Vienna in October: Indian summer, art experience and Arabian Nightson 20. October 2015 in Always up to date: Vienna News

Vienna in October: Indian summer, art experience and Arabian Nights at Duschel Apartments

Vienna in autumn can be a wonderful, sunny, warm and golden experience – or a wet, grayish, chilly and rather unpleasant place to be. Duschel Apartments can’t guarantee perfect weather conditions for your stay, but we gladly deliver some decent ideas for any kind of weather.

Indian summer and Halloween

Golden sunbeams spot red-golden leaves, foliage softly rustles under your feet and shiny chestnuts tempt you off the track: Vienna’s Indian summer is definitely worth a walk! Although locals gave it the rather unflattering name „Altweibersommer“, which means „Old Ladies Summer“ and has something to do with long spider web strings floating through the air like the fine hair of old women.

Go for a walk in one of Vienna’s beautiful parks like Vienna Stadtpark (where the statue of Johann Strauss is covered all over in shiny gold), Augarten (the home of the Wiener Sängerknaben and Augarten Porzellan), Schönbrunn (with the famous castle and Gloriette), Belvedere Gardens (between the upper and lower castle, hosting a very interesting collection of typical Austrian Alp plants and a veritable bamboo forest) or Vienna Burggarten with its beautifully restored Orangerie (hosting a Coffeehouse, Restaurant and Bar). Take small pieces of old bread and some nuts with you: Vienna’s ducks and squirrels will give you a warm welcome!

Combine a great nature experience with a unique walk through history (a bit more on the morbid side): Discover Vienna’s historic cemeteries! You can visit Mozart’s grave on Sankt Marxer Friedhof, the grave of „Rock me Amadeus“ – Falco on Zentralfriedhof Vienna as well as many other wealthy, but rather unknown Viennese of the last centuries in their scary-but-beautiful crypts. Strolling around on Vienna Zentralfriedhof you might discover abandoned Jewish tombstones, Roma crucifixes in best neighborhood to count- and headless stone angels. Since the cemetery is huge, you can even rent a Fiaker (horse-drawn carriage) and comfortably visit the white art nouveau church with its magnificent dome (don’t miss the blue starry sky on the inside).

BTW: Halloween is quite unknown in Vienna. There is not much going on except traditionally visiting family graves with candles and flowers on Nov. 1st and 2nd. So don’t expect being invited to fancy Halloween parties except you are hosting them yourselves at Duschel Apartments.

Vienna Art Experience

Not only in case of perfect weather conditions for indoor activities:

1. In Vienna’s famous art collection Albertina Wien (located right behind Wiener Staatsoper, close to Burggarten) there is an international Edvard Munch exhibition showing his most famous pictures (including The Scream) out of the world’s most important private collection. September 25th, 2015 till January 24th, 2016 at Albertina Wien.
2. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Museum of Art-History Vienna) proudly presents GANYMED DREAMING, a brand new production by Jacqueline Kornmüller. This unique literary-musical journey will take place directly in front of the paintings and open up new vistas on old masters. Performances will take place on 21.10. / 28.10. / 4.11. / 11.11. / 18.11. / 28.11. / 2.12. / 9.12. / 16.12., each 19.00 till 22.00, doors opening at 18.15 hrs. For your ticket reservation please contact Duschel Apartments.

Insider tip: Gourmet Dinner at Kunsthistorisches Museum, every Thursday night from 6.30 to 10 p.m. Enjoy the great ambience of the huge dome and an exclusive tete-a-tete with all of the famous pieces of art and history. Reservation required, please don’t hesitate to contact Duschel Apartments.

Welcome to the Arabian Nights at Duschel Apartments! You’re not in the mood to go out at all? Suite shopping is smart, safe and super fancy: You don’t have to dress up and you don’t have to go out. Duschel Apartments gladly arrange an appointment with one of Vienna’s most renowned jeweler, who will present a literally high-carat collection of gemstones, diamonds and jewels. Exclusively for you and your family & friends – if you want to share. You don’t have to!

Wiener Wiesn, Austria’s largest festival of traditions and folk music

Traditions, folk music and the splendor of Austrian folk costumes – called “Tracht” – are the ingredients for success of Wiener Wiesn festival, taking place each year from the end of September till the mid of October at the Kaiserwiese in Vienna’s Prater. 100% vibe meets 400 hours of live music with 1900 musicians in three festival tents, four fields and the Wiesn-Fest-Village. You missed it this year? You have to be part of it next autumn! Early reservation required, please contact Duschel Apartments.