It is unusual for us that people have free rest on the lawns in Vienna. The square is always crowded, and enough tourists and locals admire the architecture, fountains and plants, located directly on the grass.
The monument is a marble pedestal on which rises the figure of the composer, covered with gilding. In the background, an arch is made of white marble, decorated with bas-reliefs of dancing couples and classic floral ornaments.
The cafe is located in a house that impresses tourists with its murals. There are few such houses in Vienna. And although the facades are being repaired now, you can't ignore the paintings.
Hotel "Sacher" is named after the first owner - Eduard Sacher. It opened in 1876. In its rooms and halls - antique furniture, luxury furniture. Sacher Wien is also famous for its collection of paintings, but its main values are the classic Viennese Sacher Café , which serves the...
Looking at the Parliament building from the Ringstrasse, the first thing that catches your eye is the impressive fountain in front. Its distinctive feature is the statue of Athena Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, war and peace.
Who like it, and I personally liked this church the most in Vienna. There are so many architectural styles and influences intertwined in this church, from antique to Arabic, that it seems as if a multilingual choir has been frozen in the fireplace, begging God to save it from the plague.
This elegant but rather monumental composition makes you think about the variability of history, as previously the Austrian Empire was one of the leading players on the world stage, had access to the sea and ruled the destinies of European nations, not without reason called the empire.
About the Cathedral of St. Stefan has written a lot. I noticed another house in the square, the Equitable Palace. It was designed by Andreas Streit in 1887-1891. The palace is named after the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
This street is considered the most elegant and expensive in Vienna. Lots of shops and cafes. The plague column deserves a separate post, it will be. And two fountains - once just fire ponds, and now beautiful sculptures with explanatory reliefs on pedestals.
The New Burga, the youngest and most monumental part of the Hofburg, built from 1881 to 1913, houses the Museum of Ethnography and a branch of the Museum of Art History: the Ephesian Museum with Treasures of Ancient Asia Minor, the Court Hunting and Armory and a collection of ancient musical instrum...
In addition to museum activities, the area of the complex is provided for literary festivals, concerts, exhibitions of paintings. The spacious courtyard of the Museum Complex is arranged as a place of rest for citizens and guests of Vienna.
The church building itself has an unusual oval shape, and the dome is painted in an interesting emerald color. For a relatively small building, inside the temple is richly decorated with frescoes, sculptures and gilded stucco, which worked on famous artists and sculptors of the time.
The opera house itself was built in 1863-1869 and it became one of the first ceremonial houses on the recently laid Ringstrasse. The authors of the project of the then Imperial and Royal Court Opera House in the style of the French Renaissance, were architects August Sicard von Zicardsburg and Edwar...
Hofburg, with a total area of more than 250.000 m? - built haphazardly over the centuries, is one of the largest secular buildings in Europe and an impressive monument to Austrian history.
St. Stephen's Cathedral, a symbol of Vienna and the most significant Gothic building in Austria, contains countless treasures, some of which can be seen only during the tour.
Votivkirche - Church of the Promise - a neo-Gothic building on the Ringstraß e. It was built in gratitude for the failed assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph.
Mostly in Vienna, the fountains are beautiful sculptures with thin streams of water. And this fountain is the first "high" fountain, ie with a high water pressure, the jet of which creates a large area of coolness.
There are many interesting buildings in Prague with their own history, and it is difficult to single out the most beautiful of them. The house of the publisher Oleksandr Storkh on the corner of the Old Town Square is one of the most remarkable buildings in the capital.
It used to be a separate city and mostly Germans lived here. Now - the area of Prague, which has a large number of beautiful palaces. Most of them are embassies or governing bodies - the Senate, Parliament.
The first Czech savings bank was essentially a bank - and the bank required a real, large, solid building. An appropriate place was chosen for it - the corner area in the Kotze area (Prague's Old Market) - between the Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square.
The Czech Republic honors the heroes of the Three Resistances. The First Resistance was the struggle against Austria for an independent Czechoslovakia, the Second Resistance fought the Nazis, and the Third the Communists.
The building was built in 1718; the exterior design by John Fischer von Erlach was done by Matthias Bernard Brown until 1730. Reconstructions in the palace complex have occurred more than once, but its appearance since the XVIII century has not changed significantly.
Antoní n Dvoř á k is a world-famous Czech composer whose works have made his native country famous all over the world. 04.06. In 2000, on the closing day of the Prague Spring Music Festival, a sculpture of Dvorak was unveiled on Jan Palach Square.
A monument to Czechoslovak servicemen who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) of Great Britain during World War II was erected in 2014 in a small park at the foot of the hill where Prague Castle is located.