OPTIONAL TOURS

Austropa Interconvention offers guided tours during the conference for accompanying persons as well as for participants.

Historical Vienna with Schoenbrunn Palace (Bus Tour) operated by Vienna Sightseeing
Date: Thursday, September 6th, 2012 Departure: 09.15 a.m. from State Opera Duration: app. 3 hours
To provide you with a first impression of the city, we start our tour at Ringstrasse. This boulevard with an approximate length of 4 km was created in the course of the city’s first expansion in the middle of the 19th century on the area of the former Glacis. We will see buildings like the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Natural History, the City Hall, the Burgtheater, the Parliament, the University, and many more. The highlight of our excursion is a tour through Schoenbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the former Imperial House of Austria.
Price per person incl. bus ride, guide and admission fee: EUR 39,00	>> BOOK

The Third Man - in the footsteps of a movie classic (Walking Tour) CANCELLED
Date: Thursday, September 6th, 2012 Departure: 02.00 p.m. from Stadtpark Duration: app. 2 hours
Even after 50 years of his death in the sewers of Vienna, Orson Welles' Harry Lime still haunts the city. The scars of the war have long disappeared but surprisingly, most of the locations of Carol Reed's 1949 film noir classic have remained unchanged. On this exciting tour follow us through the cobbled lanes and hidden courtyards of Old Vienna that inspired author Graham Greene, see the places where Harry Lime lived, appeared, disappeared and eventually died, and learn the fascinating story of how one of the all-time greatest films was made and what Vienna was like in the days of Allied occupation, Cold War espionage and the black market.

Art Nouveau in Vienna (Bus Tour) CANCELLED
Date: Friday, September 7th, 2012 Departure: 03.00 p.m. from Congress Venue Duration: app. 3 hours
In the course of this tour we will show you some exceptionally beautiful Art Nouveau buildings. The most renowned representatives of the Art Nouveau style are the architects Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Olbrich and especially Otto Wagner (1841-1918), who ranks among Vienna’s most important and noteworthy Art Nouveau architects at the turn of the century. This excursion’s highlight is a guided tour through Church am Steinhof, an architectural masterpiece of Otto Wagner and the first church in Europe build in Modern Style.

Romantic Danube Valley – “Wachau“ (Bus Tour) CANCELLED
Date: Saturday, September 8th, 2012 Departure: 09.00 a.m. from Congress Venue Duration: app. 9 hours
We start our tour per bus to Wachau, the romantic Danube valley situated before Vienna. Our first destination is Melk, where we visit the magnificent Baroque monastery and admire the breathtaking view of the Danube. After lunch we go on a boat trip on the Danube, which takes us from Melk to Spitz. Past the picturesque town of Duernstein with its Kuenringer castle, where 800 years ago King Richard I Lionheart was held prisoner, we continue by bus to Krems. In Krems, in the course of a short walk, you will have the opportunity to take a look at the medieval town center with the Sgraffito-houses. After that, we will return to Vienna.

Unknown Underground Vienna (Walking Tour)
Date: Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 Departure: 01.30 p.m. from Michaelerplatz, in front of St. Michael's Church For further information please have a look at following website: WALKS IN VIENNA