Vienna, Austria: Waltzing in Vienna
More info about travel to Vienna: Vienna's parks have been filled with the sound of music for centuries. In the late 1800s, Johann Strauss, the waltz king himself, directed wildly popular concerts. Today, the tradition continues to the delight of music lovers from around the world. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit
OneMinute - Vienna, Austria
In this video you'll experience Vienna in just one minute.
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. In 2010 I lived in this beautiful city for a period of several months.
This video includes many famous buildings, including the Hofburg, Schönbrunn Palace and the Austrian Parliament.
Vienna is a great city to live in because there's much to see: From Gothic St. Stephen's Cathedral to the Imperial Palace to the Art Nouveau splendor of the Secession, from the magnificent baroque palace Schönbrunn to the Museum of Fine Arts to modern architecture at the MuseumsQuartier. Record-breaking: In Vienna, there are over 27 castles and more than 150 palaces.
Vienna is nicknamed City of Dreams because of the many composers who lived in this city. Also, the historical architecture is striking. Wander along narrow, medieval alleyways or across imperial squares, view Schönbrunn Palace or the Imperial Palace (Hofburg) in the footsteps of Sissi and Emperor Franz Josef, and marvel at the majestic architecture along the Ring boulevard. Be inspired by an atmosphere steeped in history - which also boasts the comforts and infrastructure of a modern city!
Vienna Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof)
One of our strangest places where we get loaded..
About 5 trucks from our Company are driving around 45 Cemetery's around Vienna and collecting foliage, wreaths and flowers from the graves..
The Vienna Central Cemetery is the biggest of them..
Famous people are buried here:
Wolf Albach-Retty (1906--1967), Austrian actor
Rudolf von Alt (1812--1905), painter
Franz Antel (1913--2007), film director, writer and producer
Leon Askin (1907--2005), actor
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770--1827), composer
Erna Berger (1900--1990), opera singer
Theodor Billroth (1829--1894), surgeon
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844--1906), physicist/mathematician
Max Böhm (1916--1982), actor
Johannes Brahms (1833--1897), composer
Ignaz Brüll (1846--1907), composer
Carl Czerny (1791--1857), piano teacher and composer
Elfi von Dassanowsky (1924--2007), singer and film producer
Otto Erich Deutsch (1883--1967), musicologist
Anton Dominik Fernkorn (1813--1878), sculptor
Leopold Figl (1902--1965), statesman
Carl von Ghega (1802--1860), engineer
Alexander Girardi (1850--1918), actor
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714--1787), composer
Karl Goldmark (1830--1915), composer
Baron Theophil von Hansen (1813--1891), architect
Johann von Herbeck (1831--1877), composer
Falco civil name Johann (Hans) Hölzel (1957--1998), rock singer
Curd Jürgens (1912--1982), actor
Thomas Klestil (1932--2004), Austrian president (1992--2004)
Friedrich Carl Knauer (1850--1926), zoologist
Bruno Kreisky (1911--1990), statesman
Karl Kraus (1874--1936), writer
Joseph Lanner (1801--1843), composer
Lotte Lehmann (1888--1976), opera singer
György Ligeti (1923--2006), composer
Theo Lingen (1903--1978), actor/director
Guido von List (1848--1919) 19th-century mystic Germanic and Runic revivalist
Adolf Loos (1870--1933), architect
Max Lorenz (1901--1975), German tenor
Karl Lueger (1844--1910), politician
Hans Moser (1880--1964), actor
Siegfried Marcus (1831--1898), automobile pioneer
Karl Millöcker (1842--1899), composer
Karl Eugen Neumann (1865--1915), European pioneer of Buddhism
Walter Nowotny (1920--1944), World War II Luftwaffe pilot
Helene Odilon (1865--1939), actor
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885--1967), film director
Clemens von Pirquet (1874--1929), scientist and pediatrician
Paula von Preradović (1887--1951), writer
Helmut Qualtinger (1928--1986), actor
Julius Raab (1891--1964), statesman
Geli Raubal (1908--1931), Hitler's niece and rumoured lover
Karl Renner (1870--1950), statesman
Richard Réti (1889--1929), chess grandmaster
Albert Salomon von Rothschild (1844--1911), financier
Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild (1836--1905), financier
Léonie Rysanek (1926--1998), opera singer
Antonio Salieri (1750--1825), composer
Franz Schmidt (1874--1939), composer
Arthur Schnitzler (1862--1931), writer
Arnold Schoenberg (1874--1951), composer
Franz Schubert (1797--1828), composer
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897--2000), architect
David Schwarz (1852--1897) aviation pioneer
Alma Seidler (1899--1977), actress
Matthias Sindelar (1903--1939), footballer
Robert Stolz (1880--1975), composer
Eduard Strauss (1835--1916), composer
Johann Strauss I (1804--1849), composer
Johann Strauss II (1825--1899), composer
Josef Strauss (1827--1870), composer
Franz von Suppé (1819--1895), composer
Friedrich Torberg (1908--1979), writer
Kurt Waldheim (1918--2007), UN Secretary-General, Austrian president
Franz Werfel (1890--1945), poet
Anton Wildgans (1881--1932), poet
Hugo Wolf (1860--1903), composer
Fritz Wotruba (1907--1975), sculptor
Joe Zawinul (1932--2007), keyboardist
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871--1942), composer