These are all from a lovely morning walk in the Wiener Stadtpark (Vienna City Park) before setting out on our longer exploration of the whole Schönbrunn complex. Our hotel was just next to this park, which is smack in the heart of the city. Seeing how many monuments with sculptures of Vienna’s great composers (including Schubert, below), or other artistic flourishes such as the other sculpture below — entitled “freeing the spring” (more or less) and apparently depicting two men working to remove a stone that’s blocking a well or spring — reminded me that quite aside from being for centuries an important center of power in Europe, Vienna was also / has also long been a leading center of culture for centuries. In that “spa” building shown above are frequent waltz events, the waltz being probably the form of music and dancing most closely associated with Vienna.
A (rainy) daytime view of Vienna’s Stephansdom (of you’ve seen the nighttime view in an earlier post), along with a few scenes from the plaza and adjoining streets around it on that particular afternoon.
That’s the actual Schönbrunn Palace at the bottom of the hill — and we will show more of it in future posts, I promise – but since the stroll through the grounds with autumnal foliage everywhere was so lovely, that’s the focus today :-).
I’m certainly happy that we lingered in the gardens first before approaching the actual palace at Schönbrunn. And didn’t this particular leaf times its fall well? 🙂
This is Vienna’s Anker Clock, whose 12 pairs of people are dressed to represent different phases of Viennese cultural history. A different pair parades across each hour, and at noon each day, all 12 parade across in succession – so the guide books say. It was raining so we weren’t able to stay long enough to get the full experience.
This is Stephansdom (St Stephen’s Cathedral) in the heart of Vienna…photographed at shortly past midnight yesterday (Sunday the 23rd). This would have been my first City Lights photo, except the bridge colors were so much more obviously about the lights than this one :-). Just home from a long weekend in Vienna, first trip ever – so more to come from that city’s many sights, obviously. Equally obvious is that adding a new series has messed with the nice harmony of my numbers, but such is life, eh? 🙂
A new series for a new (to me) city. The info is visible to readers in the full view, but if like my brother you haven’t yet sorted out how to do that…here’s a hint: this is a canal off the Danube. 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 