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Winter in Vienna

Winter all begins with the change of year, which is celebrated here with the New Year s Eve Trail through the Old City. Sparkling wine and snacks are served at stands and colossal live acts on stages. And the waltz is danced on the squares in the Old City. A real Eldorado of waltzing is then offered by the 450 balls held during the ball season in January and February.

Release time : 2020-12-14 11:23:37
source : The Vienna Tourist Board

Winter all begins with the change of year, which is celebrated here with the New Year's Eve Trail through the Old City. Sparkling wine and snacks are served at stands and colossal live acts on stages. And the waltz is danced on the squares in the Old City. A real Eldorado of waltzing is then offered by the 450 balls held during the ball season in January and February. The season gets off to an elegant start with the New Year's Ball in the Imperial Palace, and reaches its zenith with the famous Opera Ball at the end of February. The Philharmonic Ball, the Kaffeesieder Ball and the Johann Strauss Ball are other enjoyable highlights of the season. Late winter is the ideal time for the coffee house. Not only because these oases of coziness are the place to round off a shopping tour of the shopping streets in comfort. Connoisseurs have long since discovered the café as an attractive place to have breakfast - or appreciate the combination of delicious pastries and lively music in the concert-café. The Ice Dream (January to mid-March) transforms City Hall Square into an 8,500 m² ice rink that permits everything from sporty moves to popular music hits as well as convivial walks on the rinks.

Viennese winter wonderland

Tips for winter in Vienna: after Advent and its Christmas markets, attention shifts to the turn-of-the-year celebrations and the New Year's Eve Trail, dancing to the rhythm of the waltz at a ball or one of the capital's ice rinks, going to museums or simply relaxing in coffeehouses.

1 Dazzling lights, twinkling stars

During Advent, Christmas lights bathe Vienna is a sea of light, with two million individual bulbs illuminating the streets, trees and parks. Gigantic chandeliers span Graben in the old town, eye-catching red baubles are suspended above Rotenturmstrasse and many of the capital's other streets are decked out with glittering stars and fairy lights. The tree-lined Ringstrasse boulevard is lit up with

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