HOFBURG COMPLEX

Some cultural sportsmen manage to visit everything in 2 hours of the Habsburg Palace! A pity. On the program: Sissi's imperial apartments, the imperial treasure of Vienna, the Spanish riding school, the imperial treasure, the national library, the museums, etc.

Sissi Museum, Imperial Apartments and Silver Collection On the first floor, you will discover an incredible collection of Habsburg silver, porcelain and crystal. On the first floor, the Sissi museum invites you into her intimacy by exhibiting some of her toilets or her private carriage. Visit the imperial apartments, decorated in the Franz Joseph style (19th century).

The Spanish Riding School. Here the famous Spanish Lipizzaners of the court evolve. It is possible to attend the morning rides. Reservations are recommended for the shows.

Imperial Treasure of Vienna. This is the largest treasure room in the world with imperial crowns, the treasure of the Holy Roman Empire with the Imperial Crown and the Holy Lance, the treasure of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the jewels of Empress Elisabeth and the largest cut emerald in the world.

The Hofburg Chapel. Here the court musicians, Mozart, Salieri or Bruckner played. Mass sung on Sunday mornings (except in summer) by the Vienna Boys Choir, one of the oldest choirs in the world, founded in... 1498.

The ceremonial hall of the National Library. A baroque masterpiece of incomparable splendor, the former hall of the court library, with its dome, putti and statues looking up to heaven.

Augustinerkirche. One of the most important imperial court churches, with a richly decorated interior. Famous for its music during Sunday mass. It is accessed from outside the Hofburg complex.

National Library. Its reading rooms are grandiose. It houses the Papyrus Museum, the largest collection of papyrus in the world, and the Esperanto Museum.

Museums of the Neue Burg. The building houses 3 museums: the Imperial Collection of Weapons and Armor of Maximilian II (1527-1576), the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments and the Ephesos Museum, an ancient museum with Greek remains from Ephesus.

Weltmuseum Wien. One of the richest museums of ethnography in the world, with 14 rooms in a row,

The Albertina. One of the jewels of Vienna's art museums known for housing Dürer's famous Hare, among other masterpieces.

You can also go shopping in two boutiques and have a drink at the Hofburg café.