Hardship Fund Phase 2 – Real Help for EPUs?
I was dated the day before yesterday ORF to the hardship fund 2 interviewed for EPUs. Fortunately, I’m with the criteria in both the first and the second phase. However, that’s just enough to cover my living expenses. And it shouldn’t depend on luck that the numbers in the year and month used for the […]
Easter greetings from Vienna
Dear friends and customers of artemezzo, With our Easter greetings 2020, we wish you above all good health and, despite the current and unfamiliar situation, a happy Easter! We make the most of the home office time and work hard on new programs for city tours in Vienna and on online training courses for tourism […]
Update on COVID-19
Dear artemezzo customers, the current situation is not easy for all of us. Unfortunately, due to the curfew, we cannot show you the springtime Vienna with its beautiful young, green and blooming gardens and squares. But the health of our guests comes first. We therefore stand with the official bodies in contact and have our […]
FREE TOURS THROUGH VIENNA | by artemezzo?
A ghost has been haunted in Vienna for some time – the ghost of free tours, advertised by the City of Vienna itself. Hundreds of protests were loud, the Chamber of Commerce opposed it, the many independent Austria Guides went on the barricades, some even report assaults on the providers. So what speaks against city […]
JOSEPH HAYDN | A HEADLESS VIENNESE
Joseph Haydn was probably the most headless Viennese of all time. No, the composing genius did not lose his head during his lifetime, but it did afterwards. At his simple burial in Meidling in 1809, everything was still where it should be. Due to Franz Joseph Gall’s popular skull theory at the time, however, the […]
FELIX SALTEN | BAMBI AND THE SEX
Still young and inexperienced, Bambi is instructed by his mother about the secrets and dangers of the forest, which tries to prevent him from making a heady start in life. The Austrian writer Felix Salten created this work, but was not generally averse to the impetuosity: he is also the author of the famous novel […]
VOLKSGARTEN VIENNA | THE AWAKENING OF THE ROSES
There is hardly a more beautiful, more uplifting place than the Volksgarten Vienna. A walk in the middle of the city, past Sisi and the Emperor’s roses, from the Hofburg to the Burgtheater, a daily short vacation in a picturesque setting. And soon it will be that time again: the awakening of the roses is […]
THE BEERINGER | VIENNA BEER BELL
Since the Middle Ages, the curfew of inns in Vienna has been indicated by the ringing of the beer bell from the Stephansturm. The meanings and names of the bells of St. Stephan are generally exciting and original. In the northern Heidenturm, which was walled up in good time, the “council bell” of 1453, the […]
THE CUBE | A SOCIAL PROJECT
The sausage stand is a Viennese institution. This facility was already conceived during the k .uk monarchy to secure an income for war invalids. Originally it was a mobile sales booth or Food stalls ; Only in the 1960s were fixed stands allowed in Vienna. Today, the Käsekrainer, invented in Austria, is still a best […]
WIENER AUSTER | VERY DESIRED
The Viennese oyster is less a culinary delicacy than a popular position in sexual relations, which enjoyed great popularity in Vienna around 1840. Animated by artistic representations of the same, the position in the Viennese brothels supposedly became the most popular service in this trade at that time. Is that still the case? The 10,000 […]
BOOK TIP | WHY DOES THE SCHANI EXTEND THE GARDEN IN VIENNA?
On March 23, the time had finally come: Katharina Trost and Reza Sarkari presented their first Vienna book and we were allowed to be there. Why does the Schani carry out the garden? The wonderful title of the book clearly reveals what to expect: exciting and amusing anecdotes answer 100 questions about Vienna that you […]
THE VIENNA TOWN HALL MAN | HE SAGGES
The standard bearer with shoe size 80 should be a symbol of the citizens. The town hall tower is constantly in motion, so the town hall man sways by up to 25 cm in a storm. But precautions have been taken: a 16 cm thick and 8 m long rod made of Bessemer steel leads […]
NATURAL HISTORICAL MUSEUM VIENNA
The heart of the collections was once around 30,000 objects bought by Emperor Franz I Stephan of Lorraine. He acquired it in 1750 from the Florentine Johann Ritter von Baillou – the largest collection of natural objects at the time. The collection is growing steadily. Soon the Hofburg was no longer enough to accommodate the […]
BLOGGER ON TOUR | IN VIENNA
Together with the hotel “Das Capri” and “Green Pearls”, artemezzo invited bloggers from Germany and Austria to an unusual insider tour in Vienna’s 2nd district today. On the trail of Viennese hotspots in terms of lifestyle and sustainability, we undertook a varied foray to the known and unknown locations of Leopoldstadt. We started with a […]
GRAVE SYMPHOS | ON THE LINE
In the Josephine era, grave nymphs were jokingly called prostitutes who went about their business around the Wiener Graben, which is now a central shopping street in Vienna. In order to order the “territory” of the street whores, the responsible office issued chalk lines that were supposed to bring order to the nocturnal activity. This […]
JOSEF STRAUSS | FIRE RESISTANT! POLKA
Fireproof! was the slogan with which Wertheim advertised its safes. There were spectacular trials by fire. Safes were placed on large pyres; the contents survived the fire intact and could be demonstrated to the astonished crowd. In 1857 such a rehearsal took place in Constantinople in the presence of the sultan. In February 1869 the […]
DISPUTE | SACHERTORTE
The Café Demel and the Hotel Sacher argued for a long time about the legal name of the Sachertorte. An agreement was only reached after seven years: The “Original Sacher-Torte” was reserved for the Hotel Sacher, while Demel decorated his cake with a triangular seal with the inscription “Eduard Sacher-Torte”. In the meantime, the latter, […]
MUSEUM & CASTLE BELVEDERE VIENNA
Belvedere Palace was built by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt for Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) in the Landstrasse district. A beautiful garden with an impressive fountain connects the Upper Belvedere with the Lower Belvedere. On May 15, 1955, the Austrian State Treaty was signed in the Upper Belvedere. The collection of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere […]
SISI | THE COOK IS HERE
Many rumors have grown up about the idiosyncratic personality and the depression of Empress Elisabeth, better known to many as Sisi or Sissi – this is where the spirits argue. Difficulties in adjusting at court are reported as well as possible affairs or their urge for freedom. Perhaps all of this has a bit to […]
VIENNA HOFBURG
The start of construction of the original castle can be expected as early as the 13th century under the Babenbergs by King Rudolf I. Duke Leopold VI probably laid the foundation stone. The Bohemian King Ottokar II Premysl expanded the Hofburg for the first time. In the middle of the 16th century, Emperor Ferdinant I […]