2h
up to 15 people
HIGHLIGHTS
City Park with Vienna River
St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Neuer Markt
State Opera House and Ringstrasse
High-jet fountain on Schwarzenbergplatz
Sustainability means much more than environmental protection and also includes social and economic aspects. All just topics of recent history? Not at all! People have been dealing with sustainability issues for almost 2000 years, as we learn on this exciting city tour.
We start in today’s idyllic Stadtpark garden. With floods and pollution, the history of the Vienna River confronts us directly with the environmental problems of earlier times.
We continue on to Baker’s Street. Ever heard of the Schmauswaberl? Anyone who thinks the concept of food banks for rescuing food is a recent invention will be proven wrong here!
The fact that sustainability also has a financial aspect is demonstrated by the creation of the National Bank in Singerstrasse as a reaction to a serious national bankruptcy.
We look at the problems caused by inadequate cleanliness in today’s very chic Graben avenue. We are in the present day at New Market square and explore how Vienna wants to become a climate-friendly city. Just a few steps further on, we follow in the footsteps of the first hospitals in Vienna. What does this have to do with brewing beer? Wait and see!
At the State Opera House, we take a look behind the façade of the glittering Ringstrasse. Precarious working conditions and pollution were the side effects of industrialization. All the greater is our admiration for the idea of the 1st Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline at the end at the Schwarzenberg square!
