Austria-Vienna (Part 2)

Austria-Vienna (Part 2)

Woke up early in the morning and headed to The Naschmarkt, it's basically a big open market where there are lots of stuff that are for sales ranging from clothes to 2nd hand goods and food. Spent about 1 hour plus walking through the whole market, another thing about this market is that it is only open during the weekends.

Some pictures of The Naschmarkt


Afterwhich, I went to Gasometer and the building has quite a history behind it. The gasometer were used from 1899 to 1984 as gas storage tanks. After the changeover from town gas to natural gas they were no longer used and were shut down. But after some renovations, each gasometer now is divided into several zones for living, shopping and entertainment with the historic outside wall that was conserved. 


Gasometer 




MacDonald's at Gasometer



Then I start on my Musician Hunt and started with Mozart who is resting in St. Marx Cemetery. Got slightly lost but manage to find this quiet cemetery.


St Marx Cemetery



Grave of Mozart




Me and Mozart



After that, I went over to Zentralfriedhof which is the central cemetery of Vienna where the other famous musicians were buried.


Main Gate of Zentralfriedhof 



Brams



Memorial of Mozart



Beethovan



There was this beautiful church in the center of the cemetery



Inside of the church



Caught this tombstone for me 



After spending some time looking around, I headed to a more cheerful and noisy place called the Prater, the Prater is basically a theme park.


Pictures of Prater



The Giant Ferris Wheel



The Tallest ride in Prater



When to the United Nation Building which is pretty close to Prater but I still do have to take the metro to get there.


Austria Center next to the UN Building



Building of UN




I head towards to main city and explore further before heading to a strings recital. Walked around and saw the house of the Vienna Mozart Orchestra.



There are also something like those hollywood star that has their name and hand prints...



Then there is the Opera House



Did I mention before that you can drive cool automobile...check this out~



Random shots in the City



Augustinian Friars' Church




Pinocchio anyone?



Finally it was time for the recital



The small hall for the recital, Mozart used to work in this room 



Program Sheet
 


It was a nice 1 hour recital before meet Xiaoman who brought me out for dinner and we had Fiorino



Dinner was awesomely good...and it was time to bid farewell to Xiaoman as she is leaving to a place for her performance ( she is studying as a opera artist)


Me and Xiaoman before bidding her good bye...

Austria-Vienna (Part 1)

Austria-Vienna (Part 1)

I was eager to reach Vienna as I have a high school friend studying there named Xiaoman and it has been like 6 years since I last saw her.

Finally the train arrived at Vienna :)


At the train station


Arrived at a 3star hotel that my friend booked


Met Xiaoman for dinner and off to bed cause tomorrow it will a long day of exploring Vienna :)

The next day, my first destination was Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral)



Inside of the church, there are like tons of tourist but the church was big enough to house everyone




Memorial that commemorates the Austrian Jews killed in the Holocaust 




Pass by a building that looks like a castle or maybe Hogwarts? 


The Pestsäule (the far end statue) on Graben  street that was erected after a huge epidermic by Emperor Leopold I 



Next I went to the humongous Hofburg Palace, it is one of the biggest palace I have been and it was spectacular, just look at the amount of visitors and you will know :)



Ticket Sellers dressed like Mozart outside the Hofburg Palace selling tickets for Mozart concert.



The other side of the Hofburg Palace



The Vienna Parliament



Outside the Parliament



Walked further and reached the Rathaus, Vienna's City Hall



Next is the Votivkirche, where it was constructed for the rescue of an Emperor

read more about the history here


I love Europe because you can enjoy the sun anywhere



.......and you can drive this kind of automobile :)



Next I went to this awesome looking church called Karlskirche which is the largest Baroque cathedral north of the Alps



Another shot from another angle



When I was at Karlskriche, there was this festival going on but I have no idea was it was in German and Austrians were dressed in their traditional costume dancing



Lastly, I went to the Soviet Victory Monument near the church and caught this awesome shot :) 



Don't you just love Vienna? I fell in love with this place together with the rich music history this place has...


More to come...stay tune :)