10:30, the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) ...
... in full trade union demonstration on May 1st.
Stroll along the Ringstrasse (Ring boulevard) where a statue of Goethe (1749-1832) ...
... and a statue of Mozart (1756 Salzburg, Vienna 1791) are close ...
... among the major historical monuments of Vienna.
Cathy, Yasmine and their corresponding Austrian student
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Neue Burg (New Wing) of the imperial Hofburg Palace
The huge imperial Hofburg Palace, a city within a city ...
... constructed and modified for centuries, ...
... once was for administer an enormous empire.
Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square) stand face to face equestrian statues of ...
... Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (Florence, 1771, Vienna 1847) ...
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... and Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736).
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One of the many courtyards of the Hofburg
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Switzerland door from 1552 connecting two courtyards
It's in a carriage that many tourists visit ...
... the historical heart of the city.
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Back on the Ringstrasse
Palace of the Parliament (or palace Epstein) ...
... under the pompompom of May 1st.
The Burgtheater
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The Rathaus (Town Hall)
Yasmine always smiling ...
Near the Rathaus ...
... the liveliness ...
... of the University and its neighborhood.
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Towers of the Votive Church (Votivkirche)
In Sigmund Freud Park we turn ...
... on the Maria-Theresien-Straße (street) ...
... passing in front of the Barracks Rossauer ...
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... to join ...
... an arm of the Danube turned into a canal (the Donaukanal) in the late nineteenth century.
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Back to the city center ...
... where many shady streets shelter little cafes ...
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Place of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
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At the center of this baroque neighborhood this cathedral has a gothic style ....
... with a roof made of glazed tiles, arranged in linear patterns, diagonally.
Here is a camlet Mozart making the pitch and ...
... Cathy and Yasmine lend themselves willingly.
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Beginning of the long and large commercial pedestrian street Kärntner Straße ...
... which in the spring sunshine and with many musardants walkers has a southern feel.
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Lunchbreak
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Back to ...
... the Opera where ...
... tranways and cars have resumed their rights to the protesters.
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2 pm, Yasmine and Cathy in front of the Opera before departing to ...
... Schönbrunn Palace a few kilometers away.
From the fourteenth century, many buildings have stood on this site.
The construction of the present castle began in 1696 but was modified by each of the Austrian emperors ...
... to finish in today's rococo style in the late eighteenth century.
As it should be, it has a large ballroom ...
... we did not hesitate to test.
In the XIXth century, Emperor Franz Joseph the 1st did the castle his summer home, spent there most of his life ...
... and died here in 1916, two years before the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Part of the Comenius team (England, France, Turkey) on the courthouse steps after the tour.
Panoramic from the castle on the outside courtyard and the main entrance.
16:30 departure of some of the Comenius teams from the castle to the airport of Vienna after ....
... many hugs and many tears.
Other teams return to Graz ... tired.
Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers. Stefan Zweig, 1942 - Source Google Books