Vienna Is In Bloom!
The city is celebrating spring – and 200 years of the Waltz King Johann Strauss. These are two good reasons to visit the Danube metropolis.
Vienna has a lot to offer. Diverse culture, safe living, plenty of sustainability: a few months ago, Vienna was – once again – named the most liveable city in the world by the renowned British magazine “Economist”. As a self-confessed fan of Vienna, I think this is at least as true for vacationers: you can store, stroll, get some fresh air, enjoy art and culture, take coffee breaks, try Sachertorte or schnitzel. Enjoyment has many faces here…
Spring in Vienna
In spring, enjoyment has prime time, so to speak – and for all the senses: the city is in bloom, thanks to winter jasmine, forsythia and fragrant snowballs, which are also wonderfully fragrant and colorful in the middle of the asphalt in the city’s parlor. That’s what you could call the First District, especially the boulevards around St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Here on Kärtnerstraße and Graben, the former stately buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries with their magnificent façades are now home to ultra-modern boutiques, typical coffee houses, souvenir stores and souvenir stores.
Everyone is in spring fever and decorates their shop windows in fresh green, pastel pink or soft yellow, decorated with flowers, butterflies and the inevitable Easter bunny. My favorite place to discover the most beautiful candles, tableware and garden accessories is Lederleitner.
Cleanliness offensive with charm
Even in the middle of the city, green is never far away: there are over 1000 parks in the city. Some are huge, like the famous Prater, others are called pocket parks, small islands of green. There are secluded benches everywhere for picnics or chilling out. There are orange garbage cans for garbage, printed with witty slogans. My favorite: “Hasta la mista, baby”! Who can resist this charming urban cleanliness campaign?
In general, the “green space”, as the areas are known, is carefully tended and cared for by the city gardeners. In the fall of 2024, they planted an impressive 640,000 tulip bulbs, carefully protecting them from frost with brushwood branches. The brushwood is removed at the start of spring. By April at the latest, the tulips will be glowing in bright orange and the classic Austrian colors of red and white. They are joined by primroses, crocuses, hyacinths and violets. The sea of flowers is completed by the sakura – the Japanese cherry blossom, a testimony to the blossoming Austrian-Japanese connection.… weiterlesen
CultureAndCream-Autorin aus München
Beauty was my first love…. oder doch Reisen? Gesundheitsthemen? Sprachen? Als Journalistin und Autorin mit der Lizenz zur Neugier kann ich alles ausleben, vor allem, seit ich mich vor 11 Jahren selbstständig machte. Zusätzlich bin ich Wirtschafts-Mediatorin und Dozentin an der Uni, was zu meinem ursprünglichen Kommunikationsstudium perfekt passt. Denn es geht es immer um Menschen – und was gibt es Spannenderes?