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“Anyone can become an urbanaut“

The hotel room used to be a tailor shop. The breakfast room is located in a café right around the corner, the wellness and the spa can be found in a hammam nearby. “Urbanauts” is the name of the more...

A journey to the Republic of Moldova

The Republic of Moldova is possibly one of the least well known countries in Europe and while its name in German recalls the river of the same name in Prague (Czech: Vltava) or the suite more...

The Vienna Tourist Board blazes brightly

The Vienna Tourist Board embarked on the second half year ready for action. Further innovative marketing “beacons” can be expected. The fact that these beacons are effective is proved by more...

ALEX.ANDER’S - The truly different restaurant

The very name of Alex.Ander’s restaurant not far from Parliament and the Vienna City Hall suggests that a member of the computer generation was looking for more than just a hip sounding name but wanted more...

Culinary delights under the open sky

Peasants always used to eat their lunch out in the fields but with time it also became a fashion among the nobility to dine in the open air in summer. It is hardly surprising that the concept of the picnic emerged more...

Beastly good

Recreation is guaranteed at a stroll through Lainzer Tiergarten: today a nature preserve on the outskirts of the city, the former imperial hunting grounds still have a rich and diverse wildlife. And the many more...

Cool spots

Vienna is a veritable hothouse in the summer months, in the literal sense. The stones and facades store and reflect the heat so well that sometimes a cool spot is the only refuge
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The Green Belt in Russia

Last week we presented the sixth part of our series on the European Green Belt, one of the most important nature conservation areas in Europe ranging from Finland to Greece more...

Keeping cool in the heat: Part 1

No matter how delightful the world’s most beautiful cities are, and how much you like visiting them, in summer many of them can get unpleasantly hot, leaving you surrounded by magnificent buildings and more...

Cobenzl awarded Vienna Wine Prize

Victory for the City of Vienna: At the 2011 Vienna Wine Prize gala at Vienna’s City Hall at the end of June, the Pinot Noir Bellevue Reserve 2007 produced by the Cobenzl wine estate received the distinction of  more...