When was each Viennese legend born, and what lies behind it?
3 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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Vienna's legends accompany buildings and corners that can look different once you know the tale. This theme asks when each story appeared and how it relates to events. The walks keep the enjoyment of hearing a mystery while making a clear distinction between documented history and the traditions the city has maintained.
In “From Judenplatz to Café Central”: The pagan who fires and the stories of sanctuary at the Freyung bring legend into the squares of Vienna's old centre.
In “Legends of Old Vienna”: Vienna's legends told for what they are, with the date someone first wrote them down: the basilisk in the well, dear Augustin and the plague pit, the church "of the year 740", the man wrongly credited with coffee, the Toothache Christ and the Devil's nail-studded trunk.
In “The Prater”: You walk up Praterstraße to the flat where Johann Strauss the younger wrote The Blue Danube, which had its premiere in an empty swimming pool, without him and without much success.
Choose from 3 independent walks in Vienna. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Vienna's legends told for what they are, with the date someone first wrote them down: the basilisk in the well, dear Augustin and the plague pit, the church "of the year 740", the man wrongly credited with coffee, the Toothache Christ and the Devil's nail-studded trunk.
The pagan who fires and the stories of sanctuary at the Freyung bring legend into the squares of Vienna's old centre.
You walk up Praterstraße to the flat where Johann Strauss the younger wrote The Blue Danube, which had its premiere in an empty swimming pool, without him and without much success.
The big squares can make you feel you ought to hurry. Vienna rewards looking at façades and allowing a proper pause; combine its compact old centre with transport when changing areas.
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