Vienna
New Vienna Luxury Hotel To Be Ritz-Carlton Instead Of Shangri-La
Ritz-Carlton will operate a new 202-room luxury hotel situated in two historic palaces on Vienna’s Schubertring that was originally scheduled to open earlier this year as the Shangri-La chain’s first hotel in Austria. It will be the Ritz-Carlton’s first hotel in Austria as well.
In February of this year, two months before the planned opening and after over 100 employees had been hired, Shangri-La withdrew from the project.
The developer, BAI (Bauträger …
Air France Establishes Toulouse Hub
Air France will double its flight schedule from Toulouse, turning the city into an alternate hub starting in April. Destinations will include Berlin, Prague, and Vienna.
The number of cities served by the Toulouse hub will more than double to 28. In October, the airline established a hub in Marseille and it will add six routes out of Nice in April.
Hilton Vienna Review, Austria
The Stadtpark, which opened in 1862, was the first public park in Vienna and is frequented by tourists and Viennese alike. It is at the edge of the First District, known as the Innere Stadt, and it has always been one of my favorite places, in part because, when I was little, my parents allowed me to roam the park freely, knowing I would be safe amongst the statues …
What’s Doing in Bratislava, Slovakia
Bratislava, known as Preßburg prior to 1919, is the capital of Slovakia and straddles the Danube River at a strategic crossroads between the three main capital cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest, Prague, and Vienna. With a population of ca. 431,000, it is the country’s largest city and is the only capital city in the world that borders two other nations, namely Austria and Hungary.
Bratislava became the capital of Slovakia …
Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall Review
Last week’s visit by the Wiener Philharmoniker, as the Vienna Philharmonic prefers to be called, was unusual in several respects.
It was the vaunted ensemble’s second visit to New York in 2010 (for the past few years, the orchestra has arrived at the beginning of the year). There were four concerts this time (usually there are three). The first two were conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustavo Dudamel …
Seasonal Restaurant & Weinbar, New York
One block from Carnegie Hall in New York, just visited by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic), is the Seasonal Restaurant & Weinbar. Seasonal provides a year-round taste of Vienna and is representative of the new generation of Viennese restaurants in Austria and elsewhere that have moved away from the formal, dark, and gilded Habsburg era style to elegant and casual dining.
There is ample reason to go to Seasonal for the …
