Vienna Giant Wheel
The bike tour takes us through Leopoldstadt, an important suburb of Vienna until 1850. With the centuries-old leisure paradise Prater and the oldest existing baroque garden in Vienna, the Augarten, the district located on an island of the Danube has two "green" hotspots. Many events, pieces of literature or music, sagas and legends are related to Leopoldstadt. We visit many of these places on our bikes.
DATE:
By appointment
3 hours
STARTING PLACE: Augarten (main gate)
PRICES see here.
REGISTRATION here.
Takes place from three full-paying participants onwards.
"For this forest [Prater] I would give away the Tuileries."
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Emporer of France, 1805.
View to the Vienna Ferris Wheel
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte would have liked to exchange the then Parisian Tuileries for the Vienna Prater in 1805, according to a well-known quote. Vienna and the Viennese are still proud of their world-famous Prater, whether it is the Vienna Ferris Wheel, the "Wurstelprater" or the green Prater. To date, this has many functions for the Viennese and their guests. The entertainment venues and restaurants, the Ernst Happel Stadium, the Krieau racecourse and the Lusthaus at the end of the 4 km main avenue are very well known. Less well known is the Prater cottage called quarter along the Danube Canal, the pilgrimage church Maria Grün or the oldest existing bridge in Vienna at Konstantin pond. It is important to get to know the known and unknown places in the Prater and their stories.
The bicycle is an ideal vehicle to explore the 6 km² area. The approximately three-hour round trip (including a break), starting in front of the planetarium, leads us through the main avenue, parallel to the Liliputbahn (narrow gauge railway) into the Pratercottage, to the Lusthaus, Freudenau and Maria Grün. The way back takes you past the Prater Stadium to the Krieau trotting course, through the new business university, past the exhibition center, over Ausstellungsstrasse to Kaiserwiese (Imperial meadow) and the Ferris wheel.
DATE:
By appointment
3 hours
STARTING POINT: Oswald-Thomas-Platz 1 (Zeiss Planerarium Vienna)
PRICES see here.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED here.
Takes place from three full-paying participants onwards.
Einsiedlerplatz (Margareten)
For 12 years, from 1850 to 1862, Wieden and Margareten formed a common district. To this day, the big differences between the two administrative units of Vienna are visible. The former noble palaces, the Karlskirche and the many places where famous composers are commemorated in Wieden, the "magnificent boulevard of the proletariat" and the social and economic museum in Margareten. With the bike we manage the round trip on comfortable ways.
DATE:
By appointment
3 hours
START PLACE: Karlsplatz (in front of the Karlskirche)
PRICES see here.
REGISTRATION here.
Takes place from three full-paying participants onwards.
Anton count Grassalkovich I. (monument of Maria Theresia, first from left)
Our bike tour takes us to places in Vienna's city center and the former suburbs that have a connection to personalities from Croatia. Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Ivan Meštrović and Ruđer Bošković are famous Croatians, Franz von Suppé, Leopold Kollonitsch and Anton Grassalkovich I have a connection to Croatia.
DATE:
By appointment
3 hours
STARTING PLACE: Am Hof 1
PRICES see here.
REGISTRATION here.
Takes place from three full-paying participants onwards.
Dominican monestary (facade towers)
Until 1850, the 1st district within the ring formed the urban area. The narrow streets and small squares can be discovered in many places in the modern city. The Ringstrasse, a world-famous boulevard, encircles the city centre. With our bikes we can get to know the many corners and wide avenues comfortably and without great time pressure.
DATE:
By appointment
3 hours
STARTING POINT: U4 Stadtpark (in front of station building)
PRICES see here.
REGISTRATION here.
Takes place from three full-paying participants onwards.