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The Lesser Known Cementeries Free Walking Tour of Vienna

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Vienna

Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes

Languages: Russian

Guru: Spricht

Registered on 4 February 2019

Im composer and pianist, working in field of modern opera (http://novaopera.com.ua/), and student of Vienna Music University. My hobby and passion is to organise special tours to Vienna cemeteries for our guests, to show with special description the rest places of great composers, like Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, Schönberg, Ligeti and many more.

Free reservation and cancellation

Pay-what-you-want tour, no set price, reservation and cancellation are free

Tour description

We will take the bus number 74, to follow Mozart funeral way from Stubentor to Sankt-Marx Friedhof - the unique XVIIIct. cemetery with unmarked Mozarts Grave, and than with the tram 71 continue our travel to Central Vienna Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof).

At the central cemetery we will visit such unique object, as:

"musicians group" with several gravestones of great composers,

baroque grave stones "for sale",

modern gravestones of Vienesse Actionist Artists,

monument for Unknown Artist

Cemetery of soviet soldgiers

Cemetery of Austrian bishops

old jewish cemetery,

St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery Church - majestic art nouveau church with unique acoustic (5sec (!!!) reverberation lenth

And many more.

At the of these places we will have a discussion about composers/artists and their live/creations in social and historical Viennese context.

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:

Stubenring 24 1010 Wien Austria

I will be standing on the bus station STUBENTOR of the Bus 74a, just in front of a big Karl Lueger Monument

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end the amount they consider appropriate (amounts usually range from €15 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).