FOOD AND CLOTHING CULTURE

Vienna and Melbourne being among the 2 most liveable cities in the world. They have many commonalities but are very much different on their food and clothing culture.

Vienna being only famous for Hungarian, Bohemian Jewish Italian and French cuisine. Thus, one can easily say that most of the items in menu are brought by letter ‘S’ like small goods, schnitzel, sausages, strudel, Sacher torte.

Melbourne is famous as a cosmopolitan city and hence have cuisine from different parts of the world. North and North-east side is famous for Vietnamese, Italian, Middle eastern and Spanish. Whereas South and south-east side is famous for Indian, Sri Lankan and Chinese cuisine.

Myself being not a much lover of non-vegetarian food gets a culture shock when I explore that in Vienna there is not much option for vegetarians, they can have only few things like breads, fruits, croissants and few other items. Whereas compared to my home country Melbourne there is a huge variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food because of itself being the cosmopolitan city.

Related image — National Dish Wiener Schnitzel Of Austria

More Information on Vienna food:- http://www.foodandtravel.com.au/austria/eating-in-vienna

Image result for all cuisine in melbourne — Different cuisine in Melbourne

More Information on Melbourne food:- https://blog.gourmettravellergiftcard.com.au/guide-melbournes-cultural-food-hubs/

The second main difference between these 2 cities is the clothing culture. In Vienna the Clothing wear is very small, we can see womens wearing the ‘dirndl’ which consists of close fitting bodice combined with different colours of apron. The hats are costly and elaborate. And Men’s wear ‘Lederhosen’ which is knee-length trouser or short pants made from leather and worn with rustic shoes with woollen socks.

More information on Vienna clothing:- https://www.aboutvienna.org/culture/traditional_fashion.php

Whereas in Melbourne the clothing fashion is way more vast and different, people wear clothes in a way to represent their individuality. Most famous is Black colour and long winter coats. As being cosmopolitan city it represent many different people and thus many different clothing fashion.

Image result for melbourne clothing — Melbourne Clothing

More Information on Melbourne Clothing:- https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-06-01/street-style-in-melbourne-australia-the-one-thing-everyone-wears

While exploring about Vienna it gives me culture confusion that is it many people wear traditional clothes or do they also wear normal formal clothes during parties.

-Aman

THE FAMOUS MOZART SHOW

Vienna popularly known for its classical music has a huge following of music and is known as capital state of music. Classical music and Vienna today are very synonymous because city being the hub of music since 19th century.

One of the famous music show that is held in Vienna is Dinner + Vienna Mozart Orchestra show. In this show there is 3 course menu including a glass of wine, One golden collection CD of Vienna Mozart Orchestra and a Fiaker Drive.

Image result for Vienna Mozart Orchestra — Vienna Mozart Orchestra

Image result for fiaker drive — Fiaker Drive

There are 2 types of reviews for every event good and bad. There are many good reviews by saying that “good orchestra”, “good hospitality” and many more. But, there are bad reviews as well such as “during the time of entrance they line up every guest and open only 3 doors that too no ropes along them, where people all rush and create chaos near the door”. “Secondly no seat number allotted to guest on tickets, seating is first come first basis”.

Myself being very good in management skill love to do arrangement for such big events and make them successful. I would personally first meet all the other organisers of the event one day before the event and discuss all the important management points.

I would increase the number of staff members on the entrance gate and ask them to assist all the guest in proper section wise seating, which means the section which is in front all the guest of that section should on door 1 and whereas section C which is the last section that sections guest should be at gate 3, I would also give seat numbers to guest so that it is easy for them to find their allocated seat and sit according to that.

I would recommend the team of organisers to adapt this style of section wise doors for guest so that their is no chaos and the event is more successful with all guest being happy by attending the event.

By this way event will be successful and tourist can book ticket on the link below.

https://www.viennaconcerts.com/eventinfo/Restaurant-Bristol-Musikverein-Brahms-Hall-Dinner-+-Vienna-Mozart-Orchestra-10-May-2019/69137

-Aman

THE ESSENCE OF VIENNA

Vienna is popularly known around the world for best city in architecture. With many famous architecture site, one of its famous is Schönbrunn Palace. This Palace is declared as UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE in 1996.This is Austria’s most significant cultural monument.

Schönbrunn Palace has served as the summer home for Habsburgs. Considering history of this Palace tells us that this palace creation can be attributed to Emperor Leopold I. This Palace being in focus and court and political life has hosted many Europe’s leading statesmen. It’s ownership was given to The Republic of Austria in 1918 at the end of the monarchy.

Image result for schonbrunn palace — Schönbrunn Palace

There are 1441 rooms in the palace and only 45 of them are allowed for visitors (set as tourist attraction). There is uniqueness in every room, among one room called “MILLIONS ROOM“, with Palisander wood panelling the whole room is covered beautifully.

Outside the palace there are beautiful pieces of gardens known as Schönbrunn Gardens. its a large area with 1.2 kilometre in west to east and 1 kilometre in north to south. There are 8 manicured, symmetrical gardens known as Crown Prince Garden.

There is a beautiful lawn leading the way towards the Gloriette, which is crowned with mighty eagle perched on the top of globe. From here you have beautiful view of the palace.

If visitor wants to explore more of it you will find the amazing architecture work called The Palm House. It was the last one of its type in Continental Europe.

Image result for palm house — The Schönbrunn Palm House

Around 8 million people come as tourist to see this attraction Schönbrunn Palace. This tourist attraction is a must visit place.

-Aman

Exploring the STREET ART

Street art is one of the finest style of art that people make on outside buildings, roads or even the public places such as train stations etc. You will see everything from stencils, pieces, characters, to art on big walls. Some of these arts are made by international professional artist and some are by local artist with interesting background. Each art work has its own importance and meaning, such as some work carry artistic reference, political, social and many with personal meaning.

This beautiful art work called Wiener Schmetterlinge (Viennese Butterflies) made by Mantra. The French artist who had made this shows his art with awesome and beautiful street art (Mural) in Vienna, Austria. This art work was made for ‘The Calle Libre Festival’ popular in Vienna for street art.

The Calle Libre Festival

The Calle Libre Festival one of the most famous festivals in Vienna. It brings todays best form of art and graffiti together for urban aesthetics that are beautifully curated on the walls of the city. This event give people chance to engage with artist from Latin America and Austria freely and see their work live and attend their exhibitions. This festival was started in 2014 with great artist work and has been still continued every year and they have attracted over 16000 people over these year. Their main motive is to tell the audience that how important the street art is through its nature and potential.

As you see in the above video the event includes opening night, workshops, exhibition and Urban Art Guided Tour (UAT which cost 10€). And after that there is block party (with drinks, food and music). This event select the 10 best artist from the world to show their live paintings.

5 Best Places for Street Art in Vienna

Some more from The Calle Libre, tourist must plan their trip in such a way to attend the festival.

-Aman

The Famous Monument of Vienna

Johann Strauss was born in a catholic family in St Ulrich near Vienna on 25 October 1825. His father Johann Strauss 1 was also a composer, and thus wanted his son to become banker and not a musician, but Johann Strauss secretly studied violin.

Johann Strauss the famous Austrian composer of light music (particularly dance music and operettas). He had composed 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and many other type of dance music. He was also known as ‘The Waltz King’. Some of his most famous works include The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna woods and many more.

Johann Strauss made his amazing debut at Dommayer casino in October 1844. Like many other artist Johann Strauss career also started with struggle but he soon overcome this struggle by performing away from home.

Image result for Johann Strauss Monument — Statue of the Waltz King Johann Strauss in Stadtpark, Vienna

This is Vienna most eye catching monument and this monument is most photographed. It is located on the entrance of the Stadtpark. It is made up of gold and was set up in 1921. He died on 3 June 1899 in Vienna.

Johann Strauss music is still continued by people and thus there are Strauss music events. These are recommended only for tourist to go and listen and enjoy. To listen the famous Strauss music you have to visit for New year’s concert. And at other time the famous is Eine Nacht in Venedig (” A night in Venice “). The tickets and timing for the show can be checked from the following link.

https://www.viennaticketoffice.com/walzer_en.php

Since Johann Strauss is the most famous person in Vienna for music there are many monuments for tourist to see, like, Johann Strauss Apartment, Museum of the Strauss Dynasty, Johann Strauss Exhibition At Haus Der Musik, Stadtpark, Strauss music events. For more information click on the link below.

https://www.vienna-unwrapped.com/johann-strauss/

Tourist must go to any one of these places to see Johann Strauss monument. They are really very nice.

-Aman