![]() Vienna hosts many remarkably high-quality ice cream parlours, so fill a cone or cup with your choice of flavours. ![]() The local ice cream season begins at the end of March, and we’re not talking about lollipops in the freezer aisle of the supermarket. It’s a bit of a secret and off the usual tourist trails. They’ve turned it into a landscaped botanical gardens, with a palm house and a fair few birds and animals in there, too. If that sounds relatively uninspiring, it’s actually quite beautiful. Hirschstetten: part of the city’s horticultural nursery complex.The Cobenzl city farm: just as it says on the label.Several protected or private areas usually open up in full to the public end of March. You’ll see these as you pass through the usual sightseeing areas, anyway Of course, don’t forget the sculpted gardens attached to the various palaces, too, such as at Schönbrunn, Belvedere or the Volksgarten next to the Hofburg palace.The Prater park with its 11km hiking trail that starts and ends in an area rich with restaurants and entertainments.The Stadtpark park in the centre, with its musician memorials (look for Strauss, in particular).The Vienna Woods – lots of cycle paths and hiking trails through the hills and forests that surround Vienna’s west.The Lainzer Tiergarten – an extensive nature protection area with wild boar and more (the lovely Hermesvilla is here, once a summerhouse for Empress Elisabeth).If you want to enjoy the fresh green on the trees and/or fruit tree blossom, then head for places like: Unlike in March, you’re more likely to find spring flowers peeping up from Vienna’s numerous parks and gardens in April (and enough sun to enjoy them). The (free) Electric Spring electronic music festival took a break recently, but will perhaps return at some point with its wide mix of styles and performers across open-air and indoor venues at the MuseumsQuartier.The wean hean festival celebrates the Viennese song tradition (2024 dates TBA).The Gemischter Satz festival at the Konzerthaus venue combines one of Vienna’s notable wine products with classical music and more (2024 dates TBA).The Vienna Blues Spring normally continues throughout April and features performances from both local and international musicians…with a focus on (guess?) blues.The Vienna concert season is in full swing in April, of course, but if you fancy something a little different… The Fantasy Con (2024 dates TBA) is a smaller event with an artist alley, readings, music and similar.Vienna COMIX (2024 dates TBA) is a fair and convention covering comics in their widest sense with, for example, cosplay and plenty of Star Wars, too.All three are lovely, but Schönbrunn has perhaps the most glorious setting in the courtyard of the huge Habsburg palace.įor another kind of open-air market featuring small-scale designers and producers, try WAMP (2024 date TBA), which sets up store outside the MuseumsQuartier and normally has its first outing in April. The main venues are Schönbrunn, the Freyung and Am Hof. This includes more decorative eggs than you can lay in a century and enough Austrian delicacies to keep your cholesterol and sugar levels high throughout your stay. The markets offer a colourful mix of arts, crafts, food, and drink. They tend to close as soon as Easter is over, but you might be lucky and find one or two still open around April 1st or 2nd. Most importantly, the season brings the Easter markets in 2024, these should begin opening in mid-March. With Easter falling in late March in 2024, the chances of bumping into seasonal holiday activities are relatively low this year.Įaster in Vienna does not have the same impact on the city as the Advent period, but it has its traditions.
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