Social programme

Guided Tour through the Main Building
Friday, October 29
14:30-15:30

The University of Vienna kindly invites all interested parties to Guided Tours through the Main Building. In 1884, Emperor Franz Joseph I inaugurated the new Main Building of the University of Vienna on the Ringstraße, which had been erected by the architect Heinrich von Ferstel.

Guided city tour
Friday, October 29
16:00-18:00

Option 1: Classic Vienna
A walk right across the city centre. After passing the Greek Quarter and the Ancient University District you visit the magnificent Jesuit Church. All the walk long, romantic court yards and pictoresque lanes give you an impression of Old Vienna. You also pass the "Mozarthaus", where Wolfgang Amadeus composed "Figaros Wedding". After reaching St. Stephens square you can have a short look at the interior of St. Stephens cathedral. After crossing the pedestrian shopping areas of "Graben" and "Kohlmarkt" you will be surprised by the Imperial Palace, former residence of emperor Francis Joseph and his wife Elisabeth (Sisi). You finish the walk at Ringstrasse on the other side of the Palace.


Option 2: Vienna of Celebrities
We follow the tracks of historic personalities. Vienna has attracted them as hardly any other city over the centuries: composers, authors, physicians, inventors, painters, actors, conductors or architects. They were born, lived or died in Vienna. Some of them got to the top of their carreer in Vienna. Others at least tried to do so. We even hear about Nobel Prize winners.