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Austria (now a republic) gave back some of the evacuated horses to the Italians, but used the rest to open a new stud farm at Piber: about 220km outside Vienna in the west of the Austrian province of Styria. The Lipizzaners remained in Piber until WWII, when they relocated to Hostau in Czechoslovakia for safety reasons.
- Take a guided tour of the Spanish Riding School. The one-hour guided tour gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the school. You’ll see the baroque winter riding school, the world’s largest oval, the stables of the Lipizzan stallions and learn more about the horses and their history.
- Attend the Spanish Riding School morning exercises. Copyright Stefan Seelig, courtesy of the Spanish Riding School. The Lipizzaners’ morning exercises shows you the training of the riders and their horses in the beautiful Winter Riding School.
- See the Lipizzaner horses at a Spanish Riding School Performance in Vienna. I saw a Spanish Riding School performance in the Winter Riding School, called, “A Tribute to Vienna” with musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
- See the foals perform in the summer. In the summer, you can see a Spanish Riding School performance called “Piber meets Vienna”. Piber is the village where the stud farm is, the farm dedicated to breeding Lipizzaner horses.
Vienna’s Famous Horses. It’s impossible to imagine Vienna without them: the horses that pull the carriages in the city center, and the Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School. We paid a visit to the horses at home, and learned about their everyday lives. Carriage horses are early risers. Their working day starts at 7am, in the ...
- Michaelerplatz 1 (Besucherzentrum/Visitor Center), Vienna, 1010
- 01 5339031
Jul 10, 2018 · Going back to Roman times, Lipizzaner Stallions are the best of all horses, a war machine of sorts, designed for military precision, the perfect blend of strength and grace. The Nazi’s had a way of collecting the most exotic animals, best wine, and most exquisite art. The Nazi’s were obsessed with the horses and went to all means to capture ...
Spanish Riding School. Levade, courbette & capriole are classical jumps performed by the Lipizzaner stallions, at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. The traditions of this haute école of classic equestrianism have been passed down by word of mouth for more than 400 years. Once these intelligent white stallions have completed their training ...
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But notably imperial stables. As such, the Stallburg remains one of Vienna’s few surviving Renaissance buildings: a 16th-century bastion sandwiched between Baroque and Rococo townhouses and the Hofburg palace complex. The building appeared in the 1560s as a four-sided arcade design surrounding a courtyard, though the location had already been ...
