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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.
- Michaelerplatz 1 (Besucherzentrum/Visitor Center), Vienna, 1010
- 01 5339031
Jul 10, 2018 · When The Perfect Horse needed rescue, a daring U.S. rescue mission saved the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis. Today, the horse’s freedom is due to the brave people who loved these horses. The Lipizzaner Stallions are an Austrian treasure from the bygone Romain times in Austria and the Hapsburg Reign.
Visiting Vienna. The Stallburg imperial stables. You’d think a 16th-century stable might quickly reach the end of its working life. Not if you’re the Stallburg, a large Renaissance stable complex still providing a home for the Lipizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School. Constructed in the 1560s. Continuously in use as stables since then.
The Lipizzan horses, Europe’s oldest domesticated breed of horse, take their name from an Imperial stud, which was located near Trieste. The Spanish Riding School is the only institution in the world which has practised classical equitation in the tradition of the haute école since the Renaissance.
Dec 22, 2023 · Visit the Historic Hofburg. 3. Kunsthistorisches Museum and Maria-Theresien-Platz. 4. A Baroque Masterpiece: Belvedere Palace. 5. Take the Kids to Vienna Zoo (Tiergarten Schönbrunn) 6. Get Your Art Fix at the Albertina Museum & Albertina Modern. 7. The Vienna State Opera House. 8. See St. Stephen's Cathedral. 9.
