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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
Jul 13, 2017 · Capturing Fiakers Horse carriage, 1010 Vienna. The best photo spot is the Michaelerplatz and the Heldenplatz, but you find Fiakers all over the Vienna City Center.
It is a perfect, living work of art in which the unity of horse and rider touches everyone who witnesses it. In 2015, the tradition of Classical Horsemanship and the High School of the Spanish Riding School were admitted to UNESCO’s World Heritage list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
Otto Wagner Pavilion. Otto Wagner built two station buildings for the city railway in the early 20th century. The Art Nouveau buildings represent some of the best landmarks of Wiener Jugendstil. The building in the photograph houses a documentation of the Wagner’s groundbreaking work and life (open April to end of October).
