This week was my Core Course’s Long Study Tour aka traveling with my “Why Cities Matter” class to learn about new places and lifestyles. For my Urban Studies course we traveled to Vienna (and Budapest.. see next post). We were in Vienna for three days and now we’re on the way to Budapest via train.
- Vienna is most known for being the City of Music, mainly because Mozart is from and died there. However, no one knows where his remains are located.
- Blutgasse = Blood lane; which is what one of the streets we saw on a walking tour.
- People used to have three to four story deep cellars; they were ordered to close them by the government (but some still exist).
a beautiful square courtyard
- Demel Bakery ; It was the official bakery of the palace located across the street.An apprentice made a new dessert, the Sacher cake, because the main baker was sick the day the king asked for a new dessert.
- Sigmund Freud University ; I liked the architecture.
- “Startrek Library” Designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid
It has this vast atmosphere that has nooks and crannies of which it is unimaginable to think of how it was created.
“inner crannies”
- part of “playground city” a development project in Vienna
I call it playground city because the area had a slew of playgrounds that many of us enjoyed throughout the tour.
toggling on some springs
monkeying around
![thank goodness for whisper sets [ allow for playing and learning at one time ]](http://denmark.thebaileyplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/P4093594-1024x768.jpg)
thank goodness for whisper sets which allow for playing and learning at one time