Recorrido a pie por el Art Nouveau de Viena





Descripción
Embárquese en una historia de 2,5 horas, un académico dirigió un recorrido por las estaciones de metro Art Nouveau de Viena y los edificios icónicos del Art Nouveau mientras aprende sobre los elementos de diseño, la filosofía política y estética del elegante estilo de principios de siglo.
Opciones de la excursión
Itinerario
Comenzando en el hermoso pabellón en Karlsplatz, sentamos las bases para nuestra discusión visitando el pequeño Museo Wagner.
Desde aquí caminamos hasta la estación Stadtpark, la mejor conservada de las estaciones de metro originales aún en uso. Aquí comenzaremos a profundizar en algunos de los elementos de diseño. Una de las características más notables de esta estación es el cauce artificial contiguo construido para el pequeño río de Viena, ya que la vía fluvial necesitaba ser recanalizada cuando se construyó el tren de la ciudad y uno de los principales problemas era cómo integrar el río realineado en el nuevo paisaje de la ciudad.
Nuestra próxima visita a una parada de metro será la estación Kettenbrücke. En el camino visitamos y exploramos el famoso edificio de arte Sezession, el ícono por excelencia del Jugendstil vienés, así como dos hermosas casas de apartamentos de Otto Wagner. Aquí desarrollaremos la filosofía detrás de Jugendstil y consideraremos los símbolos y materiales preferidos por sus practicantes. Desde la estación de Kettenbrücke subiremos al metro para nuestra última parada, una visita a la estación imperial. Este extraordinario edificio fue erigido fuera del castillo de Schönbrunn únicamente para que el Emperador usar. La joya de la corona de la línea, esta estación también tenía un significado simbólico, a saber, mostrar a los críticos del metro de Viena que el emperador apoyaba la línea. En este pequeño pero dinámico edificio, reconoceremos todos los elementos que encontramos a lo largo del paseo y en las demás estaciones, al mismo tiempo que notamos los métodos utilizados por Wagner para traducir el estilo generalmente burgués del Art Nouveau en una estética con grandiosidad imperial.
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Información importante
- Hay opciones de transporte público disponibles en las cercanías
- Adecuado para todos los niveles de aptitud física
- Un máximo de 8 personas por reserva
Opiniones(24)
My husband and I had never been to Vienna before, and had one day to do something special there. I had heard that Vienna was rich with a unique kind of Art Nouveau architecture, Vienna Secession Architecture, so we booked a tour on Viator for June 2, 2026. Annelie was our guide - and she was great, providing us with in-depth info about the Secession Movement and taking us to see numerous gorgeous buildings across Vienna, on foot and on public transportation (Vienna's great subway). It was a spectacular tour: the Secession architecture that we saw was literally breathtaking, unlike anything else we'd ever seen, and Annelie had in-depth knowledge about it and Vienna's art and architecture in general. What incredible fun! Perhaps One of THE best tours ever! We now want to return to Vienna to explore that lovely city more.
Thank you for the wonderful review. We're so pleased you enjoyed your tour. Hope to see you on another Insight Cities tour in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, or Salzburg. Safe travels!
This was a great tour! An in depth look at the art nouveau movement in Vienna. Got to see the city from a different perspective. Our tour guide, Ilsa, had great information and insights! Highly recommend!
Thank you for the wonderful review. We're so pleased you enjoyed it. Hoping to see you on another Insight Cities tour in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, or Salzburg. Safe travels!
We wanted a tour to help us understand some of the history and culture of Vienna. Jan shared his expertise and answered our many questions. My understanding of Vienna was greatly enhanced by this experience. I highly recommend it!
Thank you for the wonderful review. We're so pleased you enjoyed it. Hoping to see you on another Insight Cities tour in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, or Salzburg. Safe travels!
Our guide’s name was Isis and she was extremely knowledgeable and interesting. We learned a lot about the artists at the forefront of this movement and how it impacted Vienna - culturally, historically, musically and aesthetically. Isis did a wonderful job of explaining and connecting many details. I recommend this tour wholeheartedly, especially after touring museums dedicated to the Hapsburgs. The contrast between “old” and “new” becomes clearer.
Thank you for taking the time to review. We're proud to work with such terrific guides. Hope to see you again on Insight Cities tours in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Salzburg. Please tell your friends!
We love art and architecture, and it was so helpful to have a knowledgeable guide take us around to various places in the city to show us the world of Viennese Art Nouveau. Our guide, Gerti, was an energetic delight. She also patiently answered a zillion additional questions about Austrian society that had nothing to do with our tour topic. Highly recommend!
Thank you for the wonderful review. We're so pleased you enjoyed it. Hoping to see you on another Insight Cities tour in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, or Salzburg. Safe travels!
My husband and I were absolutely delighted with this fascinating tour. Our cultural guide, a charming and incredibly knowledgeable lawyer with a keen affinity for architecture and Austrian history gave us one of the best visits in a long traveling life. We've been to Vienna multiple times and visited quite a few of its stunning Jugendstil monuments, but he still managed to show us buildings we didn't know, share new insights and anecdotes, and make us forget the cold and damp weather in the process. It was a memorable experience that we strongly recommend.
We are so glad that you enjoyed your tour despite the weather! How fantastic that you were able to discover new things about Vienna despite having visited before - we pride ourselves on our very knowledgable guides. Hope to see you on another Insight Cities tour in the future!
Jan was very interesting and passionate about Vienna. The blight was the succession building and the Beethoven frieze. Highly recommend
Thanks for your review! We're glad you enjoyed your tour with Jan!
Can’t say enough great things about our Art Nouveau tour with Ilse. Her knowledge of the topic as well as her ability to put art nouveau in Vienna in the context of the political and architectural development of the time and the city was extremely informative and interesting. She also went above and beyond to show and share so many examples and interesting facts. Absolutely LOVED this tour! Wish we had arranged a similar tour with Insight Cities in Budapest as we also found beautiful art nouveau there. Also did the Vienna City of Music tour with Annelie. Insight Cities has amazing guides and very special tours… highly recommended!
Can’t say enough about our guide Ilse. Very knowledgeable… and such a pleasure to listen to… provided great context of the history of art nouveau in Vienna relative to the political and architectural development of the city. AMAZING… don’t miss it! Start with this tour as you will want to explore even more on your own afterwards! Enjoy!
It was a pretty cold and rainy day and we weren’t super excited to be out in the weather. Fortunately our guide called and offered to take us by car so we wouldn’t be soaked and that was greatly appreciated. We loved seeing the Klimt in Secession Museum and learning all the bldg and the movement behind it. Learning about Otto Wagner and getting to see many different examples of his work was so wonderful.



