When in 1365 Duke Rudolph IV had died without leaving offspring, his inheritance was split between the family. The Habsburgs were threatened to fall into oblivion. It changed almost a hundred years later when...

We arrived at Valletta after some church holiday. No one could tell me exactly what was being celebrated, in Malta, there are similar holidays almost every day, but that’s what I understood only later....

"I'm going to town," says a Viennese, located outside the Ringstrasse, but still inside Vienna, and intends to go to the 1st district. "How is it possible?", a stranger wonders as the person has...

I like mosaics. It is fascinating what amazing patterns can be created from many small regular or irregular pieces of stone, glass, mirror, ceramics, shells and all sorts of other materials. When travelling, mosaics...

Viennese call it the „church with a shot down tower“. Indeed, the spiky roof of the church tower served as a target for many shooting attempts during different battles and wars in the past....

The House of Liechtenstein belongs to the most important aristocratic families in Europe. They possess two palaces in Vienna: the Garden Palace (Fürstengasse 1) and the City Palace (Bankgasse 9). Except for the rich...

Easter is coming – in Vienna, you can feel it thanks to not only chocolate rabbits on the shelves in any supermarket or spring decoration in the shop windows, but also the genuine atmosphere...

It’s Sunday afternoon. The fresh air invites for a walk. On the meadow, there are young families sitting on their picnic blankets. While the adults try to catch the first warm sunbeams, at the...

Usually, I compare cooking to painting because you have to mix all ingredients in the same way a painter mixes and arranges paints on his palette. However, when I came to the workshop in...

It is not located in the center of Vienna. Neither it is beleaguered by the mass of tourists. Nevertheless, it is one of the most interesting sights in the Austrian capital, one of the...