Vienna. Conservative and avant-garde, elegant and multicultural, nostalgic and stormy. Always one step ahead. Birthplace or place of work of excellent artists, scientific capacities, philosophers and economists. From a former settlement by a forest stream, it became the seat of UN organizations and one of the best places to live through the center of the influential and vast Danubian Empire.

When Vienna is mentioned, most people probably immediately think of the castle Schönbrunn, the imperial residence Hofburg, the cathedral of St. . Štěpán, iconic cafes with a respected manager, a sacher with a whipped cream cap, the boys' choir Sängerknaben, the Vienna Philharmonic, the king of waltzes Johann Strauss, the inventor of the sewing machine Josef Madersperger or the funeral museum as an expression of the Viennese's unique relationship to death. Or also the Viennese Schmäh, specific mannerisms and nonchalant behavior reminiscent of all the titles, as well as the sparkling melodic dialect of a rather wordy German with expressions that you can only understand with an Austrian-German dictionary. A pleiade of important personalities and events line the glorious history of a metropolis full of energy, self-confidence and innovation, cities with enviable care for cultural heritage, cities sought after by investors, students, artists and immigrants. A visit to Vienna, full of contradictions, many building styles, where it hums like a multinational beehive even more than under the monarchy, is a visit to two worlds, imperial and contemporary, which already has one hand on the pulse of the future.