Visiting Mozart and Sisi in charming Vienna
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An extremely posh capital. First impression was : an ultrawhite city, which has so much to show and offer!
One of the major memories about my sojourn in Vienna was subway. Subway all the time. Wherever we wanted and didn't want to go -subway. Subway, subway,subway. All. The.Time. We used it a lot, nevertheless, we really liked some stations that reminded us the Platform 9 3/4. 
The first place we visited was, of course, the city centre. We walked around the main square Stephanplatz, where we tried the best Viennese Apple Strudel in one of the cafes, visited Stephansdom, where a lot of Mozarts were inviting us for the performances and moved to the Hofsburg, where we were amazed by this purely white beauty of the buildings, had a glimpse at the royal horseriding school and relaxed on the stairs inside the National Library. Wandering around those streets, we could easily imagine the royal dance balls, kings and queens, and started the whole "dreaming" topic "Someday in the future I will..."
One of the best things we had visited was Sisi's palace (Schönbrunn). My friend was very much fond of her, so we didn't have other choice than to go there. Besides, some of the best chocolate candies of Vienna were Sisi's Tafeln. The ticket cost 12-14 Euros, but it was totally worth it! We were impressed by all luxurious things we saw there - each room was adorned in a different and special way and there was a vast territory with a gorgeous garden outside.
Mozart's House
Vienna is very proud of being a Mozart city. It can be felt everywhere, if you didn't know it before coming to the city. All of my friends that visit Vienna usually bring some souvenirs that are concerned with: a) Mozart (Mozartkugeln (supertasty chocolate candies with marzipan) or Mozart liquor) b) Sisi's candies.
They made a whole museum out of one of the apartments a young genius used to live in. The entrance ticket cost 10 Euros and we had audio guide, saw manuscripts of the music sheet, written by Mozart himself and found out interesting stories about naughty Mozart and his wild young years. The apartment had a few floors, and was so cozy ( and I was so exhausted) that I fell asleep right on the stairs, waiting for my friend to complete her tour.
Stadtpark.
One of the peculiarities of Vienna - whenever we went, we ALWAYS bumped into some place of interest. We didn't have a normal cityguide and decided to discover the city on our own. In Vienna we surely couldn't fail with that. That's how we bumped into the city park, which was, as my friend said, well-known to her because of the movie "Before Sunrise".
On our way to the city centre we found some interesting views, which assured us that we didn't really need any tips - it's about going , feeling and enjoying this amazing city and everything you see would please you.
The Rathaus (City Hall)
We saw just a glimpse of it at the daytime - it was beautiful as all the major buildings in Vienna, but it really stands out at night.
The interesting thing about Vienna was that if in Prague my Spanish friend didn't have problems with communicating since almost everyone there was Spanish-speaking, I had the same situation in Vienna. We bumped into so many Russian speakers.
There was so much we saw and so much that is still to be seen. I've been in Vienna 2 times and every time I visited different sights. The remaining things I want to visit are at least Belvedere Palaces and Freud museum.
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