This tour is done by a small team of 4 historians that want to make people aware of how fast things can change! Learn about the origins and early years of Hitler on a 2.5-hour walking tour of historic Vienna. On this tour, you will hear the History of Austria and Europe from 1900 until 1955. Alongside your guide, you'll find out the answer to the following questions: How did an Austrian postcard painter turn into the world’s most hated man? Where could Hitler and Stalin have met? Plus, you'll see the scars of World War II and visit the only synagogue to survive the Holocaust. Take a deeper look into the darkest days of Vienna’s history.

We meet our guests at all hotels/vacation homes in town and at the city pier. The tour also works for day-time layovers of min. 6hrs. starting at the Hilton Park Hotel (mark as special request). See hidden sides of the Austrian capital that other visitors miss on this private 3-hour walking tour of Vienna. Follow a private guide through the back alleys and courtyards and gain insight into centuries of colorful Austrian history. Enjoy the freedom to choose the route to suit your preferences. We introduce our efficient, simple and save public transportation system where useful. By meeting our guests at their “doorstep” we eliminate the hassle in finding meeting-points. After booking we provide planning help even beyond bookable services. Simply the best “Inner City Tour” for repeat visitors or guest planning an extended stay!

Walk in the footsteps of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, members of the Habsburg family, one of the most distinguished royal houses of Europe for 600 years, Ludwig van Beethoven, Adolf Hitler, and many more on this broad-reaching, informative and fun historical tour through the cobblestoned streets and alleys of Vienna’s inner city. This tour traces Vienna’s historical roots, from the Celts and Romans, to its modern day inhabitants, and brings its rich history to life! Stops include: • St. Stephen’s Cathedral • Vienna State Opera • Heldenplatz • Hofburg Imperial Palace • The Graben and Plague Column • Jewish Square • the Burggarten and Volksgarten and many more!

From the Middle Ages, the Jewish community in Vienna was one of Europe's largest. This 2.5-hour Jewish Vienna tour explores the tumultuous experiences of Vienna’s Jewish citizens through expulsion, genocide, and revival. Your historian guide will help you to discover the influential contributions of past intellectual and cultural icons and the fragile revitalization of Vienna’s Jewish community taking place today. We begin outside the Jewish City Temple before winding through the second district to the destroyed Leopoldstädter Temple. Visiting the Nestroyhof Theater with its stunning Art Nouveau exterior, once home to Yiddish-speaking ensembles, we reflect on brilliant leaders of Vienna’s intellectual, political, and economic spheres from the Jewish community: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, Karl Krauss, Franz Werfel, and Gustav Mahler. Learning of the victims and survivors of Nazi genocide, we visit destroyed Ashkenazi and Sephardic synagogues and the Judenplatz Holocaust memorial.

The Jewish community of Vienna is a culture rich in history and goes back hundreds of years— from the first Jewish person in Austria, Salomon also known as Schlom, to the artists, doctors and scientists who shaped Viennese culture in 1900, to the Holocaust, to the present-day Jewish community in Vienna. Our Jewish Walking Tour emphasizes the intellectual, cultural and artistic flowerings of this remarkable community, as well as the dark periods wherein this community was banished from Vienna.

Vienna is a mirror: a city with imperial muscle memory, catastrophic misjudgment, and a remarkable post‑war reinvention. This private walk connects Vienna’s highlights with the turning points that shaped modern Austria - from the Anschluss to liberation, occupation, neutrality, and the city’s role as a bridge between East and West. Belvedere Hill, the Soviet Memorial, Heldenplatz, the Hofburg, Judenplatz, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral anchor a route that blends beauty with context. For cineasts: The Third Man, Lady in Gold, Mission: Impossible, Rogue Nation, Red Sparrow - four different windows into Vienna’s wartime scars and Cold War shadows. Why travelers choose this walk: • From your doorstep - stress‑free meeting and orientation in your temporary home • Public transportation - sustainable, empowering, part of our Vienna experience • Three personal hours with a local - close‑up, conversational, never scripted • Explore Vienna with a Viennese - nuance, context, and lived perspective