Vienna, the imperial and cultural city

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Vienna is a beautiful city, located in the center of Europe. There are many historical and cultural monuments and its transportation system is one of the best in the world. In this first year living in Vienna, I have visited the majority of the most important monuments of this city:  St. Stephan Cathedral,  „Rathaus“ (Town Hall), Secession Museum, St.Charles Church, The Opera,  The Parlament, The Schonbrunn Palace (Summer Palace of the Emperors), The Hofburg (Emperors Palace), the Belvedere Palace (Summer Palace of Prince Eugene) and most of its ancient and small streets in down town of the city.

I also could listen to a concert of the famous Singers Children from Vienna (Wiener Sängerknaben), in last winter and visited some of the most famous musems as Albertina, Emperors Museum, Sizi Museum, National Museum of Art. There are so many museums that it is difficult to visit all of them. I hope to do it at least this next year.  I have been able to listen the dialy concert with Mozart and Strauss music in the Shonbrunn Palace, too.

In Vienna also there are some modern buildings used for congresses and international conferences, as the Vienna International Center, which houses  some Organizations of the United Nations and other International Organisms since 1979 and the Austria Center, where there are exhibitions, spectacles and congresses all year long.

I like eating the delicious Viennesse food, particularly the „Sachertorte“and the „Wiener Schnitzel“, the most known dishes of this interesting city. We also have visited a few „Heurigers“, places outside the down town, where we find the most traditional recipes and we can drink the „young wine“, special wine for each year season.

I think that one year has not been enough for knowing this incredible city. I hope to continue visiting more places and people traditions and that’s why I need improve my German.