Day Trips from Vienna

Explore beautiful sites surrounding the southern part of the Vienna Woods on a half day guided coach tour. Highlights of the tour include a visit to the Mayerling hunting lodge. You'll pass the Roman City of Baden, famous for its thermal springs as you travel through the romantic valley Helenental to the former Mayerling hunting lodge. Today it is a commemorative chapel however it was also the very place the Crown Prince Rudolph, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph, committed suicide with Baronesse Vetsera in 1889. In the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (1133) you will visit the medieval cloisterwhichhouses the remains of the last Babenberger. Keep an eye out as you drive by the Holdrichsmühle where Franz Schubert composed his song 'The Linden Tree': You'll you leave the Vienna Woods and return to Vienna, passing the Liechtenstein Castle on the way. HALF DAY EXCURSION (4 HRS) VIENNA WOODS AND MAYERLING Vienna woods