New Year In Vienna and Paris - 7 days
Celebrate your New Year Eve 2014/2015 at the Imperial Grand Ball in Vienna Hofburg Palace.
New Year’s Eve highlight in the heart of Vienna
This year’s program of The HOFBURG Saint-Silvester ball, will bring top-class performers from the Vienna State Opera, the Volksoper, big-name bands and orchestras, as well as catchy rhythms from waltz music to jazz to the former imperial winter residence. In addition to a spellbinding opening ceremony, you will be treated to an unforgettable midnight show against the backdrop of a spectacular firework display on Heldenplatz, the ringing of the Pummerin bell at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the traditional Blue Danube Waltz, and the popular public quadrille in the imperial staterooms of the world-famous Hofburg.
The four-course gala dinner is served on beautiful porcelain by waiters in tails. Your meal will be accompanied by fine wines from Austria and genuine French champagne. The New Year’s Eve gala dinner has been carefully crafted with outstanding attention to detail by Gerstner Catering.
New Year's Eve ball is once again being held under the patronage of Austrian President Dr. Heinz Fischer.
A memorable New Year holiday in Vienna and in Paris. A program with visit Viennese forest; A delicious cruise diner on Seine River in Paris, to be emerged in stunning scenery of some most admired monuments of the word: Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, le Grand Palais, le Louvre, Alexander III Bridge…
Apart the New Year Eve dinner, other surprises await you, such as we reserve specially for you typical and legendary Viennese and Parisian restaurants, private visit the last inhabited historical mansion in Paris.
Itinerary: Vienna – Heiligenkreuz - Mayerling - Baden - Paris
D1 Arrive Vienna, transfer to your hotel. Afternoon, little panoramic tour of Vienna: many rich monuments line the Ring of this old imperial capital: Parliament, the Opera House, City Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Belvedere ... orientation tour to the city of the UN, the Danube and the Prater park, famous for the big wheel.
Dine in a Heuriger (typical tavern) in Vignerons district of Vienna, on the hill of the city.
D2 Breakfast and departure for Viennese forest. Visit the Abbey of Heiligenkreuz with a magnificent complex medieval cloister, continue to Mayerling discover the Hunting Lodge transformed into a chapel commemorating the tragic death of Prince Rudolf.
Lunch and continue to Baden, famous spa town, rebuilt and made fashionable during the Belle Epoque, this is one of the finest examples of Biedermeier art. Beethoven wrote a major part of his Ninth Symphony here.
Dinner at the legendary "Marchfelderhof"
D3 After breakfast, walking tour of the Old City: St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Graben, the Hofburg Imperial Palace. In the end free time in town centre for shopping. Lunch behind the opera.
Afternoon free for preparations for the New Year Eve Ball.
Evening, Grand New Year Eve ball at Vienna Hofburg Imperial Palace.
D4 Free in the morning. Formal New Year Lunch in hotel. Afternoon dedicated to visit the castle and gardens of Schönbrunn, the Austrian “Versailles” and summer residence of the imperial family. Dinner. Optional evening concert at Kursalon: Viennese Waltz and Mozart.
D5 Breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight to Paris.
Arrive Paris, lunch in a traditional restaurant in Montmartre.
Afternoon visit Basilica Sacre Coeur, Montmartre artist village. Then we go for a private visit a historic mansion of 1890 original of Duke of Vicenza, Grand Ecuyer of Napoleon, this is the last historical mansion in Paris still inhabited, and you will be welcome by the Baron personally.
Dinner at famous traditional old brasserie.
D6 Full day free for shopping, it’s right the time of winter sale, enjoying!
Evening, dinner cruise on the Paris Seine River; a magic moment to admire some most famous monuments of the world illuminated festively all long during your delicious dinner.
D7 Breakfast, free time in Paris for some last shopping or personal visit. Transfer to airport for flight to home.
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