Saturday, October 8th

• Departure from Raleigh-Durham to airport Vienna, Austria.
• You will be in the new "old" world Sunday.

Sunday, October 9th

• Karin will pick you up from the airport in Vienna and transfer you to your hotel.
• Karin will try to book a room for you and your mother and friend at the four star hotel Mercure Wien Europaplatz, which is a centrally located deluxe hotel, near Vienna Westbahnhof from where we will travel to Salzburg, and near the castle Schönbrunn where you will enjoy your first Mozart concert.
• Freshen up in your room.
• Enjoy a nice dinner of your choice either at the hotel or in one of the lovely restaurants near the hotel.
• Relax the evening or stroll along the Mariahilferstrasse, which is the main shopping street in Vienna.

Monday, October 10th

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• This day we will dedicate to Mozart's last ten years of his life which he spent in Vienna and where he wrote his most important compositions.
• We will begin our tour with the Deutschordenshaus, which is located in the heart of Vienna, near the Stephansplatz. Mozart lived here not even two months, but those months were very important for his future.

• From there we will go to the "Mozarthaus", where Mozart lived with his wife Constanze and where he composed many great works, including "The Marriage of Figaro".

• From there we will go to the "Kruzifixkapelle", which is located at the back side of the Stephan's cathedral. This is where Mozart's funeral took place on December 6, 1791.
• Then we will walk into the cathedral, where Wolfgang married his Constanze. Also two of his children were baptized there.

• After that we will walk to the house where Mozart died and where he lived for two months prior to his death.
• From there we will walk over the "Graben" where Mozart himself walked many times, because he lived near there three times, unfortunately those houses do not exist anymore, but the history of this area is still very interesting.
• There we will visit house Graben 29, where Mozart and his family lived for a short time and where they moved in on January 23, 1784.
• From there, right next to the Peter's church, in "Milchgasse 1", he lived from May to September 1781, where the widow Mrs. Weber rented affordable rooms. She had four daughters which were the cousins of the composer Carl Maria von Weber and one of them was Constanze, Mozart's future wife.
• From there Mozart moved a couple houses further to "Graben 17", where he finished the "Haffner-Symphonie" and "The Abduction from the Seraglio". 
• From there we will walk to the "Michaelerkirche" (Michaeler church), where in 1749 the 17 year old Joseph Haydn played the organ and where after Mozart's death his soul mass was celebrated.

• Right next to the Michaelerkirche we will find a remembrance board which will tell us that there was until 1888 the old "Burgtheater "where the premier of Mozart's operas "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "The Marriage of Figaro" and "Così fan tutte" took place.
• From there we will stroll through the gorgeous gardens of the Hofburg.

• Then we will get to the "Mozart Denkmal" (Mozart Memorial). From spring to fall there are flowers in form of a big music note in front of this memorial, which was made by Viktor Tilgner in1896.

• We will cross the "Opernring" and then we will get to the "Theater an der Wien", which was opened in 1801, after Mozart's death. His friend Emanuel Schikaneder was the builder and first director of this theater and opera house. He was also the first Papageno in Mozart's Zauberflöte.

• Now we will get to Vienna's most famous farmer's market, the "Naschmarkt", where we will be able to watch busy Viennese life and where we will also have lunch.

• From there we will transfer to the "St. Marxer Friedhof ", the St. Marxer cemetery, where Mozart is buried. This impressive Biedermeier cemetery is one of a kind. There were funerals held only from 1784 bis 1874.

• Then we will transfer to Hütteldorf to the Schönbrunner Palace, where we will tour the palace and visit the private and official rooms of the imperial summer residence. Here we will end our Vienna Mozart tour where Mozart's career began. When he was six years old he played his first concert for the empress Maria Theresia.

• From there we will transfer to the hotel to freshen up.
• After that we will come back to the Schönbrunn Palace where you will experience your first Mozart concert of your Mozart Music Tour. Before the concert you will enjoy the exclusive Orangery menu at the Café-Restaurant Residenz. After that you will spend a memorable evening with the most beautiful works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Strauss at the Orangery Schoenbrunn.

• Transfer to the hotel.

Tuesday, October 11th

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• We will transfer to Dr. Sigmund Freud's office and private apartment, which are now a museum. Thanks to Freud's daughter Anna, the museum owns the original furniture from his waiting room, nearly eighty pieces of Freud's collection of antiques, and some of his personal belongings. The few existing original film and sound recordings of Sigmund Freud and his family can be viewed in the museum's media room.

• From there we will transfer to Vienna Westbahnhof.
• We will have a wonderful train trip through the country side from Vienna to Salzburg. You will have the option of having lunch in the train, which is usually very good. Menus are prepared fresh by a chef in the train's kitchen.

• In Salzburg we will transfer from the train station to your four star hotel. Karin is trying to book rooms for you in the hotel "Vier Jahreszeiten", which is a small, charming and cozy four-star hotel in the center of the city. It also has a very nice restaurant where Karin likes to dine when she is in Salzburg. The famous opera singer Luciano Pavarotti likes this place too.

Wednesday, October 12th

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Short walk from the hotel to Mirabell place.
• We will tour the Mirabell palace, Mirabell garden, dwarf garden and baroque museum.


• Then we will visit the University Mozarteum and the Mozart residence.

• After that we will transfer to the Castle and Watergarden Hellbrunn. Markus Sittikus (1574-1619) - Archbishop of Salzburg - spent the greater part of his youth in Italy. His palace of Hellbrunn was a monument in stone to his great passion for renaissance art. From the magnificent gardens and tree - lined avenues to the silent ponds - from the austere stone theater to the aromatic shrubs and flowers in the light-filled orangery: Hellbrunn Park deserves its reputations a masterpiece of landscape gardening.
  Hellbrunn, the summer residence of Salzburg's prince archbishops, is an example of the close link between culture and nature in the area around the city of Salzburg. The trick fountains, probably unique in the whole world, reflect the lifestyle of the Baroque age and the wealth acquired from salt-mining.
 

• After the tour we will transfer back to the old town and visit the coffee house and pastry shop Fürst, where you will be able to taste and purchase original "Salzburger Mozartkugeln".
• From there we will walk to the "Sebastiansfriedhof" (Sebastian's cemetery) in the "Linzergasse" where we will be able to visit Mozart's father Leopold's and Mozart's wife Constance's graves.
• Then we will walk to the hotel, where you can freshen up and relax and you can have dinner.
• In the evening we will go to the Mirabell palace again where you will enjoy Mozart's finest music in one of the most beautiful music halls.

• After the concert we will go back to the hotel.

Thursday, October 13th

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• You will be picked up by Karin's friend and Salzburg Tour Guide Herta Gallée, who is a retired teacher. She speaks English and is a member of the Austrian American Society.
• You will spend this day with wonderful surprises of historically important sites including Mozart's birth place and Herta will do her best to explain to you how Mozart's life was when he lived in Salzburg.

• You will have a lunch of your choice during the tour.
• Herta will bring you to your hotel, where you will have a short time to freshen up.
• In the following (later afternoon) Herta will transfer you to her lovely private home in the country, where in the meanwhile Karin is preparing a traditional Austrian dinner especially for you. Karin is also a Personal Chef specializing in Austrian cuisine, usually working where she lives, near Palm Springs.

• After dinner Karin will transfer you to your hotel.

Friday, October 14th

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• We will walk to the Cathedral place and visit the Franciscan church (stylistically Salzburg's most interesting church), historic goldsmith's workshop, Georg Trakl memorial and research center, St. Michael church, Heimatwerk (folklore arts and crafts), Residenz fountain, the Cathedral and the Cathedral museum with the Cathedral treasure, art from the Salzburg archdiocese from the middle ages to the 19th century and the archiepiscopal art and curiosity chamber.

• Then we will walk to the Cajetan church, Erhard church and Nonnberg convent.

• From there we will walk through small romantic streets like the Bierjodlgasse (beer jodl street) to the Stieglkeller, a traditional brewery-restaurant where you will be able to enjoy a traditional Austrian lunch of your choice.
• In the afternoon we will get to the famous St. Peter's cemetery and church and the nearby - mainly to insiders known - Felsenkeller, a wine cellar in the mountain - open to the public - with walls decorated with coins.

• From there we will transfer to the hotel to freshen up.
• Transfer to the Stiftskeller St. Peter for a Mozart-Dinner and -Concert in the magnificent baroque-hall. The Mozart-Concert is played by Salzburg artists in historic costumes. The Dinner Concert is unique in Salzburg and all over the world. Imagine the experience of living in Mozart's Salzburg with all its colorful costumes and its culinary joys. Enjoy the most popular compositions by W.A. Mozart by candlelight in the stylish ambiance of the Stiftskeller St. Peter restaurant. Music is played by Salzburg artists in historic costumes and a 3-course dinner is served, prepared as it was in Mozart's times. (The musical program is performed between the courses). The ensemble "AMADEUS CONSORT SALZBURG", consisting of two singers and five musicians concentrates particularly on the works of Salzburg's "genius loci", W. A. Mozart. The program comprises popular compositions from "The Magic Flute", "Don Giovanni" and "Little Night Music".

• Transfer to the hotel.

Saturday, October 15th

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• We will walk to the "old town" to Collegiate church and we will visit the old Rathaus and visit of the Open Air Market where you will be able to enjoy a lunch of your choice. Karin recommends Käsekrainer (cheese-filled sausages) with some spicy mustard and fresh bread from one of the many Würstlstände (sausage-stands).
• The early afternoon is free for shopping, visiting coffee houses, pastry shops, etc.
• In the later afternoon we will take a boat trip on the river Salzach.
• After that we will transfer to cable railway to the Fortress Hohensalzburg.

• There you will have dinner and a concert in the magnificent Prince's Chamber of the Hohensalzburg Fortress with spectacular view of the city. This concert at Hohensalzburg Fortress, the city's mightiest landmark built in 1077, is another very special experience. The elegant State Rooms are the magnificent setting for the 'Salzburg Fortress Concerts', performing selected works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his contemporaries all year round. The dinner by candlelight will be at the fortress restaurant with its breathtaking view overlooking the lights of the city.
• Transfer to hotel.

Sunday, October 16th

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• You will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to the airport.
• You will arrive in the United States the same day with full of memories of an unforgettable experience...