How to spend better a Sunday morning than exploring wonders of the local history with familly and friends of all ages joining from around the world visiting the beautiful and romantic city of Vienna?
On this morning as most of the Sunday it was the Viennse steemit meetup tourguide. At around 10h30, with @wolfgangsieberth we left @frameworks to go to the meeting point in front of the Opera House near Karlplatz to wait for the participants.
Meeeting point
To join the free tour, the meeting point is always at the exit of the Kalplatz Ubhan station in front of the funtain to begin at 11h. Usually, I am waiting with @wolfgangsieberth, the @globalschool participants, steemians & who want to join.
Below some of the place we have been visiting
We started at the Opera House, exploring the history and evolution of Vienna from the Roman Empire time. An occasion for the youngest to also dance. =D
Stop at Opera House
At he Opera House, @wolfgangsieberth made a point on the destruction of the monument during the war, and the event celebrating its reconstruction which was the first live event broadcasted in Vienna.The state Opera (Staatoper) can host 2200 seats and standing places.
Stop at the Sacher Hotel
Little bit further, we stopped at the Sacher Hotel.
Discover more about Sacher on their website.
From the Sacher Hotel, we took the direction of the Albertina (https://www.albertina.at/)
Stop at Bitzinger Wurstelstand Albertina
Above a screenshot from tripadvisor showing the reality of the fame of the place.
Stop at "Das Schmetterlinghaus"
Then, we went to the Butterfly cage. (http://www.schmetterlinghaus.at/)
Well prepared, at each stop, @wolfgangsieberth showed and shared with us an historical map of the place we were visiting together as well explained the important historical facts.
Stop at the doors of the old fortified city
Direction hofburg, we contemplated together Heldenplatz in front of Hofburg. The gate dressed in the past is still the one you can see standing today.
Heldenplatz was the place were the unfamous Hitler took power.
Stop at the Hofburg
Arriving at Hofburg, after watching old cars, we get to know how the place is used today. We also learned that in the past it was the Imperial forum which is including the National Library inside the Hofburg walls. One time a year Pioneer festival is held there to celebrate creativity and entrepreneurship empowerement.
We get a look to the spanish riding school with its gem of Baroque architecture.
https://www.demel.com/
Last stops before the end
Pestsäule
After looking at the souvenirs shops in the street, we made a last stop before the end to contemplate the monuments dedicated to the Pest.
The Plague Column (German: Pestsäule), or Trinity Column (German: Dreifaltigkeitssäule,) is a Holy Trinity column located on the Graben, a street in the inner city of Vienna, Austria. See more on Wikipedia .
.@wolfgangsieberth is really good in finding interesting stories to share with the participants. I am glad to count on him to support this project I originally initiated.
Stop and end of tour at Stephan Platz
Coming back at @frameworks I saw a message from @smartcoins on discord who was telling he was planning to come but maybe a little bit late did not find us. So for the next time, please take the phone number of @wolfgangsieberth (+43 69981611976) who is supporting the tourguide and coordinating it with me (as I still dont have a phone, its more practical to have his number in case you are joining us later and we are already on the way). ;-)
Discover more about Vienna https://www.wien.info/
If you are not from the region, I advise you to check the website of the Vienna Tourism agency with whom I have been cooperating already on past projects making the cartography of the Christmas locations in Vienna for my project Christmas Map.
Come and visit us!
If you want to join for a #steemit exploration, #cryptoart @workshops to make for example some memorable @steemshirts, or if you need an accommodation during your stay in Vienna, do not hesitate to contact me or @wolfgangsieberth as we are both co-host at @frameworks where we would be happy to host you if you are coming around! Check more on one of our accomodation in Vienna by reading the article "Accomodation wanted" written by Radka (@ideamachine).
On the side of being a guest house, @frameworks is a co creative space and residence hosting notably the @ccommons.art, @globalschool, @generationeuropa, @silkroad40 meetups and activities such as @workshops, as well as it is used as coworking space by a serie of creatives and entrepreneurs. As seen in some of my previous posts and by the "com-lab" annoucement, I am seriously thinking to connect @frameworks to the steem and eos blockchain by creating a digital platform accessible in the space and by the web in order to call for contributors and ensure to reward them.
Join the @globalschool participants and steemians contributors next week at the "com-lab" to know more about how @frameworks can become an autonomous #CryptoArt space empowering the entrepreneurial ane creative community by providing various rewards systems and community services which would enable @frameworks to reproduce itself when reaching the proper conditions.
I am far to achieve this, but hopefully with your support I'll be able to demonstrate how this project can effectively participate to the #gift-economy and achieve its #ubi (universal basic income vision).
Next tour guide sunday 22.04.2018
Do not hesitate to join the next tour guide which is planned on the 22nd of April, starting at 11h, so it mean, it is better to be there 10 min before to catch the group or to contact me or @wolfgangsieberth by phone on the +43 69981611976.
We are looking forward to see you around!
With a lot of love,
Jean