From Prague to Vienna

From 450 euros. The approximate time is 15 hours.

Now I will tell you about my excursion from Prague to Vienna.

The capitals of the Czech Republic and Austria are separated by only three hundred kilometers, but it seems as if there is an endless space between them - so these cities are different.

Prague is fabulous and cozy, with homemade food, mysticism, ghouls and incomprehensible chimes. He walks well in ragged jeans and a baseball cap.

Vienna is a prim arrogant aristocrat with a lornet and a powdered wig. Cane, pot and expensive cufflinks here definitely do not hurt.

Vienna was the capital of the Holy Reich for nearly seven hundred years, and Prague for less than a hundred.

I guess that's the point.

Both cities are very old, but their age is very conditional.

The history of Vienna is usually counted from the time of the Roman Empire, and its founder is called Marcus Aurelius.

In Roman times, the Danube Limes passed in these places and the border garrison was quartered. In the one hundred and eightieth year, the Roman emperor died here.

At the end of the fifth century, the western part of the Roman Empire fell, and for many centuries nothing serious happened in what is now Vienna.

But in one thousand hundred and fifty-fifth year, the margrave Heinrich the Second Jasomirgott settled in the area of the present Freiung monks from Regensburg and moved from Klosterneuburg castle himself.

In one thousand hundred and fifty-six by the will of Emperor Frederick I, Austria became a hereditary duchy, and Jasomirgott - its first ruler.

It is more logical to start the history of the Austrian capital from here.

However, that someone will appoint him the father of the Austrian capital, Yazomirgott definitely did not think.

Similarly, Yuri Dolgoruky, feasting with Svyatoslav Olgovich eight years earlier, had no idea that he had thereby founded Moscow.

A hundred years later, the Habsburgs connected Austria to their domains, and after the coronation of the thirty-first of May, one thousand four hundred and thirty-eighth of the year Albrecht of the Fifth Vienna became the capital of all their possessions.

Europe is a cultural vinaigrette with interesting tectonics of a huge mass of events. Getting into all this is fun, but hardly today...

Having passed a long path of historical vicissitudes, Vienna has turned into a city with beautiful architecture and indescribable imperial dignity.

Outstanding persons were born, lived and worked here, dedicating great discoveries, epic poems and solemn waltzes to their city.

Vienna has a sea of monuments, museums, theaters, palaces and universities.

Here is an endlessly vulcanizing metropolitan European spirit and an amazing Viennese mood.

It seems that a walk through beautiful streets and vast squares to talk about history, architecture and people is the most suitable for today.

Needless to say, Viennese coffee, strudel and schnitzel will not be ignored.