Vienna: a massive imperial city where dreams come true.

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Vienna: a massive imperial city where dreams come true.

From July 1st to 3rd and from July 9th to 10th 2014 I embarked on an adventure alone through three European capital cities: Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest. I had always intended to travel through these cities (with very clear objectives) and had never succeeded. So, without further ado, I decided to plan this trip and do it by myself. Given the large number of places I visited in ten days, I think it is better to cover these cities one by one, and in this post I am going to talk about Vienna.

Vienna is a monumental city, full of imperial palaces and Renaissance and Baroque buildings, in whose streets, avenues, cafés and gardens some of the intellectual movements that determined the art of the twentieth century were born. Starting from the Hofburg Palace and ending at the Schönbrunn, Vienna is a city to dream about. Here you have a walk through some of the most representative monuments of the Austrian capital.

My room at the Hotel Pension Suzanne, located right in the centre of the city, was right next to the famous Vienna Opera House and had the most important shopping street in Vienna on the other side, plus many restaurants, the cathedral, and was a few steps away from other palaces and Viennese buildings of interest.

The Vienna State Opera (or Wiener Staatsoper) is a Renaissance building built between 1861 and 1869. During World War II, the building was bombarded and burned, events that destroyed the decoration and about 150,000 pieces of clothing. Finally, after the war, it was rebuilt and restored. Its surroundings are filled with men dressed as characters from other centuries, with white curly wigs, making offers to anyone who looked like a tourist.

The cathedral of St. Stephen is the main church of Vienna. It is located on St. Stephen Square, right in the center of the city, at the end of the most important shopping street in Vienna, which was just a few steps away from my hotel. All the streets that reach this square are the most lively in the city, full of cafés and always with many people wanting to get lost in this capital of the Danube and imperial city.

Visiting the Ecology Project of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation

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Visiting the Ecology Project of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation:

After some time without writing in the blog and being already in Spain because of some family problems, I arrived with the desire to tell you some experiences that I had pending from when I was still living in India. India was my home for a year and a half of my life and, therefore, I have more memories and experiences than I could narrate in this blog. However, there are several experiences that, either due to lack of time or technical problems, have not been reflected here until now.

Let's go back in time, exactly until July 8th 2015, three days after arriving in India. As I said on other occasions, the purpose of this trip was to volunteer with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation for a year, although we spent the first three days visiting projects carried out by said NGO.