Danube River Cruise

June 13-29, 2014

Friday, June 20, Vienna


The Pallas Athena Fountain in front of the Austrian Parliament building. The four figures at the foot of the goddess Athena are representations of the four rivers - the Danube, the Inn, the Elbe and the Moldau.

The Neptune Fountain in the garden at Schönbrunn Palace

Naiad Fountainat at Schönbrunn Palace, representing groups of Naiads (spirits of springs and rivers who belonged to Neptune’s followers)

The Pestsaule Statue in Graben Square, a memorial to the 75,000 to 150,000 Vienna citizens lost to the bubonic plague in 1679.

Austrian Parliament building

 

St. Michael's Church is one of the oldest churches in Vienna and one of its few remaining Romanesque buildings. Dedicated to the Archangel Michael, St. Michael's Church is located at Michaelerplatz across from St. Michael's Gate at the Hofburg Palace.

St. Michael's Church

 

 


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