Day six: Wien - Naschmarkt, Secession and Theater an der Wien

We returned to the apartment for a short rest before heading to Naschmarkt. By the time we got there in the early evening, most of the stalls were already closed. The city crew was busy cleaning the debris in the nearby flohmarkt (fleamarket). But some of the die-hard sellers (and shoppers) just moved to the far end of the lot and continued on with the hawking.

We walked along the left bank of Wienzeile, where most of the restaurants and food stalls are. As we were walking around in the area, we spotted the "stars" and knew we must be close to another historical landmark. Then we saw it off a side street: Theater an der Wien, where Beethoven lived during 1803 and 1804 to finish Fidelio and where his only opera, Symphonies #2, 3, 5 and 6, and his violin concerto were premiered. The stars in this area are all giants: LvB, Mozart and Salieri among them. Poor Dvořák's star is under a garbage bin.



The row of restaurants and food stalls end at the Secession, where we turned around to go back to a restaurant that we settled on earlier. Here are two pictures of the Secession, the institution found by a group of breakaway artists in the late 19th century.


After dinner we stopped by an open-air cafe at Nachtmarkt to enjoy some Viennese dessert. Here are the kids waiting anxiously for their apple strudel.