Shops and shopping centers in Vienna
Vienna is, of course, an expensive city. A little help save your tax free finances. The most coveted words for a shopper in Vienna are Reduiziert or Tiefreduziert on signs, which means «sale». Twice a year, with the start of the summer sale at the end of July and the winter sale after December 27th, the city fills with professional shoppers and it is at this time that Vienna becomes a wallet-friendly city.
Clothes, shoes, accessories
- Most tourists use Mariahilfer Straße for shopping. It connects Ringstrasse and West Station. If you measure its length at metro stops, you get as many as four stations. There are not many expensive brand stores here, the prices are relatively democratic. It takes a long time to explore the myriad shops and shops on Mariahilfer Straße, so it is best to plan at least a couple of days for «plundering». Plus, an evening at the hotel will help you critically rethink your daytime shopping. The next day what you are with «got excited», without unnecessary questions and problems will be accepted back if there is a check.
- Peeks Cloppenburg department store especially attracts tourists. The department store also has expensive brands and inexpensive youth clothing and footwear. Discount products are available at any time of the year, so you can easily pick up things within your means. From the Austrian department store brands, we single out Van Laack - high-quality men's shirts and ties, Wjlford - tights, stockings, socks.
- If you are attracted by luxury shopping, Vienna invites you to the streets of Graben, Kartnerstrabe, Lohlmark. They are located in Old Vienna in the Hofburg, Opera and St. Stefan.
Souvenirs, decorations, porcelain
- Several Swarowski brand shops are located on the Mariahilfer Straße shopping street. Naturally, jewelry, invented by a native of Austria-Hungary, Daniel Swarovski, it is better to buy in the homeland of the inventor of these amazingly transparent and shining crystals. The assortment of branded stores is several times greater than the offerings of boutiques in the duty free zone, so there is no need to hope to catch up at the airport.
- White Viennese porcelain is pleasant and convenient to buy at the Augarten Palace. Before purchasing the famous dishes or figurines made of white porcelain, it is interesting to admire the palace itself, as well as visit the excursion to the porcelain factory and see firsthand all the stages of production: how clay is kneaded, products are formed, fired, and drawings are applied..
Products, sweets, wines
- Next to the Vienna Opera is the Sacher Café and the Sacher Gastronomy. It is impossible to understand Vienna without tasting a slice of Sachertorte with a cup of coffee. Sacher cake as a gift can also be purchased here.
- Demel Patisserie is a historical landmark. Once it was she who supplied sweets to the imperial court. The traditions of handmade culinary masterpieces are still preserved. We are in a hurry here for traditional Viennese sweets, for example, candied violet petals or the same Sacher.
- Spar supermarkets can help you with a selection of traditional Austrian food souvenirs - Eiswein wine or pumpkin seed oil. Ice wine production is highly regulated. The name comes from the time of the grape harvest for the wine - after frosts down to -7 degrees, this famous sweet wine is made from such raisins..
