2014-01-06

Thursday, August 28 – Graz Next day on Thursday, August 28 we depart from Graz for Vienna around 10AM.  Roads in Austria are toll free, but if you use highways, you have to purchase passenger-car vignette.  We already had this sticker attached to the inside of the front windshield, because we rent our car in Austria. Johann Strauss Johannes Brahms Franz Schubert   Around 1PM we entered Vienna proper.  We took Favoritten exit from the highway and relatively quickly found Wiener Zentralfriedhof or Vienna Central Cemetery.  It is located a little off the center, and it is inconvenient to visit without a car. Ludwig van Beethoven Death gives a new address – Memorial Group 32A Dec. 17, 1770 – Mar. 26, 1827   This cemetery is very large and it took a good walk to reach famous composers moved here all together after the fact.  We visited and photographed tombs of four composers: Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Josef Strauss (1827-1870). Mozart last address is St. Marx cemetery.  They did not move him, because there were nothing to move. Mozart was buried in1791 in a common grave in St. Marx cemetery, so no one [...]

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