Private Tour of the Spanish Riding School
Today walk back to the Hofburg Palace complex for a private tour of the Spanish Riding School. Your private riding school guide will meet you at 3PM sharp at the entrance to the school. This is the oldest and last Riding School in the world where classic dressage is still practiced in its purest form.
This Institute was founded in 1572 and its very name gives away the fact that the horses were of Spanish origin. The Lipizzaner is regarded as the oldest classic horse race in Europe. The superb arena - the Winter Riding School in the Vienna Hofburg (Imperial Palace) in which the Riders of the Spanish Riding School train the horses and where they perform was commissioned by Emperor Karl VI. His portrait decorates the white baroque hall built by Josef Emanuel Fischer von Erlach from 1729 to 1735. Since 1920 the presentations of classical dressage have been open to the public.
Your private guide will meet you and take you through the arena, the stables and the equipment room.
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