Wiener Hofreitschule - Spanish Riding School

Pros: Pros: the famed Lipizzaner stallions; the history; dressage at its best
Cons: Cons: good seats prohibitively expensive; dressage not everyone’s cup of tea

In 1580, the Hapsburg Archduke Charles II of Austria founded the Court Stud near the village Lipizza. In the centuries that followed, using Spanish horses and Italian horses with Spanish ancestry, the Hapsburg Emperors raised a breed of horses that was ...