Vienna, Austria

An all-time favourite, the Blue Danube (1866), written by “waltz king” Johann Strauss II, is broadcast at midnight on New Year’s Eve on Austrian TV and radio, then played live by the Vienna Philharmonic the next morning in the gilded Musikverein to a global audience. This annual New Year’s Day tradition was long seen as uncomfortably nationalistic. Now it’s enjoyed as a light-hearted nostalgia trip back to the balls of old Vienna. (via Guardian)

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