Vienna - Hotel Sacher

Vienna's most famous old-world hotel, the Sacher, still preserves its style and quality, with silk tablecloths, Biedermeier furniture from the mid 19th C. and valuable pictures. Important state receptions still take place in the nostalgic marble hall. Eduard Sacher had the hotel built in 1876. But his cigar- smoking wife Anna Sacher became more famous than he did. She used to allow unlimited credit to the offspring of rich parents - the so-called "Sacher lads" - until they came into their inheritances. She also organized those discreet little "séparées" which have survived at any rate in Arthur Schnitzler's "Abschiedssouper" (The Farewell Supper). Now the famous "separate rooms" have become little dining rooms. The legendary Sachertorte