Spanish Riding School
The Spanish Riding School—Spanische Hofreitschule—was founded in 1572 in Vienna and exists to preserve classical dressage by training Lipizzaner horses. Its ceremonies and performances are tied to the Hofburg, where the leading horses and riders have also toured worldwide. At the center of the school’s training is the Winter Riding School, built between 1729 and 1735. Emperor Charles VI commissioned architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach to create the white riding hall used today, after an earlier wooden arena had operated at Josefsplatz. The hall’s interior measures 55 by 18 metres, rising 17 metres high, with a royal box and a portrait of Charles VI above it—before each ride, the riders salute the hall’s entrance. This continuity is why the school is counted among the “Big Four” classical academies, alongside the Cadre Noir, the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art, and the Royal Andalusian School. …
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