The Albertina Possesses 45,000 drawings and watercolors, about 1.5 million printed sheets of graphic material covering a period of half a millennium and 35,000 books – it is the world’s most comprehensive collection of graphic material. The collectio...

The oldest square in Vienna is found on the edge of the textile district (called “Fetzenviertel“ by the Viennese, meaning “the rag district”). It is rich with memories that go back to the very start of the city’s history. The Romans called it the “Ol...

This theater, “Die Burg” as the Viennese call it, is the stage with the richest traditions in the German-speaking lands. For a long time it was also the most important. The classical style of the Burg theater and the German spoken by the players exer...

Figarohaus (Mozart Memorial Rooms) stands on Schulerstrasse which leads out of Stephansplatz. For three years, from 1784 to 1787, Mozart lived here with his wife and son on the first floor of this typical old Viennese house neat St. Stephen’s Cathedr...

Graben, a wide-open space which is half street and half square, is the hub of the great city of Vienna. In 1950 it was the first place to have fluorescent lighting. In 1971 it became the first pedestrian zone, and soon afterwards cafes took over for ...

The Imperial Castle in the inner city was for more than six centuries the seat of the rulers of Austria. From here the Habsburgs ruled until the end of the First World War in 1918. European history was written in this seat of power, from here Empress...

The Capuchin Church dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels, is as befits a Mendicant Order vowed to poverty, modest, sober and almost totally lacking in ornamentation. Nothing visible reminds us that it was founded by an empress in 1618. the most precio...

The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History), its mightly dome crowned by a bronze figure of Pallas Athene, houses on of the most important art collections in the world. It underwent restoration at the beginning of the nineties. In the second...

Vienna’s most elegant shopping street leads from Stephansplatz to the Staatsoper on the Ring and ends at Karlsplatz. Since 1974 it has been a pedestrian precinct as far as Walfischgasse, with lime trees, pavement cafés, traditional and fashionable sh...

The former Minorities’ church has offically been named the Snow Madonna Italian National Church since 1786. it has been a Franciscan church since 1957.

The first church of the “Frates Minores” in Vienna dates from 1230. it was a little chapel...

The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Music Lovers’ Society) was founded in 1812. In 1867 it commissioned Theophil Hansen – who later designed the Parlament building – to draw up plans for this building. The terracotta statues pm zje soemma-red Neo-Rena...

The Natural History Museum is the counterpart of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which lies directly opposite. It was designed like the latter, by G. Semper and K. Hasenauer and was completed in 1881. The exhibits are displayed in 39 galleries and a ...

Since 1918 the meetings of the National and Federal Parliament have been held in these impressive buildings. Measuring 137 m (450 ft) wide and 145 m (475 ft) long, they had been built between 1873 and 1883 by Theophil Hansen for the Imperial and Prov...

The Collegial and Parish Church of St Peter is modelled on St Peter’s Rome. According to tradition, the site was originally occupied by a late Roman church, and then by one founded by Charlemagne in 792. the first documentary evidence for a church ...

The Town Hall is just over one hundred years old. The impressive Neo-Gothic building is the seat of the Vienna City and Provincial Assembly and is the administrative centre of the city. The huge building, occupying nearly 14,000 sq. m (153,000 sq ft)...

St. Ruprecht’s (Rupert’s) church is the oldest church in Vienna. It stands high up on the eastern edge of the old Roman military settlement. It is said to have been built by Bishop Virgil of Salzburg on the site of the subterranean Oratory of Cunard ...

The University buildings were erected during the period when the Ringstrasse was being developed. The plans were by Heinrich Ferstel, who took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance style, the era which ushered in the “Golden Aged” of European scie...

The Prater, the large natural park between the Danube and the right-hand Danube Canal, is almost like another world. It is lively and exciting by day and something of a twilight zone by night. The park covers an area of some 1287 ha (3200 acres), str...

At the request of the mayor of Vienna, Leopold Graz, the painter Friedensreich, Hundertwasser let his imagination take over and designed the “nature and human-friendly” house on the corner of Löwengasse/Kegelstrasse in 1977. it was built between 1983...

In April 1991 the KuntHausWien (art gallery) opened its doors, a double monument to the architect and painter Friedensreich Hunderwasser: the museum being an exhibit in itself and an exhibition hall for the varied work of this rebel architect. The ho...

The Church dedicated to St Charles Borromeo was designed by J.B. Fisher von Erlach and his son. It is vienna’s most important religious building in the Baroque style. Emperor Cherles VI vowed he would build it when the plague was raging in 1713, and ...

In 1986, to celebrate and honour the second centenary of the Viennese garrison regiment, the K. and K. Hoch- und Deutshmeister Nr. 4(the Fourth Royal and Imperial High and German Masters), and money was raised for a memorial. It was inaugurated in 19...

Sigmund Freud lived in house at 19 Berggasse for almost half a century, from 1891 to 1938. This is where the Father of Psychoanalysis wrote his standard works such as “The Interpretation of Dreams”(1900), received the official announcement in 902 tha...

The prebendal church Zum Göttlichen Heiland was built as a votive offering after the abortive attempt in 1853 to assassinate Franz Joseph I. Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Franz Joseph’s brother, who was later to become Emperor of Mexico, led the eay...

Wellness heißt, sich rundum wohlfühlen - körperlich, geistig und sozial. Immer mehr Menschen, die den Herausforderungen der Zukunft gewachsen sein wollen, schätzen diesen Lebensstil. Die Therme Oberlaa bietet mit den 3 Bereichen Thermalbad, Kurmi...

In 1559 Emperor Maximilian II acquired a small summer palace in a converted mill on this site. After the glorious defeat of the Turks in 1683 Emperor Leopold I commissioned J.B. Fischer von Erlach to design an Imperial palace on the site of the littl...

The little village of Grinzing is first mentioned in records in 1114. it was destroyed by the Turks in 1529 and there was a great fire in 1604. the village was destroyed again by the Turks in 1683, and in 1809 by the French. Nowadays there is another...

Kahlenberg stands 484 m (1585 ft) high. It is, so to speak, Vienna’s own “mountain” and virtually the last part of the Vienna woods to the east. There is a magnificent view from the terrace with its fine Heurige restaurant. Nearby are the vineyards o...

Karls Marx Hof is the symbol of the 398 housing complexes which were built between the wars by the social democratic city council (1919-34) and immortalized in a workers’ song as the “little red brick build a new world”. There were 64,000 dwellings ...

Following measures taken in the early 1970s to construct the Danube Relief Channel, UNO-City and an international conference centre, the Austria Center Vienna, were created at the end of the Danube Bridge which lies opposite the Altstadt. In years to...