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| Vienna Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see tram stop tram stop michaela a. gabriel, vienna Austria’s wonderful capital Vienna spreads along both sides of the “Blue” Danube (which, as the Viennese are certain to point out, is actually muddy brown) at the very foothills of the Alps. The city is a smorgasbord of Baroque with a dash of art nouveau. Circling the old town (or Innere Stadt) is the striking revivalist architecture of the Ringstrasse, Vienna’s main boulevard. These buildings range from the charming Opera House to the monumental Natural History Museum. Nestled throughout the city are the graceful art-nouveau buildings of turn-of-the century architects Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos. The buildings are one of the many remnants of the artistic and intellectual flowering that took place in Vienna at the turn of the century. Of course, the buildings and the city’s history are only a backdrop for the daily culture that can still be found in the concert halls, opera houses, and cafes. Before traveling to Vienna, try to reserve tickets to the main attractions in advance, as ticket requests from outside of the country are given priority. We recommend the Vienna State Opera, the Spanish Riding School with its famous Lipizzaner stallions, and the Vienna Boys Choir, which is particularly moving. If tickets for the State Opera aren’t available try, the Volksoper, which features operettas, musicals, and ballets. If all else fails, the Gothic Rathaus (city hall) hosts a popular Christmas market in the winter and free concerts in the summer. Take a tour of the city to get oriented either on foot or in a Fiaker (a horse-drawn carriage). If you’d prefer a more elevated impression of the city, go up to the top of the Donauturm (Danube Tower)—at 846 ft/258 m it provides quite a panorama from its observation platform, as well as two revolving restaurants. You can see from there that Vienna is quite a large city — its sights are dispersed throughout so you’ll want to buy bus/subway passes for the number of days that you’ll be there. The pulse of the city can be found along Ringstrasse, according to most tourist guides. Perhaps they are correct, if we think of Vienna as a 19th-century invention. As you walk around the area, be sure to take a break at a sidewalk cafe and have one of the city’s superb pastries. The Viennese invented cafe society, and there is no better pastime than to linger over a torte, read a newspaper and watch the Viennese. Each café has its own personality; while the lavish cafes inside the Ringstrasse are most impressive, the smaller ones just outside have a charm and authenticity that should also not be missed. And don’t just stick to coffee — the Austrian fruit teas and black teas are so flavorful that you’ll wonder what you’ve been drinking all these years. Other cafes that are not as stodgy and expensive as the ones on the Ring are the illustrious, beautiful and comfortable Cafe Sperl (2nd district); any of the cafes near the Naschmarkt, Freud's house, the house designed by Wittgenstein, and gorgeous St. Charles Church--a must-see; Hawelka (1st district); Brauenerhof, where the lacerating and hilarious writer Thomas Bernhard spent his mornings (1st district); and many others. While the Biedermaier pulse of Vienna, long associated with the upper-middle class and collective repression, may be found along the Ring, its darkly satirical flip side is found in these and similar haunts. After a coffee or a cup of tea you should be ready to visit one of the many world-class museums along the Ring. The Kunsthistorisches Museum has works of art by Bruegel, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Titian, as well as Roman and Egyptian antiquities. Just across the plaza is the Naturhistorisches Museum, which has the 25,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf, one of the oldest works of art in existence. The Museum of Applied Art, located farther down the Ring, has an amazing one-million piece-collection of Rococo Baroque and Jugendstil furniture, glass porcelain, and fabric. Just off the Ring is the brilliant Secession Building, one of the must-sees of Vienna. Built as a reaction to the overblown Ringstrasse buildings, the museum is a work of art in itself, and—except for Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze—generally better than the hit-or-miss contemporary art exhibited inside. If the Ringstrasse is the pulse of the city, the Innere Stadt (the old city) is the heart. This is where the city’s main attractions are located, and since it is a pedestrian zone, it is also a great place to stroll. For an overview, climb the bell tower of the 450-ft-/137-m-high St. Stephen’s Cathedral. The cathedral, built in 1258, is easily identifiable by the zigzag pattern of its roof tiles. Between St. Stephen’s and the State Opera House is Karntnerstrasse, Vienna’s main shopping street. Nearby is the Albertina museum, which houses more than 200 000 drawings (works by Albrecht Durer among others). At another corner of the old city is the Hofburg Palace, a massive complex that contains the Burgkapelle (the chapel where the Boys Choir sings Mass), the Stallburg (where the Spanish Riding School performs on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings), the Imperial Treasuries (Habsburg Crown Jewels), and the elaborate Austrian National Library. Across the river from the old city is Prater Park, an enjoyable amusement park that dates from the 18th century. The park’s main attraction is the Riesenrad, the giant Ferris wheel seen in the film The Third Man (the film plays every summer in one of the theaters on the Ring), and the goofy statues scattered around the park, one of which shows a enormous baby taking his tiny father for a walk. On the other side of the old city near the Südbahnhof is the Belvedere Palace, which houses a stunning collection of Viennese art from the art-nouveau era, including Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss.” These enchanting pictures are reason enough to visit Vienna. The palace also has a spacious garden with a great view of the city. Another enjoyable museum is the quirky KunstHausWien designed by the artist Hundertwasser. The museum is a fantasy of colorful and lumpy tile floors and peculiar architecture (trees grow out of the third floor window). Just down the street is a block of apartments that was also designed by the artist. Though not open to visitors, the colorful fairy-castle facade always draws a crowd of onlookers. If you still have a hankering for modern art, visit the Museum of the 20th Century. You'll thoroughly enjoy seeing the homes of famous Viennese: Sigmund Freud (his psychoanalytic couch and other possessions are on display), Johann Strauss Jr. (where he composed The Blue Danube ), Beethoven (he wrote his Third Symphony here), and Mozart (called Figarohaus: it’s where he composed The Marriage of Figaro). In addition, you'll also enjoy seeing where some famous Viennese are buried! Probably the most famous grave is Mozart’s, hidden somewhere in the cemetery in village of St. Marx— when he died the great composer was buried in a communal grave, not a pauper's grave as many people believe. Vienna later began to bury its famous people in clearly marked graves in the Central Cemetery, which now holds the graves of Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schoenberg, and other Viennese dignitaries. To round out the cemetery tour, travelers can visit the Imperial Burial Vault (Kaisergruft), the final resting place of the emperors and empresses of the last 300 years of the House of Habsburg. As a matter of fact, the Augustinerkirche vault houses the hearts - literally - of many of the Habsburgs. Visitors shouldn’t miss the elaborate 17th-century Schönbrunn Palace, which was the Habsburg summer home. Often crowded with sightseers it is nonetheless a must-see. Highlights include the State Rooms, the Hall of Mirrors (where Mozart made his debut at the age of 6), the magnificent Wagenburg Imperial Coach collection, the enormous gardens, and the Tiergarten, Europe’s oldest zoo. If you feel like taking a short excursion out of the city, consider having a picnic in the Vienna Woods (beech-covered hills), relaxing in the charming wine gardens attached to nearby vineyards, or strolling along the scenic Danube River. There are also several sights nearby Vienna that merit a visit if you have the time. One is Klosterneuburg, an abbey begun in the 12th century, which features the Verdun Altar. Also south of the city is Baden, a pretty wooded town where Beethoven and Mozart lived. Appropriate to its name, Baden has a huge open-air thermal bathing complex with a treatment center. The town’s sulphuric waters are believed to provide healing; following the footsteps of Mozart’s wife Constanze, thousands go there every year seeking rejuvenation, and once rejuvenated, they attend festivals and operettas (in the summer) or head to the casino. Another composer’s town was Eisenstadt south of Vienna, where Joseph Haydn lived (he was court musician at the Esterhazy Palace). And don’t miss St. Polten, with its Baroque frescoes; and (in summer) Rust and its famous storks. Every year orchestras from around the world take part in The Vienna International Festival. Churches, mansions, and palaces across the city host more than 150 different concerts ranging from sacred music to opera and choral music to symphony. _____________Sights Edit This Karlskirche Karlskirche Hans Lohninger / www.photoglobe.info Vienna has a historical centre, bound to the northeast by the Danube canal and surrounded on a all other sides by the majestic sweep of the Ringstrasse. From here, the main arteries of communication radiate outwards. Most of the important sights are concentrated in this tourist-clogged district and along the Ring, but a lot of essential Vienna lies beyond it, in the initially forbidding grid of barracks-like 19th century apartment blocks. There are also outlaying sights, such as Schloss Schönbrunn, or the funfair and parklands of the Prater. To discover Vienna by walking needs more than only some days, but public transport items are comprehensive and helpful. Display all or display just: Churches Landmarks Museums Operas & Theatres Palaces Show best rated on top | Show in alphabetical order [Add Sight] Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Edit This Next to Stephansdom. Here the church silver is outshone by a collection of marvellous 15th century devotional paintings. type: Museums World66 rating: [rate it] address: Stephansplatz 6 openinghours: Tue, Wed, Fri and Sat 10am - 4pm, Thu 10am - 6pm, Sun 10am - 1pm Hofburg Palace Edit This Leopold Wing of the Hofburg Palace Leopold Wing of the Hofburg Palace photo by: T. E. Watts The Hofburg Palace is a massive complex; it was once the seat of one of the largest empires in Europe. The palace was the home of the Habsburg dynasty and served as the seat of the Emperor of Austria until 1918. The complex was expanded numerous times over the years, but its earliest origins date to the 13th century. It now houses various museums, chapels, the treasury, national theater, and the world famous Spanish Riding School. It's rather crowded in the summer, as it's one of the most popular tourist destinations in the city. FYI, if you're going to see the Spanish more.. type: Palaces World66 rating: [rate it] Wiener Staatsoper Edit This The Staatsoper is considered to be the N°1 Opera House of Central Europe. Even if you're not into that kind of culture, the impressing building itself is worth a visit. Show up there two hours before the regular start of the perfomance and you can get tickets for as little money as 20 Austrian shillings (US$ 1.50). When they are playing to a full house, there are no seats for holders of these cheap tickets, but the atmosphere in the standing room is funny anyway and most days enough seats remain free. T-shirt and jeans is also ok as long as you do not attend to a premiere. more.. type: Landmarks World66 rating: [rate it] address: Opernring, 1. Bezirk url: www.wiener-staatsoper.at Karlskirche Edit This Karlskirche Karlskirche photo by: Hans Lohninger / www.photoglobe.info Probably the most pompous church in the whole of Austria. The brilliant white Baroque church with it's two thin towers and green roof is certainly worth a visit. The interior is pleasantly light and covered in colourful fresco's. The church is dedicated to saint Carlo Borromeo and was built by Emperor Karl VI in the early 18th century. The Karlskirche is the crowning achievement of Austria's foremost Baroque architect, Fischer von Erlach. Built by order of Emperor Karl IV in thanks for deliverance from the plague of 1713, it is an aclectic jumble, with an oval dome perched more.. type: Churches World66 rating: [rate it] address: Karlsplatz Stephansdom Edit This Stephansdom, Vienna Stephansdom, Vienna photo by: Hans-Peter Harmsen The heart of the inner city. The 'Steffl', like some locals call it, dominates the Stephansplatz and the Vienna skyline with its Gothic bulk and the brightly coloured chevrons of its tiled roof. Inside, the high vaulted interior is studded with Baroque details. The highlight is an early 16th century carved stone pulpit with portraits of the four fathers of Christian church, sculpted by Anton Pilgram. The area beyond the transepts is roped off, so to get a good look at the Wiener Neustädter Altar, a masterpiece of late Gothic art. Another feature of interest is the more.. type: Churches World66 rating: [rate it] address: Stephansplatz openinghours: Mot - Sat 9am - noon and 1pm - 5pm, Sun 12.30-5pm, entrance free Jesuitenkirche Edit This Built in the 17th century this church is a valuable piece of early Baroque architecture, much of the sumptuous interior is a work of Andrea Pozzo, who was invited to Vienna by Leopold I to spearhead the city's artistic revival with an injection of Italian Jesuit style. type: Churches World66 rating: [rate it] Museum der Stadt Wien Edit This This museum includes three floors of medieval sculpture and paintings, arms and armour recalling the city's struggles against the Turks, a reconstruction of Adolf Loos's ascetic living quarters, several works by Klimt and Schiele, and a model of the city as it was before the Ring was built. type: Museums World66 rating: [rate it] address: Karlsplatz openinghours: Tue - Sun 9am - 4.30pm Kunsthistorisches Museum Edit This This late nineteenth-century museum (and its twin, the "Naturhistorisches Museum" on the opposite site of the court) has been designed to accomodate the vast imperial collections. It hosts one of the richest fine art collections in the world. Its ground floor is largely given over to decorative arts and the ancient world, with impressive Egyptian, Greek and Roman collections, while the fine arts section upstairs offers a fine perspective on the German Renaissance. Canvases of Danubian painters like Albrecht Altdorfer and two Lucas Cranachs providing a link between the medieval more.. type: Museums World66 rating: [rate it] address: Maria-Theresien-Platz openinghours: Tue - Sun 10am - 6pm Burgtheater Edit This The Burgtheater is the theatre where Thomas Bernhard became the top scandal playwright of the German speaking world in the 80's. They are still playing a lot of his stuff (don't miss Heldenplatz) and many other strange plays. Its certainly not the place to go, when you think theatre should be played like it was a hundred years ago, even though the Burgtheater is located in a marvellous 19th century building. Ask for student tickets here (50 ÖS = US$ 4.00). See the Burgtheater programme type: Operas & Theatres World66 rating: [rate it] address: Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring, 1. Bezirk Schatzkammer des Deutschen Ordens Edit This In the Treasury of the Order of Teutonic Knights you can view ceremonial regalia and domestic trinkets assembled by seven centuries of Grand Masters. Enjoy the almost pastorally peaceful courtyard to the rear. type: Museums World66 rating: [rate it] address: Singerstrasse 7 Jüdisches Museum Edit This Excellent temporary exhibitions on the first floor are mostly on contemporary Jewish life, while on the second floor, visitors are confronted with a series of free-standing glass panels imprinted with holograms of the city's once vast Jewish population. type: Museums World66 rating: [rate it] address: Dorotheengasse 11 openinghours: daily except Sat 10am-6pm, Thu 10am - 9pm Museum für Völkerkunde Edit This A seperate entrance in the "Neue Burg" leads to this museum, which features the collections of Captain Cook, Aztek treasures and other ethnological exhibits. type: Museums World66 rating: [rate it] address: Heldenplatz (Neue Burg) openinghours: dauly except Tue: Jan - Mar 10am - 6pm, Apr - Dec 10am - 4pm _____________History Edit This Most visitors connect Vienna with a romantic place full of Habsburg nostalgia and musical resonances. It is, still today, but more. The first settlement of any substance was Roman. The city was called Vindobona, but was in fact never more than a garrison town. It was only with the rise of the Babenberg clan in the tenth century that Vienna became an important city. In the 1278 the city fell to Rudolf of Habsburg, but had to compete for centuries with Prague, Linz and Graz as the imperial residence on account of its vulnerability to attack from the Turks, who first laid siege to it in 1529. It was only with the removal of the Turkish threat in 1683 that the court based itself here permanently. The great aristocratic families, grown fat on the profits of the Turkish wars, flooded in to build palaces and summer residences in a frenzy of construction that gave Vienna its Baroque character. Imperial Vienna was never a wholly German city: as the capital of a cosmopolitan empire, it attracted great minds from all over central and eastern Europe. By the end of the Habsburg era it had become a breeding ground for the ideological movements of the age: nationalism, socialism, zionism and anti-semitism, all flourished here. This turbulence was reflected in the cultural sphere, and the ghosts of Freud, Klimt, Schiele, Mahler and Schönberg are nowadays bigger tourist draws than the old stand-bys like the Lippizaner horses or the Vienna Boy's Choir. __________Webcams & 360 degree pics Edit This Contributors October 09, 2006 new by svetico [Add Webcam] Vienna State Opera Edit This Virtual tour with a lot of panoramas. World66 rating: [rate it] url: www.wiener-staatsoper.at __________Practical Information Edit This I am new to the site but have lived in Wein for 2 years , speak Deutsch,and am a motorad(motorcycle) enthusiast...living -working in Europe many,many years. I will ( if you read Barcelona) only commment on biking in Austria.It is perhaps the cleanest nation ,with recycling and a Germanic "alles in ordinung" mentality that although is prototypically anal..none the less appreciated as a "Sound of Music"vista.please read Barcelona "motos" or you will miss the jist of my point of view.Visit the Wiennerwald(Vienna woods) just out side the city up by the old historic church in May for spring wine and a great view at 600m.Next, if you are a real rider the boys and girls met every weekend near Baden...call for the H-D American bar in the !st district near Riemergasse St.the owners will tell you where to go and who to party with.In general...the country side is " beyond imagination"green, nature, clean, cheaper,stay in guest hauses, a must see is Grossglockner hoch alpine strasse...stay in Zell am Zee, Bruch, or come from Saltzburg SW to the "High Towers" natural park area....be prepared to go to heaven...only for expeienced riders who can contoll themselves...I apparently can not having crash twice in sudden summer ice storm at 12,000 ft....I am not dead yet and bikes are made to be repaired.Visit the Salzburglanderegion of lakes and bathes(Bad)Short rental are available with a m/c license.Eidelweisse Tours are prmo but cost,HQ is Vienna.just call.This could be a 10 page account of when and where to go but I am assuming the average reader is on a shorter budget/time span than mine was...so just read the Barcelona moto section and extrapilate and pick up pointers. ________Getting Around Edit This Vienna has an exellent public transport system of trams, busses and subways. Since it's a large town and there's not much (free) parking space available, public transport is the easiest and cheapest way to get around. You can get a wide range of tickets, including tickets valid for an hour (1,5 EUR), 24 Hrs. (5 EUR), 7 days (12.5 EUR), etc. The advantage of an 8 day-ticket is that it doesn't have to be 8 consecutive days. It doesn't even have to be 8 days, you can use it for more than one person at a time, for instance, 2 people can travel on it for 4 days. All these tickets are valid in the entire Vienna district, in all busses, trams and subways. [Add Local transport mode] trams Edit This trams World66 rating: [rate it] address: Schonbrunn Palce ___________-Getting There Edit This By train: Trains from western regions and from Hungary terminate at the Westbahnhof, situated on the outer ring road or Gürtel, 2 km west of the centre close to Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna's brashest shopping street. From here the U-Bahn metro line U3 leads directly into the city centre. Trains from eastern Europe, Italy and the Balkans arrive at the Südbahnhof, 2 km south of the centre. from here tram "D" goes down Prinz-Eugen-Strasse to Schwarzenbergplatz and the Ring. Some trains arrive ar Wien-Nord (North of centre, take U-Bahn Praterstern) or at Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof, connected to the Ring by tram "D". By bus: Most international buses arrive at Vienna's main bus terminal beside Wien-Mitte, on the eastern edge of the city centre (U-Bahn Landstrasse). By plane: Vienna's airport is called Wien-Schwechat and is located 20 km outside the centre. It is connected to the city centre by the S-Bahn-line S7, which runs underneath the airport. Trains leave every 30min, taking half an hour to reach Wien-Mitte, near the Ring. In addition, there is a reguler bus, which runs every 20 min o the City Air Terminal, next door to Wien-Mitte. Other buss run from the airport to both main train stations. _________Nightlife and Entertainment Edit This i For nightlife you have several options. If you’re there during opera season and are lucky enough to have opera tickets eat an early dinner enjoy the performance and end with coffee and a Sacher torte at the cafe in the Hotel Sacher. Or you might go to the part of the central district known as the Bermuda Triangle where the small restaurants and the bars are open late. A third possibility would be to head for a Heurigen (a wine bar) for an evening of music and tasting of the year’s new wine (Sturm). Display all or display just: Casinos Clubs and dancing Gay and Lesbian Noble to decadent Student Pubs & Bars Theatres & Operas general Show best rated on top | Show in alphabetical order [Add Entertainment place] Chelsea Edit This Pub with little dancefloor, the music they play focuses on rock. The right place to get involved in an all-night-long booze-up. Often open til morning. Subway: Josefstädter Strasse, 8th district. type: Student Pubs & Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Hernalser Gürtel Schikaneder Edit This Alternative place near Karlsplatz with some strange art in the window and lots of comfortable sofas to lounge in. There's often live music or a dj, and you can buy tickets for the small movie art house next door. Subway: Karlsplatz, 5th district. type: Student Pubs & Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Margaretengasse Flex Edit This i_1 One of the best Clubs in Europe (Magazine Spex). Though they were a bit more underground years ago, there ist a really good music-program to enjoy. But beware of the waiters - they aren't always the nicest on earth. type: Clubs and dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: Donaukanallaende (Ring-Kai) nearby the Ringturm Passage Edit This What once was a pedestrian underpass at one of Vienna's pivotal points is now about to become the cityís hippest hotspot for distinguished nightlife. Since the early 60ís the Babenberger Passage with its four exits provided the subterranean connection for all corners of one rather special crossover in the centre of Vienna. The always busy and bustling shopping-boulevard Mariahilfer Stra?e at this point meets Vienna's most famous avenue, the broad and gorgeous Ring. Now this is where a night club with international flair will soon open its gates. Downstairs below the avenue, more.. type: Clubs and dancing World66 rating: [rate it] ClosingTime: 6 am tel: 00431/961 88 00 url: www.sunshine.at address: Burgring/Babenberger Strasse email: office@sunshine.at Burgtheater Edit This The Burgtheater is the theatre where Thomas Bernhard became the top scandal playwright of the German speaking world in the 80's. They are still playing a lot of his stuff (don't miss Heldenplatz) and many other strange plays. Its certainly not the place to go, when you think theatre should be played like it was a hundred years ago, even though the Burgtheater is located in a marvellous 19th century building. Ask for student tickets here (50 ÖS = US$ 4.00). See the Burgtheater programme type: Theatres & Operas World66 rating: [rate it] address: Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring, 1. Bezirk Spittelberg Edit This Student clientele, plenty of pubs and bars, lots of places to sit outside in summer. Subway: Volkstheater, 7th district. type: Student Pubs & Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Pub district between Burggasse and Siebensterngasse Planter's Club Edit This A beautifully furnished Cocktail Bar. Go there for the most decadent and fragrant piss of your life (onto icecubes and sliced lemons, no joke). Subway: Schottentor or Schottenring, 1st district. type: Noble to decadent World66 rating: [rate it] address: Zelinkagasse 4, 200m from Vienna Stock Exchange. Vienna State Opera Edit This The Staatsoper is considered to be the N°1 Opera House of Central Europe. Even if you're not into that kind of culture, the impressing building itself is worth a visit. Show up there two hours before the regular start of the perfomance and you can get tickets for as little money as 20 Austrian shillings (US$ 1.50). When they are playing to a full house, there are no seats for holders of these cheap tickets, but the atmosphere in the standing room is funny anyway and most days enough seats remain free. T-shirt and jeans is also OK as long as you do not attend to more.. type: Casinos World66 rating: [rate it] address: Opernring, 1. Bezirk url: www.classicworld.at Tunnel Edit This Beer, Wine and Food (Pizza, Pasta, Arabic stuff) at modest prices. Great breakfast variety for about US$ 2.50. Very gemütlich place. Service is unfriendly enough to remind you that you're in Vienna. Livemusic in the cellar (therefore Tunnel) on most evenings, sometimes entrance free. When you get in, remain the waiters that you are there, specialy if you sit on the second floor. 8.Florianigasse Subway: Josefstädter Strasse or Schottentor, 8th district. type: Casinos World66 rating: [rate it] address: Florianigasse. Palmenhaus Edit This A beautiful bar located inside an Jugendstill old glass house from around 1900. The main part is a restaurant, but there's a separate bar area left of the entrance where you can sit under the high glass domes between large potted plants and choose from dozens of wines, liquors and other drinks. Subway: Babenbergerstrasse, 1st district. type: Noble to decadent World66 rating: [rate it] address: Burggarten. Cafe Berg Edit This A pleasant cafe with a mixed gay/straight clientele. Located near the University, the Votifkirche and the Palais Luxembourg, it's an ideal place for a quiet cup of coffee or a huge mug of tea. Subway: Schottentor, 9th district. type: Gay and Lesbian World66 rating: [rate it] address: Corner of Berggasse and Wasagasse. Maria's Cantina Edit This Go there for an unpredictable night. Don't show up before 11 p.m. Dance to Salsa rhythms, meet the young and beautiful. The place is obviously run by alcoholics, after 2 a.m. the staff sometimes goes mad and forgets to earn money. Fun, as long as you like tequila. For some reason the best day there used to be Wednesday. Subway: Volksoper, 9th district. type: Student Pubs & Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Schubertgasse. Cafe Spitt Edit This Pleasant, unpretentious student place with brown wall panels and flowered curtains. It's cosy place and the waitress is un-Viennese friendly. Try the exellent cider-like Radler beer. Subway: Friedensbrücke, 9th district type: general World66 rating: [rate it] address: Fuchtshallergasse. The Guess Club Edit This An exquisite bar with an impressing assortment of liquors and cocktails. Apart from some free internet terminals the place isn't really cheap... Subway: Neubaugasse,6th district. type: Noble to decadent World66 rating: [rate it] address: Kaunitzgasse, near Apollo Cinema ________Things to do Edit This Austrian Dinner Show Austrian Dinner Show Dinner & Show Gmbh [Add Activity] Austrian Dinner Show Edit This Austrian Dinner Show Austrian Dinner Show photo by: Dinner & Show Gmbh Austrian Dinner Show The "Austrian Dinner Show Ensemble" consists of highly talented musicians, excellent vocal soloists and spirited dancers, who appear in colourful local costumes of the various musicial regions visited. In a charming manner they will enchant your clients with their performance of the musical treasures of Austria. Part or or all of this text stems from the original article at: http://vienna.classicworld.at/index.php?p=34&l=2&c=1&d=12&id=7 type: Other World66 rating: [rate it] tel: +436604455566 url: www.classicworld.at address: Rathauspaltz 1 email: office@classicworld.at |
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Guide Vienna Travel Guide and Vienna Travel Information - TravelPuppy.com Vienna (Wien) is a unique blend of the historic and the modern, so full of tradition it can be read on the face of the city and with a forward-looking approach it will surprise the visitor. Vienna’s role as the seat of the Hapsburg Empire for centuries can be seen in the wealth of architecture and in the city’s artistic and musical heritage. Many of the world’s most important composers, including Beethoven and Mozart, have lived and performed behind Vienna’s Baroque façades. In addition to this Baroque splendour, there are excellent examples of the Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) architecture that also flourished here. The fall of the Hapsburg Empire, at the end of World War I, allowed Vienna’s socialist undercurrents to come to the fore during the Red Vienna period, resulting in numerous social housing and other projects, which still play a role in the city. Vienna’s occupation by the Nazis and subsequent partitioning by the 4 Allied powers tend to be forgotten, as the city instead focuses on its post-war neutrality and the glittering remnants of its Imperial glory. This seems to be reinforced by the image of older Viennese walking small dogs or eating cakes in cafés but it ignores the energy of Vienna’s alternative and underground scenes, whose members react against the attachment to tradition in a way similar to their Secessionist counterparts before. The original city that lay within the protective walls comprises the First District of modern Vienna. Vienna is divided into 23 Bezirke (districts) and the demolition of the city walls led to the construction of the Ringstrasse and an impressive parade of buildings along its length. The majority of the tourist attractions lie on and within the Ringstrasse. Districts 2 to 9 are arrayed between the Ringstrasse and the concentric Gürtel (Belt). The other districts lie beyond the Gürtel and extend into the foothills of the Wienerwald (Vienna Woods), where Heurigen (wine taverns) and pretty villages are dotted among the vineyards. Vienna’s climate is generally moderate, although the city can experience some heavy snowfalls and low temperatures from December to March, as well as occasionally very high temperatures during July and August. Summer, however, is usually comfortable with an average daily temperature of 20°C, although heavy thundershowers are not uncommon. The city is not only the capital of Austria but also a federal province as well, surrounded by Niederösterreich (Lower Austria). Vienna’s location on the east–west trade route along the River Danube played an important part in its history, an empire that once covered a large part of Europe was ruled from here. Even today, Vienna is the financial and administrative capital of Austria and home to a number of international organisations, including the United Nations, and with the fall of Communism, Vienna is once again at the centre of Europe. Useful travel link |
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Vienna (Wien in tedesco) è la capitale e allo stesso tempo uno stato federato dell'Austria, completamente circondato dalla Bassa Austria. Vienna è sede di importanti organizzazioni internazionali tra le quali: OPEC, AIEA e ONU. Il centro storico della città è stato dichiarato patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO.
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Geografia
La città, situata nel Nord-Est dell'Austria, dista 40 km dal confine con la Slovacchia e circa 50 km da Bratislava (capitale della medesima). La città è composta da 23 distretti (in tedesco Bezirke, per approfondimenti vedi Distretti di Vienna) e il centro della città è il primo distretto. Gli altri distretti si susseguono a spirale intorno al primo distretto con numero crescente. La periferia cittadina è pianeggiante e industrializzata a sud, collinosa e verdeggiante a nord ai piedi del Wienerwald (foresta viennese). L'anello (Ring) che circonda il centro storico, è oggigiorno una strada di raccordo; in passato invece accoglieva le mura della città. Una secondo anello intorno al centro storico, la cosiddetta "cintura" (Gürtel) è oggigiorno la strada più frequentata di tutta la città, con molto traffico e una linea sopraelevata (U6) della metropolitana che la percorre in buona parte, dalla Westbahnhof a ovest fino al Danubio a nord. La città è attraversata nella sua parte orientale dal Danubio, mentre un piccolo canale artificiale (il Donaukanal) lambisce il centro storico a est. Vienna presenta sul Danubio un'isola creata artificialmente, per proteggerla da eventuali innondazioni. L'isola viene utilizzata dagli abitanti per praticare dello sport o per rilassarsi sotto il sole, inoltre una volta all'anno (verso la fine di giugno) vi si festeggia per 3 giorni consecutivi il Donauinselfest. Panoramica di tutta la città di Vienna
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StoriaNel luogo dell'odierna città, abitata in età antica dai Celti, i Romani attorno al 100 d.C. stabilirono un campo militare che venne chiamato Vindobona, a protezione della vicina città di Carnuntum. Successivamente vi si stabilirono anche civili, e l'imperatore Marco Aurelio vi morì probabilmente colpito dalla peste. Ancora oggi è possibile vedere le vecchie mura erette tra il 100 e 500, l'odierna Vienna presenta al suo centro stradine che rispecchiano all'incirca l'antica struttura. Data la posizione molto esposta verso l'est, Vindobona fu presto oggetto di conquista dei vari popoli che cercavano di penetrare in Europa, tra i quali i Bizantini, i Longobardi, i Magiari e gli Slavi. La città riottenne la sua posizione centrale nella zona dopo che Carlomagno la inglobò nella Marca Orientale (Ostmark), tuttavia essa dovette ancora difendersi dalle invasioni - questa volta degli ungheresi - finché nel 955 Ottone I, imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero, non scacciò questi definitivamente ricostituendo la Marca e donando Vienna nel 976 alla dinastia dei Babenberg, conferendo a Leopoldo di Babenberg il titolo di magravio. La dinastia dà a Vienna il ruolo primario che gli spetta nella regione, dovendo tuttavia continuare a contrastare le pressioni ungheresi, fino al 1246 quando con Federico II di Babenberg (morto in battaglia contro gli invasori) terminò la dinastia e cominciò il cosiddetto Interregnum, durante il quale si succedettero governanti boemi (Hermann di Baden, Ottocaro II Przemysl) fino a che nel 1278 Rodolfo I di Germania sconfisse Ottocaro stabilendo sull'Austria e su Vienna il dominio asburgico, che proseguirà fino al 1918. Inizialmente osteggiata dalla popolazione (nel 1288 fu soffocata una sollevazione contro i governanti), la dominazione asburgica diede a Vienna il ruolo privilegiato di capitale dell'Impero quando nel 1438 Alberto II d'Asburgo trasferì qui la sede del potere. Sotto Massimiliano I la città conobbe una grande fioritura artistica e culturale (nel 1365 era stata fondata l'Università) mentre l'Impero sotto il suo governo e quello del nipote Carlo V giunse alla sua massima estensione. Facciata dell'Hofburg. Nel 1533 la sede del potere venne spostata nell'edificio dell'Hofburg, il tradizionale palazzo imperiale di Vienna. Non cessarono tuttavia per Vienna le invasioni straniere: dal 1485 al 1493 la città fu sotto la dominazione di Mattia Corvino, re degli ungheresi, scacciato dalla città da Massimiliano, e nei primi anni del Cinquecento iniziò a farsi temere la minaccia turca. Vienna fu per tutto il XVI secolo funestata dalle guerre di religione, divisa tra il protestantesimo (circa l'80% sotto Massimiliano II, di fatto protestante) e il cattolicesimo, uscito vincente dopo le persecuzioni dei successivi sovrani e la violenta Controriforma dei gesuiti. Gli scontri tra le due religioni provocarono lo scoppio nell'Impero e in tutta Europa della Guerra dei Trent'Anni, durante la quale la città fu devastata dalla peste (circa 30.000 morti) e dagli assedi stranieri.
Negli ultimi anni del Settecento e nel primo decennio dell'Ottocento Vienna e l'Austria dovettero subire gli effetti devastanti di Napoleone Bonaparte. Nel 1806 Francesco II fu costretto dall'imperatore dei francesi a cedere il titolo di sovrano del Sacro Romano Impero, eliminando così definitivamente l'antica istituzione che risaliva a Carlomagno, mentre il sovrano assunse il titolo di Francesco I, imperatore d'Austria. Ripetutamente battuta da Napoleone, l'Austria dovette subire la sua occupazione: Bonaparte nel 1809 s'installò a Schönbrunn sposando la figlia di Francesco I, Maria Luisa. L'abile diplomazia del principe Metternich portò tuttavia l'Austria ad aderire nel 1813 alla coalizione contro la Francia che portò alla disfatta di Napoleone e alla fine del suo dominio. Proprio a Vienna sotto la regia di Metternich si tenne il Congresso che sancì la nuova divisione dell'Europa post-napoleonica. I sovrani europei si trattennero nella capitale austriaca per circa un anno, rendendola in pratica il centro del mondo occidentale. S'imposero in questo periodo - detto periodo Biedermeier - la sinfonie di Schubert e i valzer di Strauss, ma la bella vita aristocratica non durò a lungo poiché nel 1848 i moti rivoluzionari borghesi e liberali portarono la definitiva caduta del regime reazionario di Metternich - che fuggì in esilio - e di Ferdinando I, che abdicò in favore del nipote Francesco Giuseppe, appena diciottenne. L'ultimo imperatore d'Austria, sicuramente il più grande, governò per 68 anni. A Vienna il sovrano operò una rivoluzione urbanistica, demolendo le mura già in parte distrutte da Napoleone ed edificando al loro posto la monumentale Ringstrasse, il viale che circonda la città ad anello ed ancora oggi arteria principale della città. Qui nel 1879 si tenne una grandiosa parata per celebrare le nozze d'argento dell'imperatore con la moglie Elisabetta (la famosa Sissi). Nella capitale s'imposero le musiche di Brahms e Strauss, mentre nel 1869 venne inaugurata l'Opera di Vienna. Nei primi del Novecento la città fu scossa da nuovi fermenti artistici: la Secessione viennese di artisti quali Gustav Klimt e Koloman Moser, lo Jugendstil architettonico che portò all'edificazione di molti edifici in stile Art Noveau, mentre la grande Vienna concludeva il suo ciclo storico con la morte di Francesco Giuseppe nel 1916, la disfatta della Prima guerra mondiale e la conseguente scomparsa dell'Impero, dopo l'abdicazione di Carlo I e la proclamazione della Repubblica nel 1918. L'influenza mise in ginocchio la capitale del nuovo stato, ridotto a una piccolissima porzione dell'antico dominio, portando a fermenti rivoluzionari socialisti per tutto il decennio 1920 e buona parte degli anni '30. L'esercito nazista entra a Vienna (1939) Nel 1933 il cancelliere della repubblica Engelbert Dollfuss sciolse il Parlamento proclamando con una risposta reazionaria ai socialisti un regime di stampo fascista. Non durò a lungo: l'anno successivo rivolte di sinistra fecero vacillare il governo, che venne colpito al cuore dagli invasori nazisti che tentarono un colpo di stato uccidendo Dollfuss ma fallendo il tentativo di conquista dell'Austria a causa dell'opposizione di Mussolini. Il successore di Dollfuss, Kurt Schuschnigg, non riuscì a impedire la pressione di Hitler, che nel 1938 penetrò nel paese dopo che Arthur Seyss-Inquart - successore del dimissionario Schuschnigg - aprì le frontiere portando all'Anschluss con la Germania. Dopo aver drammaticamente condiviso il destino del terzo Reich, l'Austria fu occupata dagli Alleati e Vienna venne divisa tra i vincitori della guerra fino al 1955. Il rapido ritorno della democrazia, sancito anche dall'installazione nella città delle sedi delle principali organizzazioni internazionali, permise a Vienna e all'Austria un rapido risveglio economico e politico. Nel 1995 il Paese ha aderito all'Unione europea e oggi Vienna è una delle capitali più visitate dal turismo internazionale.
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TrasportiTram viennese Vienna ha una grande rete di trasporti pubblici. Consiste nella rete S-Bahn, gestita dalle ferrovie austriache (ÖBB), dalla linea locale Wien-Baden (in tedesco Wiener Lokalbahn o Badner Bahn) e dalle rete delle linee cittadine (Wiener Linien), composte dalla metropolitana (U-Bahn), da tram e da linee di autobus. I trasporti pubblici viennesi trasportano circa 750 milioni di passeggeri all'anno.
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Luoghi d'interesse
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Palazzi storici
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ChieseLa Karlskirche
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Musei
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Teatri
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Parchi e natura
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Vienna moderna
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Altri luoghi d'interesse
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Vienna nelle altre lingueLa città di Vienna è famosa in tutto il mondo e pertanto il suo nome viene tradotto in quasi tutte le lingue: simili al nome originale Wien per tutte le lingue culturalmente distanti dall'Austria, e anche molto diverse e irriconoscibili per paesi e lingue limitrofi. Qui di seguito una lista di come viene chiamata la città in differenti lingue:
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Voci correlate
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Altri progetti
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Collegamenti esterni
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