| Vienna has a compact historical centre, bound to the northeast by the Danube canal and surrounded on 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.
Vienna is an architectural open-air museum itself. However, there are many different museums, really worth seeing. But don not try to visit them all in a some-days-stay, it is impossible.
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Jüdisches Museum
Excellent temporary exhibitions on the first floor are mostly on contemporary Jewish life, while on the second floor, visitors are confronted with a
Address:
Dorotheengasse 11
Opening Hours: daily except Sat 10am-6pm, Thu 10am - 9pm
Kunsthistorisches Museum
This late nineteenth-century museum (and its twin, the "Naturhistorisches Museum" on the opposite site of the court) has been designed to accomodate
Address: Maria-Theresien-Platz Opening Hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 6pm
Museum für Völkerkunde
A seperate entrance in the "Neue Burg" leads to this museum, which features the collections of Captain Cook, Aztek treasures and other ethnological exhibits.
Address: Heldenplatz (Neue Burg) Opening Hours: dauly except Tue: Jan - Mar 10am - 6pm, Apr - Dec 10am - 4pm
Schatzkammer des Deutschen Ordens
In the Treasury of the Order of Teutonic Knights you can view ceremonial regalia and domestic trinkets assembled by seven centuries of Grand
Address: Singerstrasse 7
Opening Hours: May - Oct Mon, Thu and Sun 10am - noon, Wed 3 - 5pm, Fri and Sat 10am - noon and 3 - 5pm: Nov - Apr closed Fri morning and Sun
Museum der Stadt Wien
This museum includes three floors of medieval sculpture and paintings, arms and armour recalling the city's struggles against the Turks, a
Address: Karlsplatz
Opening Hours: Tue - Sun 9am - 4.30pm
Dom- und Diözesanmuseum
Next to Stephansdom. Here the church silver is outshone by a collection of marvellous 15th century devotional paintings.
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Address: Stephansplatz 6
Opening Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri and Sat 10am - 4pm, Thu 10am - 6pm, Sun 10am - 1pm
Stephansdom
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
Address: Stephansplatz
Opening Hours: Mot - Sat 9am - noon and 1pm - 5pm, Sun 12.30-5pm, entrance free
Karlskirche
Probably the most pompous church in the whole of Austria. The brilliant white Baroque church with it's two thin towers and green roof.
Karlskirche
The Karlskirche is the crowning achievement of Austrai's foremost Baroque architect, Fischer von Erlach. Built by order of Emperor Karl IV in thanks
Address: Karlsplatz
Opening Hours: Mon - Sat 9 - 11.30am and 1 - 5pm, Sun only afternoon,entrance free
Jesuitenkirche
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
Address: Dr. Ignatz Seipel Platz
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