Touring Vienna
Vienna in Wien Stadt (Vienna) with it's 1,691,468 residents is a town located in Austria. It's the capital of this country.
Time in Vienna is now 08:57 AM (Tuesday). The local timezone is named Europe / Vienna with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 11 airports nearby Vienna, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in Austria is Vienna International Airport in a distance of 11 mi (or 18 km), South-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in Austria is Historic Centre of Vienna in a distance of 1 mi (or 1 km), North-East. We collected 4 points of interest near this location. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Vosendorf, Langenzersdorf, Leopoldsdorf, Hennersdorf and Klosterneuburg. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info. Let's start with some photos from the area.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Ambassador
Do & Co Hotel Vienna
Residence Wollzeile Apartments
Hotel Topazz
Hotel Lamée
Hotel Mailberger Hof
Austria Trend Hotel Astoria Wien
Hotel Mercure Wien Zentrum
Hotel Mercure Vienna First
Pertschy Palais Hotel
Videos from this area
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Park Hyatt Vienna
Park Hyatt Vienna: http://bit.ly/1q7UDhu The Pearl of Vienna travels from team member to team member, showing off every corner of the luxurious Park Hyatt Vienna.
Nissan Skyline R33 GTR - NightRuns through Vienna
Best of Night Runs through the City of Vienna .. better than Chicken-GumBall-Party ;) Want a crazy mean bad ass Skyline? Catch me if you can *haha* ..or write me a Message.
FFC 16 Vienna : Alessio Sakara vs Maciej Browarski FULL HD BEST VIDEO
Vienna 06/12/2014 - Telecronaca in Italiano.
10 Hours of Walking in Vienna as a Catcaller
This is a parody of this video: http://goo.gl/cNjP0a BlueFish Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlueFishVienna Youtube-Kanal: http://www.youtube.com/BlueFishVienna.
Harlem Shake Vienna Metro
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Street Racing in Vienna - F430 vs R8 V10 vs S5
Street Racing with some Fast cars in Vienna. I am in an Audi R8 V10 Spyder. We drove with the Audi R8 V10 Spider, Ferrari F430 and 2 x Audi S5. The Cars are from Prestige Vienna ...
Vienna Streets - Mariahilfer Strasse
Saturday afternoon walk Mariahilfer Strasse, 1070 Wien. Wien ist anders!
Vienna Knights Cheerleader: Mehr als nur ein Sport
Mit halsbrecherischen Jumps und unglaublichen Stunts feuern Cheerleader nicht nur ihre Mannschaft, sondern auch das Publikum an. Dafür muss aber auch hart trainiert werden. Wir besuchen die...
Vienna Streets - Citybus 1A - Schottentor bis Stephansplatz
Fahrt mit dem Citybus 1A von Schottentor bis Stephansplatz. Ride by bus 1A from Schottentor to Stephansplatz in the center of Vienna. There are a lot of exclusive (and also expensive) shops....
La7 Cronache - Intervista a Laura, ricercatrice italiana a Vienna
QuiVienna (http://www.quivienna.com) presenta: In questo video Laura Cuzzocrea, ricercatrice italiana a Vienna, viene intervistata dal programma "La7 Cronache" sulla sua vita a Vienna. Tutti...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815. The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.731 million (2.4 million within the metropolitan area, more than 20% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 9th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.
Innere Stadt
The Innere Stadt is the 1st municipal District of Vienna. The Innere Stadt is the Old Town of Vienna. Until the city boundaries were expanded in 1850, the Innere Stadt was congruent with the city of Vienna. Traditionally it was divided into four quarters, which were designated after important town gates: Stubenviertel (northeast), Kärntner Viertel (southeast), Widmerviertel (southwest), Schottenviertel (northwest).
Vergilius Chapel
Sketch of the above-ground Magdalene Chapel, 1609. ]] The Vergilius Chapel is an underground crypt next to the Stephansdom in Vienna. It is rectangular in form (approximately 6 meters by 10), with six niches. Today, it lies approximately 12 meters beneath the Stephansplatz.
Graben, Vienna
Der Graben (German, literally, "the trench") is one of the most famous streets in Vienna's first district, the city centre. It begins at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz next to the Palais Equitable and ends at the junction of Kohlmarkt and Tuchlauben. Another street in the first district is called Tiefer Graben (deep ditch). It is crossed by Wipplinger Straße by means of the Hohe Brücke, a bridge about ten metres above street level.
Pummerin
Pummerin ("Boomer") is the name of the two largest bells in the history of the Stephansdom in Vienna.
Ducal Crypt (Vienna)
The Ducal Crypt is a burial chamber beneath the chancel of Stephansdom in Vienna, Austria. It holds 78 containers with the bodies, hearts, or viscera of 72 members of the House of Habsburg.
Café Hawelka
Café Hawelka is a coffeehouse in the Innere Stadt district of Vienna located at Dorotheergasse 6. The Café Hawelka was opened by Leopold Hawelka in 1939. Hawelka had previously operated the Kaffee Alt Wien on Bäckerstraße since 1936 and together with his wife Josefine took over the Café Ludwig in the Dorotheergasse in May 1939. This spot was originally the location of the "Chatham Bar" opened in 1906.
Palais Eskeles
Palais Eskeles is a palace in Vienna, Austria. It was owned by the Jewish noble Eskeles family. Today it houses the Jewish Museum Vienna.
Palais Bartolotti-Partenfeld
The Palais Bartolotti-Partenfeld is a city-palace in central Vienna, Austria. It was originally build for the Bartolotti noble family and later bought by the Partenfeld family.
Vindobona
Vindobona (Celtic/Gaulish windo- "fair/white/blessed", bona "base/bottom", presumably so-named from its geological/topological position) was originally a Celtic settlement, and later a Roman military camp on the site of the modern city of Vienna in Austria. Around 15 BC, the kingdom of Noricum was included in the Roman Empire. Henceforth, the Danube marked the border of the empire, and the Romans built fortifications and settlements on the banks of the Danube, including Vindobona.
St. Peter's Church, Vienna
St. Peter's Church is a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna, Austria. It was transferred in 1970 by the Archbishop of Vienna Franz Cardinal König to the priests of the Opus Dei.
Pestsäule (Vienna)
The Pestsäule is located on Graben, a street in the inner city of Vienna and is one of the most well-known and prominent pieces of sculpture in the city. In 1679, Vienna was visited by one of the last big plague epidemics. Fleeing the city, Emperor Leopold I vowed to erect a mercy column if the epidemic would end.
Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna
The Church of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (German: Hl. Elisabeth von Ungarn), also known as Church of the Teutonic Order, is the mother church of the Teutonic Order, a German-based Roman Catholic religious order formed at the end of the 12th century. Located in Vienna, Austria, near the Stephansdom, it is the current seat of the Grand Master of the Order.
Stephansplatz, Vienna
The Stephansplatz is a square at the geographical centre of Vienna. It is named after its most prominent building, the Stephansdom, Vienna's cathedral and one of the tallest churches in the world. Before the 20th century, a row of houses separated Stephansplatz from Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, but since their destruction, the name Stephansplatz started to be used for the wider area covering both.
Haas House
The Haas House is a building in Vienna at the Stock-im-Eisen-Platz. Designed by the Austrian architect Hans Hollein, it is a building in the postmodernist style and was completed in 1990. The use of the Haas-Haus is divided between retail and a restaurant. The building is considered controversial owing to its contrast with the adjacent Stephansdom cathedral.
Stock im Eisen
The Stock im Eisen is the midsection of a tree-trunk from the Middle Ages, a so-called nail-tree (Nagelbaum), into which hundreds of nails have been pounded for good luck over centuries. It is located in Vienna, Austria, in Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, now part of Stephansplatz, at the corner of the Graben and Kärntner Straße and is now behind glass on a corner of the Palais Equitable.
Kärntner Straße
Kärntner Straße is the most famous shopping street in central Vienna . It runs from the Stephansplatz out to the Wiener Staatsoper at Karlsplatz on the Ringstraße. The first record of Kärntner Straße is from 1257, as Strata Carintianorum, which refers to its importance as a trade route to the southern province of Carinthia .
Franciscan Church, Vienna
The Church of St. Jerome, commonly known as Vienna's Franciscan Church is a Roman Catholic parish church dedicated to St. Jerome and located in the historic city center of Vienna, Vienna's 1st district. It is the church of the Franciscan Order in Vienna.
Zacherlhaus
The Zacherlhaus is a residential and business tower designed by Jože Plečnik and built between 1903 and 1905 in the 1st district of Vienna, the Innere Stadt (at Brandstätte 6/Wildpretmarkt 2-4/Bauernmarkt 2). The construction was commissioned by Johann Evangelist Zacherl, son of the industrial magnate Johann Zacherl, who built the Zacherlfabrik. It was one of the first modern buildings erected at the Wildpretmarkt in Vienna’s city centre.
RHI AG
RHI AG (German: Radex-Heraklith Industriebeteiligungs AG) is a Vienna-based Austrian company specialising in producing heat-resistant refractory products for the steel, cement, glass, lime and non-ferrous metals industries. The company has an annual producing capacity of 2 million tonnes of refractory products, making it the largest company in the world in this field of activity.
Stephansplatz (Vienna U-Bahn)
Stephansplatz is an important destination and interchange station in the Vienna U-Bahn system. It is located under the Stephansplatz and is served by the U 1 and U 3 lines. Stephansplatz station opened on 18 November 1978.
Palais Equitable
The Palais Equitable is a mansion in Stock-im-Eisen-Platz in the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria that was built in the 19th century for The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and that incorporates the Stock im Eisen on one corner. The building is on the site of five small medieval buildings that were demolished in 1856–86, partly in order to expand Kärntner Straße. It was designed by Andreas Streit and constructed in 1887–91.
Mozarthaus Vienna
The Mozarthaus Vienna was Mozart's residence from 1784 to 1787. This building in Vienna's Old Town, not far from St. Stephen's Cathedral, is his only surviving Viennese residence and is now a museum.
Trams in Vienna
The Vienna tramway network is a vital part of the public transport system in Vienna, capital city of Austria. In operation since 1865, the network reached its greatest extent during the interwar period (1918–1939). Today, it is still one of world's largest tram networks, at about 172.1 km in total length. The trams on the network run on standard gauge track. Since 1897, they have been powered by electricity, at 600 V DC. The current operator of the network is Wiener Linien.