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Vienna is the capital of Austria.
Population of about 1.7 million inhabitants.
The Rathaus (City Hall) is an official building in the city of Vienna which serves as a seat to both the council and the Regional Assembly of the State of Vienna, administrative division of the Republic of Austria.
The building owns its own fleet, the Rathauspark.
The square in front of City Hall is a place where stand some festive events highlights of the city: in November and December the Christmas market.
The Burgtheater is a Vienna theater opened in 1888. The building allophone ve on the Ring, the ring road of the capital of Austria.
The Austrian Parliament, In Search of the Ringstrasse. Adorned with effigies of ancient historians, a large ramp overlooking the Trainers of horses in bronze and leads to the entrance portico raised relative to the avenue.
Fountain - designed by Karl Knusmann dominated by a huge sculpture of Athena.
The Ring (Ringstrasse) is a boulevard that encircles the historic city center of Vienna (Innere Stadt). It is bordered important monuments of the former imperial capital of Austria and delimits the first district.
The maria-Platz of Vienna is a great square (Platz) joining the Ringstrasse with Museumsquartier, a modern art museum located in the former imperial stables.
The Hofburg was extended by the Neue Hofburg (New Hofburg), which houses the Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian National Library today.
The Viennese City Park (Stadtpark).
The original nucleus, built circa 1220, bristling includes a quadrilateral of laps around the court named later Schweizerhof.
The contributions of successive rulers anxious to enlarge and beautify their homes explained the juxtaposition of very different styles.
Since the twentieth century, it is the residence of the presidency of the Republic of Austria.
Archaeological excavations in the Michaelerplatz between 1989 and 1991 to discover, among other things, the regulations of Canabae associated with the Roman camp at Vindobona.
The Albertina in Vienna palace is located in the first district, close to the Hofburg. The graphic arts collection of Albertina is now one of the richest in the world.
The Wiener Staatsoper is a public company for opera and ballet located in Vienna. This is one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, opened in 1869.
The specialty of the kitchens of the Hotel Sacher is the Sachertorte was invented by the father Eduard, Franz Sacher, then pastry chef of Prince Metternich.
The Capuchin Church (Kapuzinerkirche) or St. Mary of the Angels is a cele church `number Vienna, the Habsburg necropolis.
Vienna's most elegant shopping street leads from Stephansplatz to the Staatsoper on the Ring and ends at Karlsplatz.
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.
St. Stephen's Cathedral is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna.
Its current Romanesque and Gothic form seen today, situated at the heart of Vienna.
St. Stephen's Cathedral was largely initiated by Rudolf IV and stands on the ruins of two earlier churches, the first being a parish church consecrated in 1147.
There are 18 altars in the main part of the church, and more in the various chapels.
The Maria Pötsch Icon MP is a Byzantine style icon of St. Mary with the child Jesus.
The stone pulpit is a masterwork of late gothic sculpture.
There are several formal chapels in St. Stephen's Cathedral: St. Katherine's Chapel, St. Barbara's Chapel, St. Eligius's Chapel, St. Bartholomew's Chapel, The Chapel of the Cross, St. Valentine's Chapel.
Since its earliest days, St. Stephen's Cathedral has been surrounded by cemeteries dating back to Roman times, and has sheltered the bodies of notables and commoners.
St Stephen's Cathedral has an old organ tradition. The first organ is mentioned in 1334.
Der Graben 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.
It is crossed by Wipplinger Straße by means of the Hohe Brücke, a bridge about ten metres above street level.
St. Peter's Church is a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna.
The Kohlmarkt stretches from St. Michael's Square to the ditch and is due to a high concentration of jewelers and branches of international fashion brands as luxury shopping street of Vienna.
A bigger market is the Christkindlmarkt (Christmas Market) which takes place between middle November to Christmas and sees the area packed with stalls selling various arts, crafts and food. For the New Year the area is turned into a temporary ice skating ring.