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Stephansdom

Stephansdom, St Stephen's Cathedral, is the most important religious building in Austria and the defining landmark of Vienna's skyline. Its south tower, rising 136 metres, has watched over the city for nearly 600 years. …

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Hofburg Palace

The Hofburg is Vienna's imperial palace and one of the largest palace complexes in the world. For over 600 years, it was the seat of Habsburg power, and today it serves as the official residence of the Austrian president…

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Ruprechtsplatz

Ruprechtsplatz is home to the Ruprechtskirche, widely considered Vienna's oldest church. Legend traces its founding to the 8th century, when companions of Saint Rupert of Salzburg supposedly built the first chapel here. …

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Griechenbeisl

First documented in 1447, the Griechenbeisl is one of Europe's oldest continuously operating restaurants. Its name comes from the Greek and Levantine merchants who settled in this part of Vienna during the 17th century, …

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Basilikenhaus

On June 26, 1212, something terrifying was discovered in the well of baker Martin Garhiebl's house. A mysterious creature with a poisonous breath lurked in the depths, and the people of medieval Vienna identified it as a…

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Bäckerstraße

Around 1100, a bustling medieval trade suburb grew up right in front of the Hungarian Gate of Vienna's old fortifications. Foreign merchants from Cologne and Regensburg set up trading courts here, storing goods from the …

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Figlmüller Bäckerstraße

Founded in 1905 by Johann Figlmuller, this legendary schnitzel house has become synonymous with Vienna's most iconic dish. The original location was on Wollzeile, but when demand outgrew the tiny restaurant, a second Fig…

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Stock im Eisen

At the corner of Stephansplatz, behind a pane of glass, stands one of Vienna's strangest and oldest artifacts: a 2.19-meter section of a spruce tree trunk bristling with hundreds of nails hammered in over nearly six cent…

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Cafe Frauenhuber

Cafe Frauenhuber holds a remarkable distinction: it is Vienna's oldest continuously operating coffeehouse. But its story begins long before coffee was served here. The building started life as a bathhouse, first mentione…

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The Rathaus

When Vienna demolished its medieval city walls in the 1860s to build the grand Ringstrasse boulevard, the city needed a new seat of government to match its ambitions. German architect Friedrich von Schmidt won the compet…

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Burgtheater

In 1741, an entrepreneur convinced Empress Maria Theresa to let him convert a disused building near the imperial court into a theater. The gamble paid off in 1776 when Emperor Josef II made a revolutionary decision: he t…

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Volksgarten

The Volksgarten carries a surprisingly revolutionary origin story. When Napoleon's troops destroyed the Burgbastei fortification in 1809, the rubble-strewn ruins sat empty until 1823, when Vienna transformed them into so…

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Michaelerplatz

Michaelerplatz is built on thousands of years of Viennese history, quite literally. The square sits atop the remains of Vindobona, the Roman legionary camp established in the 1st century AD. Back then, this spot was outs…

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Franziskaner-Convent

The Franciscan order arrived in Vienna in 1451, but it was not until 1589 that the City of Vienna handed them a building with a dark past: the former convent of the Penitents, built between 1383 and 1387. This was where …

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Albertina Museum

The Albertina was born from the vision of one obsessive collector. In 1776, Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, son-in-law of Empress Maria Theresa, began assembling what would become one of the world's greatest print and dra…

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