Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Innsbruck, Austria

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Number of sights 26 sights
Distance 10.6 km
Ascend 229 m
Descend 258 m

Experience Innsbruck in Austria in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in InnsbruckIndividual Sights in Innsbruck

Sight 1: Botanischer Garten

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The Botanical Garden of the University of Innsbruck is a 2-hectare botanical garden operated by the University of Innsbruck. It is located in Hötting at Sternwartestraße 15, Innsbruck, Austria. The gardens are open at no cost every day; its greenhouses are open on Thursday afternoons for an admission fee.

Wikipedia: Botanical Garden of the University of Innsbruck (EN)

134 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Alte Universitäts-Sternwarte Hötting

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Alte Universitäts-Sternwarte Hötting

Innsbruck Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the institutes of astrophysics out of the University of Innsbruck. It is located in Innsbruck, Austria.

Wikipedia: Innsbruck Observatory (EN)

795 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Landschaftliche Kirche Mariahilf

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The Roman Catholic Landscape Parish Church of Mariahilf is a church in the district of Hötting, on the left bank of the Inn in Innsbruck, Austria.

Wikipedia: Mariahilfkirche (Innsbruck) (DE), Website

845 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 4: Petrus Canisius

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Petrus Canisius is a Catholic parish church in the Höttinger Au district of Innsbruck, which was built between 1968 and 1972. It is dedicated to St. Peter Canisius, the patron saint of the Diocese of Innsbruck, and is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Pfarrkirche Petrus Canisius (Innsbruck) (DE)

1482 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 5: St. John's Church

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The Roman Catholic St. John's Church (Johann-Nepomuk-Kirche) stands on Innsbruck's Innrain.

Wikipedia: Johanneskirche (Innsbruck) (DE)

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: IVB-Kundencenter

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IVB-Kundencenter unbekannt / PD-Schöpfungshöhe

The Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe (IVB) and its sister company Innbus are responsible for the majority of local public transport in the Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck. The shareholders of IVB are Innsbrucker Kommunalbetriebe Aktiengesellschaft with 51%, the state of Tyrol with 4% and the city of Innsbruck with 45%.

Wikipedia: Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe (DE), Website

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Hospital Church

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The Roman Catholic Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit is located in Maria-Theresien-Straße in Innsbruck's city centre.

Wikipedia: Spitalskirche (Innsbruck) (DE)

310 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: St. Anne's Column

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St. Anne's Column stands in the city centre of Innsbruck on Maria-Theresien-Straße.

Wikipedia: St. Anne's Column (EN)

388 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum

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The Tyrolean State Museum, also known as the Ferdinandeum after Archduke Ferdinand, is located in Innsbruck, Austria. It was founded in 1823 by the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum Society.

Wikipedia: Tyrolean State Museum (EN), Website

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Jesuit Church

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Jesuit Church Simon Legner (User:simon04) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Roman Catholic Jesuit Church in Innsbruck is a Holy Trinity Church near the Old University, east of the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Jesuitenkirche (Innsbruck) (DE), Website

298 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde für Tirol und Vorarlberg

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Israelitische Kultusgemeinde für  Tirol und Vorarlberg Simon Legner (User:simon04) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Innsbruck Synagogue is the main synagogue of the Jewish Community for Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Innsbruck in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Wikipedia: Synagoge (Innsbruck) (DE), Website

309 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Kapuzinerkirche

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The Capuchin Monastery Innsbruck is a monastery of the Capuchin Order in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the seat of the Provincial Council of the former Capuchin Province of Austria-South Tyrol.

Wikipedia: Kapuzinerkloster Innsbruck (DE)

524 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 13: Court Church

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The Hofkirche is a Gothic church located in the Altstadt section of Innsbruck, Austria. The church was built in 1553 by Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564) as a memorial to his grandfather Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519), whose cenotaph within boasts a remarkable collection of German Renaissance sculpture. The church also contains the tomb of Andreas Hofer, Tyrol's national hero.

Wikipedia: Court Church (EN), Website

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Helbling House

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Helbling House is a building located in the Old Town (Altstadt) section of Innsbruck, Austria, across from the Golden Roof at Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 10. The original structure was built in the fifteenth century, but evolved significantly with new architectural styles in subsequent centuries.

Wikipedia: Helbling House (EN)

109 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Stadtturm

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The town hall tower, called the city tower, stands in the middle of the historic centre of Innsbruck, at Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 21.

Wikipedia: Stadtturm (Innsbruck) (DE)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Golden Roof

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The Goldenes Dachl is a landmark structure located in the Old Town (Altstadt) section of Innsbruck, Austria. It is considered the city's most famous symbol. Completed in 1500, the roof was decorated with 2,657 fire-gilded copper tiles for Emperor Maximilian I to mark his wedding to Bianca Maria Sforza. The Emperor and his wife used the balcony to observe festivals, tournaments, and other events that took place in the square below.

Wikipedia: Goldenes Dachl (EN), Website

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Cathedral of St. James

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Innsbruck Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of St. James, is an eighteenth-century Baroque cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck in the city of Innsbruck, Austria, dedicated to the apostle Saint James, son of Zebedee. Based on designs by the architect Johann Jakob Herkomer, the cathedral was built between 1717 and 1724 on the site of a twelfth-century Romanesque church. The interior is enclosed by three domed vaults spanning the nave, and a dome with lantern above the chancel. With its lavish Baroque interior, executed in part by the Asam brothers, St. James is considered among the most important Baroque buildings in the Tyrol.

Wikipedia: Innsbruck Cathedral (EN), Website

93 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Hofburg

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The Hofburg is a former Habsburg palace in Innsbruck, Austria, and considered one of the three most significant cultural buildings in the country, along with the Hofburg Palace and Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. The Hofburg is the main building of a large residential complex once used by the Habsburgs that still includes the Noblewomen's Collegiate Foundation, the Silver Chapel, the Hofkirche containing Emperor Maximilian's cenotaph and the Schwarzen Mandern, the Theological University, the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum, Innsbruck Cathedral, the Congress, and the Hofgarten.

Wikipedia: Hofburg, Innsbruck (EN), Website

45 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Leopoldsbrunnen

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Leopoldsbrunnen

The Leopold Fountain in the Tyrolean state capital is a listed monument near the Altstadt of the city of Innsbruck. The fountain, which is on the Rennweg and is not far from the Tyrolean State Theatre features an equestrian statue of Archduke Leopold V who lived from 1586 to 1632 and gave the fountain its name.

Wikipedia: Leopold Fountain (EN)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Tiroler Landestheater Großes Haus

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The Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck is the state theatre in Innsbruck, Austria, located near the historic Altstadt section of the city. The theatre is surrounded by the Imperial Hofburg, the Hofgarten, and SOWI Faculty of the University of Innsbruck. The main theatre has about 800 seats and the studio theatre in the basement has around 250. Plays, operas, operettas, musicals and dance theatre are performed at the theatre.

Wikipedia: Tyrolean State Theatre (EN), Website

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Hofgarten

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The Hofgarten is a protected park located on the edge of the Altstadt section of Innsbruck, Austria. The park covers an area of 10 hectares, and borders on the Hofburg, the Kongresshaus, and the Tyrolean State Theatre.

Wikipedia: Hofgarten, Innsbruck (EN)

339 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: Emile-Béthouart-Steg

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The Emile-Béthouart-Steg is a pedestrian bridge over the Inn River in Innsbruck, Austria. The iron truss bridge, built in 1875 and listed as a historic monument since 1923, connects St. Nikolaus on the left bank of the Inn with the Saggen on the right bank of the Inn. It is located about 600 m below the Inn bridge and 700 m above the Hans-Psenner-Steg.

Wikipedia: Emile-Béthouart-Steg (DE)

1029 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 23: Siebenkapellenkirche

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Siebenkapellenkirche Simon Legner (User:simon04) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Siebenkapellenkirche, also known as the Heiliggrabkirche or Siebenkreuzkapelle, is a profaned church building in the Dreiheiligen-Schlachthof district of Innsbruck, Germany.

Wikipedia: Siebenkapellenkirche (DE)

497 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 24: Dreiheiligen

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Dreiheiligen Simon Legner (User:simon04) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Dreiheiligenkirche is a Catholic parish church in the Innsbruck district of Dreiheiligen-Schlachthof, which was built in 1612/13 as a fulfilment of a vow in the face of the plague and is dedicated to Saints Sebastian, Pirmin, Rochus and Alexius. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Dreiheiligenkirche (Innsbruck) (DE)

605 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 25: Stadtpark Rapoldi

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Stadtpark Rapoldi is a park in Innsbruck, Austria.

Wikipedia: Rapoldipark (DE)

1291 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 26: Pauluskirche

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The Landesgedächtniskirche St. Paulus, often referred to simply as St. Paul's Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Innsbruck district of Reichenau. It was built between 1959 and 1960 and is dedicated to the Apostle Paul. The church is a listed building (list entry).

Wikipedia: St. Paulus (Innsbruck) (DE)

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