Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Vienna, Austria
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Experience Vienna in Austria in a whole new way with our free 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 ViennaIndividual Sights in ViennaSight 1: Ateliertheater
The Ateliertheater is a chamber theater in Vienna's 7th district, Neubau.
Sight 2: Renaissancetheater
The Renaissance Theatre is a Viennese theatre in Neubaugasse in the 7th district and currently serves as one of the venues for the Theater der Jugend. The theatre hall, for the installation of which the brothers Eduard and Emanuel Schweinburg were probably responsible, is located in a tenement house and has 667 seats. Since it is not an independent theatre building, it is often called the Renaissance stage.
Sight 3: KosmosTheater
The Kosmos Theater in Vienna is a production and performance venue at Siebensternplatz in Vienna's 7th district of Neubau.
Sight 4: Stiftskaserne
The Stiftkasernne, officially Stiftkaserne General Spannocchi, named after the officer Emil Spannocchi, also Amtsgebäude Stiftgasse General Spannocchi, in the 7th district of Vienna, Neubau, is a military building in Vienna. It is located in Stiftgasse 2 – 2a, a side street of Mariahilfer Straße. On the initiative of Defence Minister Thomas Starlinger, the name was named after Emil Spannocchi on 27 January 2020.
Sight 5: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Mumok is a museum in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria.
Sight 6: Architecture Centre Vienna
The Architekturzentrum Wien is a museum in Vienna, in the Museumsquartier. It is conceived as a centre for exhibitions, events and research into architecture and related topics, particularly the architecture and urban design of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is the national architecture museum of Austria.
Sight 7: Volkstheater
The Volkstheater in Vienna was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Thonet, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the Hofburgtheater. It was erected according to designs by Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, who attempted to reconcile their plans with historicism. It is located in Neubau, the seventh district of Vienna.
Sight 8: Palais Auersperg
Palais Auersperg, originally called Palais Rosenkavalier, is a Baroque palace at Auerspergstraße 1 in the Josefstadt or eighth district of Vienna, Austria.
Sight 9: Grete-Rehor-Park
Schmerlingplatz is located in Vienna's 1st district, the Innere Stadt. It was named in 1893 after the politician Anton von Schmerling.
Sight 10: Franz Grillparzer
The Grillparzer Monument stands in Vienna's Volksgarten and is a larger-than-life seated figure of Franz Grillparzer by the sculptor Carl Kundmann (1838–1919) made of Lasa marble. It is a listed building (list entry).
Sight 11: City Hall Square
The Rathausplatz is a square in Vienna, Austria. The Rathausplatz is in the Innere Stadt, near the new Rathaus, after which it is named. Because of its size, its design and the architecture of the surrounding buildings it is one of the most important squares in central Vienna.
Sight 12: Austrian National Theatre
The Burgtheater (German: [ˈbʊʁk.teˌaːtɐ]; literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as " Court Theater", originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the national theater of Austria in Vienna. It is the most important German-language theater and one of the most important theatres in the world. The Burgtheater was opened in 1741 and has become known as die Burg by the Viennese population; its theater company has created a traditional style and speech typical of Burgtheater performances.
Sight 13: Deserter monument
The Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice is located at the Ballhausplatz in the centre of Vienna, opposite the President's office and the Austrian Chancellory. The monument was created by German conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai. The inscription atop the three-step sculpture features the poem by Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay consisting of just two words: all alone.
Wikipedia: Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice (EN), Website
Sight 14: Wasserwellen-Lebens-Brunnen
The Water Wave Life Fountain, also known as the Lapis Lazuli Lazurite Wave Water Sculpture, Lapis Lazuli Fountain, Kreisky Fountain or Blue Sign, is a fountain in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt.
Sight 15: Globenmuseum
The Globe Museum is a museum in the Palais Mollard, Vienna, Austria, part of the Austrian National Library. It was opened in 1956, and is the only public museum in the world devoted to globes, being three-dimensional models of Earth or other celestial bodies, or spherical representations of the celestial sphere.
Sight 16: Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages
The Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages, commonly known as the Esperanto Museum, is a museum for Esperanto and other constructed languages in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1927 by Hofrat Hugo Steiner and was incorporated into the Austrian National Library as an independent collection in 1928. Today, it is a museum, library, documentation center, and archive. It accommodates the largest collection of constructed languages in the world and a linguistic research library for language planning. Its catalogue is available online.
Wikipedia: Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages (EN), Website
Sight 17: Kohlmarkt
The Kohlmarkt is one of the most famous streets in the center of Vienna. It stretches from Michaelerplatz to the Graben and is considered Vienna's luxury shopping street due to a high density of jewelers and branches of international fashion labels. Together with the Graben and the Kärntner Straße, the Kohlmarkt forms Vienna's so-called "Golden U" of inner-city shopping streets, which offer upscale stores and are pedestrian zones.
Sight 18: Palais Herberstein
The so-called Palais Herberstein is a large Wilhelminian apartment building in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, on the corner of Michaelerplatz and Herrengasse.
Sight 19: Schweizertor
The Hofburg is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. Located in the centre of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn Palace was the summer residence. Since 1946, it has been the official residence and workplace of the president of Austria.
Sight 20: Imperial Treasury
The Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria contains a valuable collection of secular and ecclesiastical treasures covering over a thousand years of European history. The entrance to the treasury is at the Schweizerhof, the oldest part of the palace, which was rebuilt in the sixteenth century in the Renaissance style under Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. The Imperial Treasury is affiliated with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and houses in 21 rooms a collection of rare treasures that were compiled by the Imperial House of Habsburg over the course of centuries, including the Imperial Crown, Orb, and Sceptre of Austria, and the Imperial Regalia of the Emperors and Kings of the Holy Roman Empire, including the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
Sight 21: Papyrus Collection
The Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library, also known as the Rainer Collection and Vienna Papyrus Collection, is a papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library at Hofburg palace in Vienna. It contains around 180,000 objects overall. It is one of the most significant collections in papyrology, containing writings documenting 3 millennia of the history of Egypt from 1500 BCE–1500 CE: Ancient Egypt, Hellenistic Egypt, Roman Egypt, and Egypt during Muslim rule. It includes a specialist library of around 19,500 books and journals as well. The Austrian National Library preserves and restores the stored papyri and facilitates scholarly research and publication based on these ancient documents.
Wikipedia: Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library (EN), Website
Sight 22: Burggarten
The Burggarten is a public park on Vienna's Ringstrasse.
Sight 23: Goethe
The Goethe Monument is a monument in honor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Vienna and is located on the corner of Opernring and Goethegasse in the 1st district of Innere Stadt. The monument, designed by Edmund von Hellmer, was unveiled on December 15, 1900. On the opposite side of the Ringstrasse, on Schillerplatz, is the Schiller Monument, which was erected in 1876.
Sight 24: Schillerpark
Schillerplatz is a square in Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria.
Sight 25: Leopold Museum
Get Ticket*The Leopold Museum, housed in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria, is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Gerstl.
Sight 26: Maria Theresia Memorial
The Maria Theresa Memorial is one of the most important monuments of the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna. It commemorates Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 to 1780. The monument stands since 1888 on the Maria-Theresien-Platz between the Art History Museum, which opened in 1891, and the Natural History Museum, which opened in 1889.
Sight 27: Heldenplatz
Get Ticket*Heldenplatz is a public space in front of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. Located in the Innere Stadt borough, the President of Austria resides in the adjoining Hofburg wing, while the Federal Chancellery is on adjacent Ballhausplatz.
Sight 28: Prince Eugene of Savoy memorial
The Prince Eugene Equestrian Monument is an equestrian statue of the general of the House of Austria, known as Prince Eugene, who was unveiled in 1865. It is located on Heldenplatz in the Austrian capital Vienna.
Sight 29: Ephesos Museum
The Ephesos Museum in Vienna displays antiquities from the city of Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey. Begun in the late 19th century, the collection includes original works of sculpture and architecture, and belongs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Sight 30: Spanish Riding School
The Spanish Riding School is an Austrian institution based in Vienna, dedicated to the preservation of classical dressage and the training of Lipizzaner horses, whose performances in the Hofburg are also a tourist attraction. The leading horses and riders of the school also periodically tour and perform worldwide. It is one of the "Big Four", the most prestigious classical riding academies in the world, alongside the Cadre Noir, the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art, and the Royal Andalusian School.
Sight 31: Michaelerkirche
Saint Michael's Church is one of the oldest churches in Vienna, Austria, and also one of its few remaining Romanesque buildings. Dedicated to the Archangel Michael, St. Michael's Church is located at Michaelerplatz across from St. Michael's Gate at the Hofburg Palace. St. Michael's used to be the parish church of the Imperial Court, when it was called Zum heiligen Michael.
Sight 32: Jewish Museum Vienna
The Jüdisches Museum Wien, trading as Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien GmbH or the Jewish Museum Vienna, is a museum of Jewish history, life and religion in Austria. The museum is present on two locations, in the Palais Eskeles in the Dorotheergasse and in the Judenplatz, and has distinguished itself by a very active programme of exhibitions and outreach events highlighting the past and present of Jewish culture in Austria. The current director is Barbara Staudinger and the chief curator is Astrid Peterle.
Sight 33: Palais Equitable
The Palais Equitable is an office building 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 a Stock im Eisen on one corner.
Sight 34: Tuchmacherbrunnen
The cloth maker fountain or clothing fountain is a fountain in the 1st Vienna municipality inner city.
Sight 35: Andromedabrunnen
The Andromeda Fountain is a fountain in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt.
Sight 36: Kornhäuselturm
The Kornhäuselturm is a building built between 1825 and 1827 according to designs by Joseph Kornhäusel in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt. At the time of its construction, it was the tallest secular tower in Vienna. With a height of over 35 meters, it is the oldest high-rise in Vienna according to the current Viennese building regulations.
Sight 37: St. Hieronymus
The Franciscan Church, also known as the Church of St. Jerome, is a Roman Catholic parish church dedicated to Saint Jerome and located in the historic city center of Vienna, Vienna's 1st district. It is the church of the Franciscan Order in Vienna.
Sight 38: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts
The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt. Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design, the museum especially focuses on architecture and contemporary art. The museum has been at its current location since 1871. Since 2004 the building is illuminated in the evenings by the permanent outdoor installation "MAKlite" of American artist James Turrell. In 2015 the MAK became the first museum to use bitcoin to acquire art, when it purchased the screensaver "Event listeners" of van den Dorpel. With over 300,000 objects displayed online, the MAK presents the largest online collection within the Austrian Federal Museums. The audio guide to this museum is provided as a web-based app.
Sight 39: Dominikanerbastei
The Dominican Bastion was part of the Vienna city wall as a fortification. Today, a street created in its place in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, bears this name.
Sight 40: Dominikanerkirche
The Dominican Church, also known as the Church of St. Maria Rotunda, is an early Baroque parish church and minor basilica in the historic center of Vienna, Austria. It is the third church built on the same site in the course of time.
Sight 41: Georgskirche
St. George's Church, also known as the Greek Church of St. George, is an Orthodox church in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, on the Hafnersteig in the former "Greek Quarter".
Sight 42: Zum gelben Adler
Zum gelben Adler is a former inn on the corner of Hafnersteig and Griechengasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt. The building, which is now used as a residential building, is a listed building.
Sight 43: Theater franzjosefskai21
The theater franzjosefskai21 is a small stage at the eponymous Franz-Josefs-Kai 21 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt.
Sight 44: Dreifaltigkeitssäule
The Holy Trinity Column is a Baroque memorial column in Vienna, which was erected in memory of a former chapel that stood not far away. The column stands in front of the headquarters of the Vienna Emergency Service at the corner of Radetzkystraße 1 and Obere Weißgerberstraße in the Weißgerberviertel of Vienna's 3rd district, Landstraße. It is a listed building.
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