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Austria

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Austria is 83,879 km², and its nine states fall into two kinds of trip. Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria lie along the Danube on level, easily crossed ground, with Vienna alone holding 1,931,593 of the country's roughly nine million people. Tyrol, Salzburg, Vorarlberg and Styria are the Alpine states, entered by valley rather than by plain, and their capitals — Innsbruck, Salzburg, Bregenz, Graz — are each small enough to cross on foot in an afternoon. The distinction decides an itinerary: the Danube cities sit an hour apart by train and the mountain ones do not.

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

Cities

Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.

Practical information
Language spoken
German
German is Austria's official language; Croatian, Slovenian and Hungarian also have official status in some regions
Dialling code
+43
Austria's international country code
Currency
Euro (€, EUR)
Austria introduced euro banknotes and coins in 2002
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 144 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Not recorded
No verified national official source was found
Tap water
Safe to drink
Austria's national tourism authority states that tap water is drinkable in every region

Planning a visit

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Top things to see

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  1. Schönbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Palace
    01 4 hours

    Schönbrunn Palace

    Schloss Schönbrunn

    Schönbrunn Palace is Vienna’s former Habsburg summer residence and one of Europe’s great imperial complexes.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  2. St. Stephen's Cathedral St. Stephen's Cathedral
    02 1 hour

    St. Stephen's Cathedral

    Stephansdom

    St. Stephen’s Cathedral is Vienna’s working metropolitan church and the defining landmark of Stephansplatz. Its story reaches back to a foundation in 1137, while Gothic rebuilding began in 1359 under Duke Rudolf IV.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  3. Belvedere Belvedere
    03 2 hours

    Belvedere

    Belvedere is Prince Eugene of Savoy’s former summer residence, not one palace but a carefully staged Baroque ensemble in Vienna’s Landstraße district.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  4. Vienna State Opera house Vienna State Opera house
    04 45 min

    Vienna State Opera house

    Wiener Staatsoper

    The Vienna State Opera was hated when it opened and it killed both its architects.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  5. Wiener Riesenrad Wiener Riesenrad
    05 30 min

    Wiener Riesenrad

    Riesenrad

    Wiener Riesenrad is Vienna’s historic giant wheel at the entrance to the Prater, built in 1897 for Emperor Franz Joseph’s Golden Jubilee. Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth designed it, and Walter Basset Bassett built it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  6. MuseumsQuartier MuseumsQuartier
    06 30 min

    MuseumsQuartier

    The MuseumsQuartier is one of the largest cultural districts in the world by area, roughly 90,000 square metres, built inside the former imperial court stables, the Hofstallungen, originally constructed in the early eighteenth century under plans associated with Johann Bernhard…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  7. Vienna City Hall Vienna City Hall
    07 20 min

    Vienna City Hall

    Rathaus

    The Rathaus is a Gothic cathedral that turned out to be a town hall, and it is the largest secular building on the Ringstrasse.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  8. Karlskirche Karlskirche
    08 1 hour

    Karlskirche

    Karlskirche is Vienna’s great Baroque church on the south side of Karlsplatz, but its identity is unusually theatrical: a classical portico sits between two monumental spiral-relief columns and two tower pavilions, beneath a 70-metre dome.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  9. Spanish Riding School Spanish Riding School
    09 1 hr 30 min

    Spanish Riding School

    Spanische Hofreitschule

    The Spanish Riding School is the world's oldest institution still practising classical Baroque horsemanship in its original form, tracing its riding tradition back to 1572 and its Lipizzaner breeding programme to the Habsburgs' interest in Spanish-bred horses.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  10. Hundertwasserhaus Hundertwasserhaus
    10 15 min

    Hundertwasserhaus

    Hundertwasserhaus is a private residential complex in Vienna’s 3rd district, Landstraße, at the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse. Friedensreich Hundertwasser created the artistic concept with architect Joseph Krawina, and construction took place from 1983 to 1985.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  11. Musikverein Musikverein
    11 1 hour

    Musikverein

    Musikverein is Vienna’s celebrated concert building on Karlsplatz, opened on 6 January 1870 and designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen in a neoclassical style inspired by a Greek temple.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  12. Naschmarkt Naschmarkt
    12 1 hour

    Naschmarkt

    The Naschmarkt is Vienna's largest and oldest continuously running market, a roughly 1.5-kilometre strip of stalls running along the covered-over bed of the Wien River between Karlsplatz and Kettenbrückengasse.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  13. Austrian Parliament Building Austrian Parliament Building
    13 1 hour

    Austrian Parliament Building

    Parlament

    The Austrian Parliament Building is Vienna’s working national legislature, designed by Theophil Hansen in a deliberately Greek-inspired style. Construction ran from 1874 to 1883, when classical forms were used to express the building’s association with democratic government.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  14. Votive Church Votive Church
    14 30 min

    Votive Church

    Votivkirche

    The Votivkirche exists because somebody tried to kill the emperor and failed.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  15. Donauturm Donauturm
    15 1 hour

    Donauturm

    The Donauturm is the tallest structure in Austria, at 252 m, and it was built as a garden show attraction.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  16. Burgtheater Burgtheater
    16 1 hour

    Burgtheater

    The Burgtheater is Austria's national theatre and one of the most important German-language stages in the world.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  17. Imperial Crypt Imperial Crypt
    17 45 min

    Imperial Crypt

    Kaisergruft

    The Imperial Crypt is where the Habsburgs are buried, and it is under an ordinary friary church on a shopping street.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  18. Graben Graben
    18 20 min

    Graben

    The Graben is a broad, elongated square in the Innere Stadt, and its name — 'ditch' — records what it once was: the moat of the Roman legionary camp of Vindobona, filled in during the Middle Ages and built over.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  19. Heldenplatz Heldenplatz
    19 20 min

    Heldenplatz

    Heldenplatz is an unfinished square in front of the Hofburg, and it is the most politically loaded piece of ground in Austria.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  20. Café Central Café Central
    20 1 hour

    Café Central

    Café Central is a historic Viennese coffeehouse inside the Palais Ferstel, a Neo-Renaissance building designed by Heinrich von Ferstel. The café opened in 1876 and became one of Vienna’s best-known literary meeting places before the First World War.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  21. Augarten Augarten
    21 1 hour

    Augarten

    Augarten is a public Baroque park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district, laid out in its present form in the early 18th century and opened to the public by Emperor Joseph II in 1775 — one of the earliest palace gardens…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  22. Kohlmarkt Kohlmarkt
    22 10 min

    Kohlmarkt

    Kohlmarkt is a short pedestrian shopping street in Vienna's Innere Stadt, running from the Graben to Michaelerplatz, where it ends directly at the Michaelertor, the domed gate into the Hofburg.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  23. Court Chapel Court Chapel
    23 45 min

    Court Chapel

    Hofburgkapelle

    The Hofburgkapelle, or Court Chapel, stands within Vienna's Hofburg Palace complex. It served as the Habsburg imperial family's place of worship and preserves an important connection between court ceremony, religion, and Viennese history.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  24. Ankeruhr Ankeruhr
    24 20 min

    Ankeruhr

    The Ankeruhr is Vienna’s Art Nouveau clock on Hoher Markt, built across the gap between two buildings associated with the Anker Insurance company.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  25. Looshaus Looshaus
    25 20 min

    Looshaus

    Looshaus is Adolf Loos's 1909-1911 commercial and residential building at Michaelerplatz 3, directly opposite the Michaelertor gate of the Hofburg.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  26. Kursalon Vienna Kursalon Vienna
    26 2 hours

    Kursalon Vienna

    Kursalon Hübner

    Kursalon Vienna is an Italian Renaissance Revival building standing at the edge of the Stadtpark in Vienna's Innere Stadt district, built in 1865-67 by architect Johann Garben as a public 'cure hall', a cafe and gathering pavilion meant to draw…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  27. Bermudadreieck Bermudadreieck
    27 45 min

    Bermudadreieck

    Bermudadreieck is a nightlife district in Vienna's Innere Stadt, centered on the area around Rabensteig, Seitenstettengasse, and Judengasse. The name translates to Bermuda Triangle, referencing how visitors may lose track of time amid its dense concentration of bars and venues.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  28. Äußeres Burgtor Äußeres Burgtor
    28 45 min

    Äußeres Burgtor

    Burgtor

    Äußeres Burgtor, also known locally as Burgtor, is a historic neoclassical gate in central Vienna. The gate belongs to the city’s imperial architectural landscape and marks an important threshold near the Hofburg complex.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  29. Haas House Haas House
    29 10 min

    Haas House

    Haas-Haus

    The Haas-Haus is a curved glass-and-stone office and retail building on Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, directly opposite the main entrance of St. Stephen's Cathedral, designed by Hans Hollein and completed in 1990.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  30. Altes Palmenhaus Altes Palmenhaus
    30 45 min

    Altes Palmenhaus

    Altes Palmenhaus is a historic palm house in Vienna, a building type created for cultivating tropical and subtropical plants in an urban setting. Its name means “Old Palm House,” linking the structure to Vienna’s tradition of displaying exotic flora.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  31. Kuffner observatory Kuffner observatory
    31 45 min

    Kuffner observatory

    Kuffner Sternwarte

    Kuffner Observatory, also called Kuffner Sternwarte, is a historic astronomical observatory in Vienna. Founded through private patronage in the late nineteenth century, it served as an active research institution for decades.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  32. Fillgraderstiege Fillgraderstiege
    32 45 min

    Fillgraderstiege

    Fillgraderstiege is a historic public staircase in Vienna connecting Fillgradergasse with Theobaldgasse between the Mariahilf and Neubau districts. Built in the early twentieth century, it combines a practical pedestrian link with the architectural character of Vienna's urban streets.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  33. Heiligenkreuzerhof Heiligenkreuzerhof
    33 45 min

    Heiligenkreuzerhof

    Heiligenkreuzerhof is a historic courtyard complex in Vienna's Inner City, situated near Stephansdom. The site derives its name from Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the Cistercian monastery in Lower Austria that has owned the property for centuries.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  34. Wittgenstein House Wittgenstein House
    34 30 min

    Wittgenstein House

    Haus Wittgenstein

    Haus Wittgenstein — also called the Stonborough House — is a modernist house at Kundmanngasse 19 in Vienna's 3rd district, built in 1926-1928 for Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  35. Episcopal Palace Episcopal Palace
    35 45 min

    Episcopal Palace

    Erzbischöfliches Palais

    Episcopal Palace, locally called Erzbischöfliches Palais, is the residence of the Archbishop of Vienna in the historic centre. It is a working ecclesiastical building rather than a conventional museum or sightseeing venue.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  36. Flakturm Augarten (Gefechtsturm) Flakturm Augarten (Gefechtsturm)
    36 45 min

    Flakturm Augarten (Gefechtsturm)

    The Flakturm Augarten (Gefechtsturm) is one of six surviving flak towers built in Vienna during the Second World War. Constructed between 1942 and 1945, these massive reinforced concrete structures served as anti-aircraft gun platforms, command centers, and air-raid shelters.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  37. Donnerbrunnen Donnerbrunnen
    37 45 min

    Donnerbrunnen

    Donnerbrunnen, also called the Providentia Fountain, is a Baroque monument in Neuer Markt. Georg Raphael Donner created the fountain between 1737 and 1739, making it one of Vienna’s important eighteenth-century sculptural works.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  38. Republikdenkmal Republikdenkmal
    38 45 min

    Republikdenkmal

    Denkmal der Republik

    Republikdenkmal, also known as Denkmal der Republik, commemorates the founding of the Austrian Republic in 1918. The monument marks the political transition that followed the end of Habsburg imperial rule and the emergence of republican government.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  39. Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice
    39 45 min

    Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice

    Deserteursdenkmal

    The Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice, known locally as Deserteursdenkmal, is an outdoor memorial in Vienna. It honours people persecuted by Nazi military courts, including deserters and others punished for refusing service or being judged insubordinate.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  40. Trinity column, Radetzkystraße 1, Landstraße Trinity column, Radetzkystraße 1, Landstraße
    40 45 min

    Trinity column, Radetzkystraße 1, Landstraße

    Dreifaltigkeitssäule

    The Dreifaltigkeitssäule, or Trinity Column, stands at Radetzkystraße 1 in Vienna's Landstraße district. This religious monument represents the Holy Trinity and forms part of the city's extensive heritage of plague columns and devotional structures erected across Central Europe.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  41. Burg am Leopoldsberg Burg am Leopoldsberg
    41 45 min

    Burg am Leopoldsberg

    Burg am Leopoldsberg is a historic castle structure on Leopoldsberg, a prominent hill in northern Vienna above the Danube. The elevated setting places the castle within a landscape of river views, wooded slopes and the expanding city below.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  42. Friedensbrücke Friedensbrücke
    42 45 min

    Friedensbrücke

    Friedensbrücke, or Peace Bridge, crosses the Danube Canal in Vienna. It is a working urban connection linking parts of the city for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  43. Hohe Brücke Hohe Brücke
    43 45 min

    Hohe Brücke

    Hohe Brücke is a historic bridge in Vienna. The German name means “High Bridge,” and the structure belongs to the city’s network of crossings, streets and walkways.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  44. Schloss Altmannsdorf Schloss Altmannsdorf
    44 45 min

    Schloss Altmannsdorf

    Altmannsdorfer Schloss

    Schloss Altmannsdorf, also known locally as Altmannsdorfer Schloss, is a historic palace in Vienna’s Altmannsdorf district.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  45. Palais Augarten Palais Augarten
    45 5 min

    Palais Augarten

    Augartenpalais

    Palais Augarten is the Baroque palace standing inside Augarten park in Leopoldstadt.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  46. Bergkirche Rodaun Bergkirche Rodaun
    46 45 min

    Bergkirche Rodaun

    Bergkirche Rodaun is a functioning church in Vienna’s Rodaun district. Its name refers to its elevated setting, giving the building a distinctive position within the neighbourhood.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  47. Erlöserkirche Erlöserkirche
    47 45 min

    Erlöserkirche

    Erlöserkirche Endresstraße

    Erlöserkirche is a church on Endresstraße in Vienna. Its role is best understood through its place in the city’s neighbourhood religious landscape: it is a church building serving worship and community life, rather than a large museum complex.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  48. Chuch of St. John Chuch of St. John
    48 45 min

    Chuch of St. John

    Evang. Johanneskirche

    The Evangelische Johanneskirche, known in English as the Church of St. John, is a Protestant church in Vienna. It serves the Evangelical Lutheran tradition and belongs to the city’s diverse religious and architectural landscape.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  49. Johanneskirche Johanneskirche
    49 45 min

    Johanneskirche

    Johanneskirche is a church in Vienna, Austria, serving as a place of Christian worship within the capital’s broad religious and architectural landscape.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  50. Hofmannsthal-Schlössl Hofmannsthal-Schlössl
    50 45 min

    Hofmannsthal-Schlössl

    Hofmannsthal-Schlössl is a historic building in Vienna associated with the von Hofmannsthal family, notable for their cultural significance in Austrian history. The structure represents aristocratic Viennese architecture and serves as a tangible connection to the city's literary and social heritage.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  51. Etablissement Gschwandner Etablissement Gschwandner
    51 45 min

    Etablissement Gschwandner

    Ehem. Etablissement Gschwandner

    Etablissement Gschwandner, also known locally as Ehem. Etablissement Gschwandner, is a former entertainment establishment in Vienna.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  52. Liesing Aqueduct Liesing Aqueduct
    52 45 min

    Liesing Aqueduct

    Aquädukt Liesing

    The Liesing Aqueduct, known locally as Aquädukt Liesing, is a historic water-bridge structure in Vienna’s twenty-third district, Liesing. It belongs to the city’s wider history of water-management and public engineering, showing how infrastructure can become part of an urban landscape.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  53. aqueduct Speising aqueduct Speising
    53 45 min

    aqueduct Speising

    Aquädukt Speising

    Aquädukt Speising is a historic aqueduct in southern Vienna and a tangible example of municipal water engineering.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  54. Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
    54 15 min

    Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial

    Holocaust-Mahnmal

    The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial is a sealed concrete sculpture by the British artist Rachel Whiteread, unveiled on 25 October 2000 on Judenplatz in the Innere Stadt.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  55. Soviet War Memorial Soviet War Memorial
    55 10 min

    Soviet War Memorial

    Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee

    The Soviet War Memorial on Schwarzenbergplatz commemorates the Red Army soldiers killed during the Vienna Offensive of April 1945, and was built and unveiled by Soviet authorities the same year, within months of the city's capture.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  56. Gasometer Gasometer
    56 1 hour

    Gasometer

    Wiener Gasometer

    The Gasometers are four Victorian gas holders with flats inside them.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  57. Karl Marx-Hof Karl Marx-Hof
    57 1 hour

    Karl Marx-Hof

    Karl-Marx-Hof

    Karl-Marx-Hof is a block of council flats 1,100 m long, and it is one of the longest single residential buildings in the world.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  58. Pestsäule Pestsäule
    58 10 min

    Pestsäule

    The Pestsäule is a promise made by an emperor who had left town.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  59. Stephansplatz Stephansplatz
    59 20 min

    Stephansplatz

    Stephansplatz is the square at the geographic and historic centre of Vienna, formed around St. Stephen's Cathedral and taking its name directly from it.

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  60. Schloss Wilhelminenberg Schloss Wilhelminenberg
    60 45 min

    Schloss Wilhelminenberg

    Schloss Wilhelminenberg sits on a wooded hill above Ottakring, Vienna's 16th district, built in the 1730s for Field Marshal Guido Starhemberg and later named for Archduchess Wilhelmine, who owned it in the nineteenth century.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  61. Palais Schwarzenberg Palais Schwarzenberg
    61 15 min

    Palais Schwarzenberg

    Palais Schwarzenberg is a Baroque garden palace at the edge of the Belvedere district, begun for Count Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld-Fondi and continued after his death by the Schwarzenberg family, who gave it its present name.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  62. Schottenstift Schottenstift
    62 1 hour

    Schottenstift

    Schottenstift is a working Benedictine abbey on Freyung square in the Innere Stadt, founded in 1155 by Duke Henry II Jasomirgott.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  63. Gartenpalais Liechtenstein Gartenpalais Liechtenstein
    63 2 hours

    Gartenpalais Liechtenstein

    Palais Liechtenstein (Gartenpalais)

    The Garden Palace (Gartenpalais Liechtenstein) is the Liechtenstein princely family's Baroque summer residence in Alsergrund, the 9th district, built 1691-1711 for Prince Johann Adam Andreas I of Liechtenstein.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  64. Palais Coburg Palais Coburg
    64 1 hr 30 min

    Palais Coburg

    Palais Coburg is a Neoclassical palace at Coburgbastei 4 in Vienna's first district, built between 1840 and 1845 for Ferdinand Georg August, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry, on top of a surviving bastion of the old city fortifications.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  65. Palais Kinsky Palais Kinsky
    65 30 min

    Palais Kinsky

    Palais Kinsky is a Baroque palace at Freyung 4 in Vienna's first district, built between 1713 and 1716 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt for Count Philipp Vinzenz Daun, a Habsburg field marshal, and later passed by marriage to the Kinsky…

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  66. Palais Todesco Palais Todesco
    66 15 min

    Palais Todesco

    Palais Todesco is a Ringstrasse-era palace facing the Vienna State Opera across Kärntner Straße, built between 1861 and 1864 by Ludwig Förster and Theophil Hansen for the brothers Eduard and Hermann Todesco, Jewish bankers ennobled by Franz Joseph I as…

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  67. Neugebäude Palace Neugebäude Palace
    67 1 hr 30 min

    Neugebäude Palace

    Schloss Neugebäude

    Neugebäude is a ruined Renaissance palace at Simmering, on Vienna's south-eastern edge, built 1568-1573 for Emperor Maximilian II.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  68. Strudlhofstiege Strudlhofstiege
    68 10 min

    Strudlhofstiege

    The Strudlhofstiege is a public outdoor Art Nouveau stairway in Alsergrund, connecting the upper street Strudlhofgasse to the lower Liechtensteinstrasse across a steep slope.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  69. Hofburg Palace Hofburg Palace
    69 20 min

    Hofburg Palace

    Schweizertor

    The Hofburg is not a palace but a district of palaces, and the Austrian president works in it.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  70. Palais Ferstel Palais Ferstel
    70 1 hr 30 min

    Palais Ferstel

    Palais Ferstel is a mid-nineteenth-century palace between Freyung and Herrengasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt, built between 1856 and 1860 to a design by architect Heinrich von Ferstel, after whom it is named.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  73. Wasserturm Wasserturm
    73 45 min

    Wasserturm

    Wasserturm Favoriten

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  77. Palais Schönburg Palais Schönburg
    77 45 min

    Palais Schönburg

    Palais Starhemberg-Schönburg

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna
  78. Schloss Essling Schloss Essling
    78 45 min

    Schloss Essling

    Schloss Eßling

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Vienna

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Common questions

How long should a first trip to Austria be?

Seven to ten days gives Vienna four days and leaves time for Salzburg, Innsbruck, or Graz by rail. Alpine excursions need flexible weather time and should not be treated as guaranteed additions to a tightly timed city route.

What entry documents are needed for Austria?

Austria follows Schengen entry rules, with document and visa requirements determined by nationality and route. Verify the current position through official Austrian or EU channels before departure.

What is the best way to travel around Austria?

ÖBB trains and coordinated buses link Vienna with Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, and other regions. Drivers need the correct motorway toll product, and some Alpine roads charge separately.

When is a practical time to visit Austria?

May to June and September suit many city-and-mountain routes, while December is a distinct winter-city period. Lift, pass, and high-road operating dates matter more than a national forecast for Alpine days.

What money and payment basics apply in Austria?

Austria uses the euro (EUR). Cards are useful, but a euro cash reserve can help at smaller establishments; review the amount and currency before approving any terminal conversion.

What practical safety details should I save for Austria?

Austria uses 112 as its general emergency line and 144 for ambulance dispatch. Its 230 V system takes Type C and F plugs. This guide holds no verified tap-water value, so leave that point unresolved until local guidance is checked.