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The Cityscape Of Vienna
ising from Vienna’s old reasonably egalitarian. There are
city center, just beyond innumerable museums in Vienna.
where the stone walls of But the greatest of them all is
the Roman camp once stood, the the Kunsthistorische Museum
predominantly Gothic St. located further down the Ring.
Stephan’s Cathedral continues to Its massive collections include a
tower over the hearts and minds wealth of art by Rembrandt,
of the Viennese as it has for Raphael, Bosch, Titian, Rubens,
some 800 years. Radiating away and Vermeer, as well as the
from the Stephansdom is a number largest collection of Brueghel in
of little streets as intricately the entire world. And competing
connected as the threads of a with the richness of its art, the
spider’s web. And within the web, intricately designed marble halls
more churches, museums, palaces, of the museum are quite
boutiques, galleries, antique breathtaking.
shops, coffeehouses, sidewalk
cafes, and restaurants await the Just bang opposite is the Natural
visitor. It doesn't really matter History Museum chock-full of
which direction one choose to curiosities. Dinosaur skeletons,
walk when wandering about. The stuffed mammals, birds, and fish,
old Inner City holds endless minerals, one of the oldest
delights. prehistoric sculptures in the
world, the Venus of Willendorf,
Encircling the Inner City is a and unique painted skulls from
broad boulevard called the Ring. Hallstatt graves, treasures all.
Amongst the treasures lining the
Ring is the State Opera House. Between the two museums is the
For many Viennese, the soul of commanding memorial to the 18th
Vienna resides within its elegant century Habsburg ruler Maria
interior. The opera in Vienna is Theresia who sits high on her
throne surrounded by her lie within Vienna’s city limits.
ministers and generals. Across Some of the world’s greatest
the street, the spacious grounds musicians walked these paths.
of Heldenplatz lead to the Haydn, Schubert, Mozart,
Hofburg, formerly the imperial Beethoven, Brahms, and the
palace. Strauss’s regularly took
advantage of these walks to clear
The mixture of styles along the their minds and create some of
Ring blends into a surprisingly the finest music ever written.
harmonious study of European Johann Strauss the Younger
architectural history, ranging immortalized the natural beauty
from the neo-Grecian style of these forests with his “Tales
Parliament to the neo-Gothic of the Vienna Woods”.
Rathaus, the neo-Renaissance Burg
Theater to the neo-Baroque Beneath the visible splendor of
Imperial Palace, enhanced by the Vienna’s art, music, and
elegance of the formal gardens of architecture, lies an even richer
the Burggarten and the life that is seldom noticed by
Volksgarten. its many visitors: The quality of
day-to-day life for the majority
The mighty Alps that stretch of Vienna’s citizens. The
across Europe from France through citizen’s of Vienna lead a
Italy, Switzerland, and Austria peaceful life with a low crime
end in the foothills making up rate and clean streets and
the Vienna Woods, part of which atmosphere.
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