A GREAT!!!! city map for backpackers
by coneyislandgreen
My Vienna City Spy Guide was the best in really helping me find great places to go, sleep, and eat in Vienna easily. Unlike my lonely planet & moon guides which lead me to decoding through the pages of destinations the spy guide showed the locations logo with a long dotted line showing where it's at. It was created by a guy who went around composing the map based on what backpackers like to do. There are ones for other European cities as well and you can see what it offers at his website. The map was free at the front desk of the hostel and really left me wondering if I really ever wanted to leave the westend and embark on the city center due to all the alternative scene, great pubs and restaurants around. I highly recommend a visit to the site and ask if your hostel has one to distribute. Hope you enjoy!
Website: www.cityspy.info
Also available is Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, krakow, Prague, & Riga
The Votiv Church
by CandS
Wander past the Votiv Church, it looks great...it was being cleaned when we saw it so the top half looked great and the bottom was very dirty (the reason for the trees in the bottom of my photo...it would have looked better all clean or all dirty).
The Tourist Information office
by Imbi
The Tourist Information office is located at 38 Kärntnerstrasse directly behind the Opera House (call 01/513-8892) in the heart of the inner city, it offers hints about what to see and do in Vienna., it's open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. It stocks free copies of a tourist magazine, Wien Monatsprogramm, that lists what's going on in concert halls, theatres and opera houses.
Michaelerkirche
by Skipka
actually it is just the entrance of this church but I really liked that...
Michaelenkirche is a salvatorian church and it used to be the main funeral church of the famous Austrian personalities. Nowadays it is also the cultural center. The church itself stands here probably from 13th century simultaneosly with the old castle of Hofburg. Time to time there were renovations and enlargements and in 1792 there appeared also the sculpture "Falling of angels" from Lorenzo Matielli.
In the underground there are around 250 of wooden, metal or stoned coffins. As a rarity there you can see the dead pregnant woman and the sillhouettes of her baby inside. Maybe a little morbid but it is part of the history because as I said it was used for burials and funerals.
Café Culture Is Unrushed in Vienna
by BillNJ
Unlike the fast-paced, take-out coffee experience that is customary in America, Vienna has an unrushed café culture. Along with coffee, the waiter will serve a glass of cold tap water. Small food dishes are also usually available for order.
Most Viennese cafés have newspapers on hand -- and it is not uncommon to see chess boards. Many patrons linger in the cafés for hours --- talking, reading, writing, playing chess, or just relaxing.
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