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Kaertner Strasse - Vienna
Kaertner Strasse
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1. Bezirk / 1st District: Monuments in the city park
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    • Fam.Rauca
  • By Fam.Rauca on February 9, 2006
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    • The monument of Franz Schubert - Vienna
    The monument of Franz Schubert
    by Fam.Rauca, 4 more photos
    City Park is a spa, a green oasis in the middle of the city, but also, an open-air collection of precious artworks, that reminds at important celebrities of the music lives and the history of Vienna.
    There, are placed monuments that were realized from famous sculptors, for famous musicians.
    The monument of Franz Schubert, for example, was realized from the sculptors C. Kundmann and T. Hansen, in the year 1872, and is a donation of the M?nnergesang-Verein (male choir) of Vienna, to the city park.
    The monuments of Hans Makart, Robert Stolz, Schindler, or Andreas-Zelinka are placed on the avenues of the park.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: Street Graben
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    • Skipka
  • Updated By Skipka on November 6, 2003
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    • pole - Vienna
    pole
    by Skipka
    Street Graben -as I have read- means "Drain" and it sounds really funny if you think about the centre of a town. :) For natives it shoudl be the place where all tourists should dissapear >:)... well, but Street Graben is the core of the old centre connecting the Stephansdom to Hofburg in general. Dominant of this street is pestiferous pole familiarly called Trinity pole. It is baroque 21 m high pole built thanks to the promise of Emperor Leopold to the Lord when black death hit Vienna in 1679. The first sillhouette of the pole appeared in the same year and it is a work of more masters such as Matthias Rauchmiller, J. B. Fischer of Erlach and finally in 1693 Lodovico Burnacini has seen it finished. The statue of kneeled Emperor created Paul Strudel (maybe also the apple strudel is named according to him :))and statue of St Trinity created Johann Kilian.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: Ringstrasse
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    • Zo72
  • Updated By Zo72 on October 24, 2003
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    • Maria Theresia Platz and Kunsthistorisches Museum - Vienna
    Maria Theresia Platz and
    Kunsthistorisches Museum
    by Zo72
    There are some quite interesting places located near Ringstrasse, street that encircles old city of Vienna. Most interesting of them are Hofburg (Habsburg imperial palace), Maria Theresia Platz and museums around it, Austrian parliament, Votivkirsche and Rathaus. Not less interesting is the area of Karlsplatz and Schwartzenberg Platz and Belvedere castle just around the corner.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: City centre
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    • Zo72
  • By Zo72 on October 23, 2003
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    • Kaertner Strasse - Vienna
    Kaertner Strasse
    by Zo72
    City centre of Vienna is area surrounded with so called Ring, circle of roads around the very heart of the city. For me it is a beautiful place with many roads, squares, churches and special places. Main pedestrian zone in this area consists of Kaertner strasse, Stephansplatz and Graben, but there are many other places worth visiting. It is also interesting to take tram 1 or 2 that are riding around the ring.

    Waliking around the city centre is something I like to do. Some places are special during the day while others are great during the night.

    I only don't like how it looks on Saturday night.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: Stephansdom
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    • Zo72
  • Updated By Zo72 on October 23, 2003
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    • Setphansdom, October 2003 - Vienna
    Setphansdom, October 2003
    by Zo72
    Stephansdom is cathedral situated in the very city centre at Stephansplatz. It is beautiful and huge church, the biggest I have been to. Otherwise there are many beautiful churches in Vienna which makes this city great place for me since i love to visit churches and religious objects.

    Stephansdom is open every day until 21 and it is certainly worth seeing. There are tombs of Habsburgs in the basement and stairs to church tower (both for admission). Sometimes there are organ concerts held around 19 or 20 in the church which I recommend.

    I was amazed by its beauty and size when I reached Vienna centre by U-bahn (subway train) for the first time. Stairs from Stephanplatz bring you directly in front of Stephansdom and when you look up you are shocked. At least I was.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: Forget the guidebooks
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    • Manara
  • By Manara on September 15, 2003
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    • Freyung Passage - Vienna
    Freyung Passage
    by Manara
    A thing every visitor should do in Vienna, at least for a half day (a full day would be even better) is to put aside maps and guidebooks and wander about the streets of the old city centre (the area enclosed within the avenues of the Ring and the Donaukanal).
    In this smallish area there is such a number of beautiful buildings and statues, churches, picturesque corners, elegant shops and nice cafes that you are not allowed to use the word "serendipity" when you describe your "discoveries".

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: Take the tram
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    • Manara
  • Updated By Manara on December 2, 2003
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    • Mozart - Vienna
    Mozart
    by Manara
    Take a tour of the Ring to get a general impression of the grandest face of Imperial Vienna. Circular lines 1 and 2, going clockwise and anti-clockwise respectively, enable you to see a number of monuments, buildings and parks: if you start at the the Opera, with the tram line Nr 1, you will see the Burggarten with the statues of Goethe and Mozart, Maria Theresien Platz with the twin buildings of the Kunsthistorisches and the Naturhistorisches museums, the Burgtor and the Heldenplatz, the Volksgarten, the Parliament, the Rathauspark and the Rathaus (City Hall), the Burgteater, the remains of the city walls, the University, the Stock Exchange, the Votivkirche, the Ruprechtskirche, the Postsparkasse, the Regierungsgebaude, the Academy of Applied Arts, the Stadtpark with the gilded statue of Strauss, the statue of Karl Philipp von Scharzenberg, and then you are back at the Opera.
    What you get in such a tour is just a glimpse of things that you may wish to go back to, for a proper visit, and this is precisely what I hope you will do.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: A parliament
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    • Skipka
  • Updated By Skipka on November 6, 2003
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    • palas athena - Vienna
    palas athena
    by Skipka
    The building of Parliament is from 1873-1883 built by Theophil Hansen. His aim was to evocate respect of Antic art and democracy what are the basic ideas in every parliament (wow, how ironic it sounds :)) Well, the building of Parliament is typical Greek style with tympanion and corinthian pillars, excellently decorated. In front of the building is a big fountain of Palas Athena and three lying persons representing rivers Danube, Morava, Labe and Inn. Vienna could be thankful for this fountain to sculptor Kundmann.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: Central part of Vienna
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  • Updated By croisbeauty on September 16, 2006
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    • 1. Bezirk / 1st District - Vienna
    by croisbeauty, 3 more photos
    Due to a limited time, and bad weather conditions, I have explore the central part of the town only. Actually, I was in Vienna couple of times before but have never snaped any picture. What you see on this page is half a day of strolling around without visiting any of museums, the banks of Danube and the outskirts of the town.

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    1. Bezirk / 1st District: Michaelerplatz - Neptune Fountain
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  • By yooperprof on August 7, 2003
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    • When Austria Ruled the Waves - Vienna
    When Austria Ruled the
    Waves
    by yooperprof
    Flanking either side of the Hofburg wing at Michaelerplatz are fountains celebrating Habsburg military glory. Facing "In Der Burg" on your right in the fountain honoring Austria's navies: Neptune cavorts with a host of other divinities and mortals. Considering that now Austria is a landlocked nation, you may be surprised at the numerous Neptune fountains to be found in Vienna (the most famous is at Schonbrunn). Of course, at one time Austria did have a presence on the Adriatic coast: Venice and Trieste were its ports. And Neptune is just naturally an excellent subject for a fountain.

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