Vienna
Vienna is the capital, most populous city, and one of the nine states of Austria.
Vienna is the capital, most populous city, and one of the nine states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political centre of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most populous of the cities on the river Danube.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Vienna has a rich history as the capital city of the monarchy, and thus, there is an abundance of historical buildings and museums. Most of these, including Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral) and the three most well-known museums, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts), Naturhistorisches Museum (Museum of Natural History) and Albertina, are located in the Innere Stadt.
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Things to do
Ball Season: One thing you should not miss when you visit Vienna during the carnival season is to attend one of the many glamorous balls in the city, some of them in wonderful elegant locations like the Vienna Hofburg or the City Hall (Rathaus). The most widely known and elegant balls are the Opera Ball in the State Opera or the ball of the Wiener Philharmoniker. Many professional guilds have their own ball, e.g.
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Where to eat
Viennese restaurant menus offer a bewildering variety of terms for dishes, most of which the visitor will never have heard of and many of which aren't in the brief lists of menu terms included in phrase books.
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Getting to Vienna
- Airports
- Vienna (VIE), 18 km · M. R. Štefánik (BTS), 62 km · Graz (GRZ), 152 km
- Feldkirchen bei Graz → Vienna150 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · €20–28
- Linz → Vienna155 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €19–26
- Klagenfurt am Wörthersee → Vienna235 km · quickest by road, 4h 42m · €31–43
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vienna
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vienna. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCompare prices at https://www.elines.cz and http://www.eurolines.at }} Minibuses, or shuttle vans to Český Krumlov and surrounds are common, but more expensive that EURegio train tickets, especially for round-trips.
- Get inMinibuses may match their times to passengers needs.
- Go nextYou may also consider making the journey by ferry: The Twin City Liner makes the journey through the Danube.
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Next door to Vienna
Vienna is 55 km from Bratislava, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.