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Insight Guides Pocket Vienna (Travel Guide eBook)
Insight Guides Pocket Vienna (Travel Guide eBook)
Insight Guides Pocket Vienna (Travel Guide eBook)
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Inside Insight Pocket Guide Vienna:
Where To Go takes you from the Innere Stadt, along the Danube and to the Medieval Towns further afield. Take in the beauty of Karlsplatz and its numerous attractions before heading over to the MuseumsQuartier for some modern art. For longer stays, daytrips explore the Heuriger vineyards, quaint medieval towns and tranquil spots along the Danube Valley.

Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip, including the Stephansdom cathedral, the Hofburg and Sch nbrunn.

Perfect Day provides an itinerary for one day in the city.

What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from the many museums to tours of the Royal Palace, shopping, concerts, plus nightlife.

Essential information on Vienna's culture, including a brief history of the city.

Eating Out covers the city's best cuisine.

Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants.

A-Z of all the practical information you'll need.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

TOC
Top 10 Attractions
A Perfect Day in Vienna
Introduction
A Brief History
Where to Go
What to Do
Eating Out
A-Z Travel Tips
Recommended Hotels
Index

LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 5, 2016
ISBN9781786715814
Insight Guides Pocket Vienna (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Insight Guides Pocket Vienna (Travel Guide eBook) - Insight Guides

    How To Use This E-Book

    Getting Around the e-Book

    This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Vienna, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.

    The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Vienna, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.

    In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

    Maps

    All key attractions and sights in Vienna are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

    Images

    You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Vienna. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.

    About Insight Guides

    Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

    Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

    © 2016 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

    Table of Contents

    Vienna’s Top 10 Attractions

    Top Attraction #1

    Top Attraction #2

    Top Attraction #3

    Top Attraction #4

    Top Attraction #5

    Top Attraction #6

    Top Attraction #7

    Top Attraction #8

    Top Attraction #9

    Top Attraction #10

    A Perfect Day in Vienna

    Introduction

    Tradition and Modernity

    At the Crossroads

    A Brief History

    Romans and Barbarians

    Babenberg Rule

    The Habsburgs

    Maria Theresa and Napoleon

    The Long 19th Century

    The End of the Empire

    Historical Landmarks

    Where To Go

    Innere Stadt

    Stephansdom

    East of Stephansdom

    Kärntnerstrasse to Albertinaplatz

    The Graben and the Jewish Quarter

    Platz am Hof

    Around Herrengasse

    The Hofburg

    Imperial Apartments

    Silver Collection

    The Stallburg

    Spanish Riding School

    National Library

    Schweizerhof

    In der Burg

    Neue Burg

    The Burggarten

    Ringstrasse and its Museums

    Kunsthistorisches Museum

    Naturhistorisches Museum

    MuseumsQuartier

    Fine Arts Academy

    Secessionsgebäude

    Karlsplatz

    Applied Arts Museum

    Outside the Ring

    Hundertwasser Haus

    Belvedere

    Nearby Museum

    Zentralfriedhof

    The Gasometers

    Further Sights

    Schönbrunn

    The Gardens

    The Palace

    Across the Danube

    The Prater

    Donauinsel

    Vienna’s Suburbs

    The Hohenstrasse

    Klosterneuburg

    The Wienerwald

    Baden

    The Danube Valley

    Melk

    Medieval Towns of the Wachau

    Krems

    To the East

    Neusiedlersee

    Eisenstadt

    What To Do

    Entertainment

    Opera

    Music

    Theatre

    Cinema

    Nightlife

    Shopping

    Where and When to Shop

    What to Buy

    Active Pursuits

    Children’s Vienna

    Calendar of Events

    Eating Out

    Viennese Fare

    Wines and Wine Gardens

    Coffee and the Kaffeehaus

    Reading the Menu

    To Help You Order…

    …and Read the Menu

    Restaurants

    Restaurants

    The Innere Stadt (District 1)

    Around the Ringstrasse (Districts 2–9)

    Further Afield

    Viennese Cafés

    A–Z Travel Tips

    A

    Accommodation (For Recommended Hotels, click here)

    Airport (Flughafen)

    B

    Bicycle Rental (Fahrrad-Verleih)

    Budgeting For Your Trip

    C

    Camping

    Car Rental/Hire (Autovermietung, see also Driving)

    Climate

    Clothing (Kleidung)

    Crime and Safety (See also Emergencies and Police)

    D

    Disabled Travellers

    Driving (See also Car Rental/Hire)

    E

    Electricity

    Embassies and Consulates

    Emergencies (See also Crime and Safety and Police)

    G

    Gay and Lesbian Travellers

    Getting There

    Guides and Tours (Fremdenführer; Rundfahrten)

    H

    Health and Medical Care (Ärztliche Hilfe)

    L

    Language

    M

    Maps

    Media

    Money (Geld)

    O

    Opening Hours

    P

    Police (Polizei, see also Crime and Safety and Emergencies)

    Post Office (Postamt)

    Public Holidays (Feiertage)

    T

    Telephones

    Time Zone

    Tipping

    Toilets

    Tourist Information

    Transport

    V

    Visas and Entry Requirements

    W

    Websites and Internet Access

    Y

    Youth Hostels (Jugendherberge)

    Recommended Hotels

    The Innere Stadt (District 1)

    Around the Ringstrasse (Districts 2–9)

    Further Afield

    Gumpoldskirchen

    Vienna’s Top 10 Attractions

    Top Attraction #1

    Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

    Kunsthistorisches Museum

    Works by Raphael are among its many masterpieces. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #2

    Fotolia

    Schönbrunn

    Empress Maria Theresa’s opulent rococo palace and gardens. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #3

    Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

    The Secession Building

    Home to Gustav Klimt’s 34-m (112-ft) long Beethoven Frieze. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #4

    Fotolia

    Stephansdom

    The cathedral at the heart of Vienna’s Innere Stadt. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #5

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    Karlsplatz

    It has numerous attractions in addition to the Karlskirche. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #6

    Wiki

    The Belvedere

    Among its treasures is Klimt’s The Kiss. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #7

    Vienna Tourist Board

    The Spanish Riding School

    See the Lipizzaner stallions perform. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #8

    iStock

    The Hofburg

    Imperial palace of the Habsburgs. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #9

    iStock

    The MuseumsQuartier

    Where the Museum of Modern Art, Architecture Centre and multimedia exhibitions can all be found. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #10

    Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

    The Prater

    Vienna’s huge expanse of parkland, home to the Riesenrad. For more information, click here.

    A Perfect Day in Vienna

    9.00am

    Breakfast

    A hearty Alpine breakfast is a great set-up for the day, so eat your fill either from your hotel buffet or from the diet-busting breakfast menu at Café Drechsler (for more information, click here).

    10.00am

    Royal Palace

    Kick off your day of sightseeing at the Stephansdom with great city views from the tower; then take the U-Bahn southwest to Schloss Schönnbrunn, the Habsburg’s baroque masterpiece. You’ll just have time to take a tour of the 40 dazzling rooms before returning to the city centre.

    12 noon

    Lunch

    Take your midday pangs to the Innere Stadt (for more information, click here) for some authentic Viennese fare in the company of the city’s office workers, or Trzesniewski (for more information, click here) for a traditional open sandwich with lunchtime diners on the hop.

    1.00pm

    Museum visit

    After lunch take the U-Bahn or tram to the famous MuseumsQuartier. MUMOK and Leopold Museum are top choices, and across the road stands the superb Kunsthistorisches Museum. Cafés are plentiful too if you need to refuel.

    3.30pm

    Take a break

    Time to take a break, so hop across from the museum action into the Volksgarten for a quiet stroll, perhaps stopping off for a coffee at an open-air café.

    5.00pm

    Mine’s a Beisl

    Taking an early dinner frees up the rest of the evening for more Viennese experiences, so make your way to one of the city’s friendly Beisln, a type of informal bistro with authentic local food. Beim Czaak (for more information, click here) or Reinthaler (for more information, click here) are popular with inner-city dwellers.

    6.30pm

    In a spin

    Next stop is the Prater amusement park for a spin on the big wheel, the Riesenrad, immortalised in the film The Third Man. If fun fairs are not your thing, there are plenty of Danube-side walks to take and parkland to explore, perhaps by bike.

    8.30pm

    Tavern time

    A great way to round off the day is to head out of town to a Heuriger (wine tavern), perhaps Braunsperger (for more information, click here) or Fuhrgassl-Huber (for more information, click here) to sip some excellent local reds and whites as well as traditional food. They’re easily accessible from the city centre.

    Introduction

    The sophisticated Viennese enjoy what is known as the Wiener Lebensart, a cultured appreciation of all life’s pleasures. Not only is this reflected in Vienna’s glorious art, music and

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