Landstraße: Stadtpark to the Belvedere: a walk in Vienna

From the Stadtpark statues through Landstraße to the Hundertwasserhaus, past the flak towers in Arenbergpark, up to the Upper Belvedere.

Best time: Morning, to reach the Belvedere at opening time or just after.

The route, stop by stop

1
Stadtpark
Strauss and Schubert statues along the Wien river. 20 min
A 65,000 m² park split by the Wien river, with statues of Johann Strauss II, Schubert, Bruckner and others; the Kursalon on its edge hosts waltz concerts.
2
Hundertwasserhaus
The tree-grown façade from Kegelgasse. 15 min
Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Joseph Krawina's 1983–85 council apartment house with undulating floors, an earth-and-grass roof and 250 trees and bushes, some growing out of the…
3
Arenbergpark
The two WWII flak towers. 10 min
A neighbourhood park in Landstraße that holds two WWII flak towers; they were too massive to demolish, and one is now used to store art.
4
Belvedere (Upper Belvedere)
Klimt's The Kiss in the Upper Belvedere, then down through the garden. 120 min
Prince Eugene of Savoy's Baroque summer palaces by Lukas von Hildebrandt (Upper Belvedere finished 1723), now a major Austrian art museum holding Klimt's The Kiss; the Austrian…