The oldest part of the Innere Stadt, from Judenplatz and the Ankeruhr to the hidden Stadttempel and St. Rupert's, then past Mozart's flat and the Jesuit Church to Wagner's Postal Savings Bank, the MAK and Café Prückel.
Best time: Morning on a weekday, when the churches are open and the Stubenring cafés are calm.
The 1826 synagogue hidden behind a house front; see it from Seitenstettengasse. 5 min
Vienna's main synagogue (1826) by Joseph Kornhäusel, hidden inside a block because Joseph II allowed only Catholic churches to face the street; that saved it from destruction on…
Traditionally Vienna's oldest church, above the Danube canal. 15 min
Traditionally Vienna's oldest church, in the area of Roman Vindobona above the old salt-merchants' jetty on the Danube channel; it holds Vienna's oldest window glass (about 1370).
Wagner's bolted marble façade and glass-roofed hall. 20 min
Otto Wagner's 1904–06 bank, built in then-new reinforced concrete; the façade's thin marble slabs are fixed with visible aluminium bolts, and the main hall has a glass roof and a…
Arts-and-crafts and design museum at Stubenring since 1871, also covering architecture and contemporary art; since 2004 James Turrell's MAKlite installation lights the building…
Ringstraße café from 1903 opposite the MAK, keeping Oswald Haerdtl's 1950s interior; editorial guides call it more popular with locals than tourists and note its big newspaper…
