Look at the Opernring façade; standing room is sold 80 minutes before performances. 10 min
Built 1861–69 by Sicardsburg and van der Nüll and opened with Don Giovanni; bombed in March 1945, it reopened in November 1955 with Fidelio, and its orchestra supplies the Vienna…
Former imperial private garden behind the Hofburg, completed in 1820 and opened to the public after 1918; its 1901 Jugendstil Palmenhaus is a greenhouse and butterfly house, and…
Step into the domed entrance and grand stairway, or plan a separate visit. 15 min
Austria's largest art museum, opened around 1891 to house the Habsburg art collection in a Semper and Hasenauer building on the Ring; the grand stairway has paintings by Gustav…
Opened by Franz Joseph in 1889, its 39 halls present more than 100,000 objects, including the Venus of Willendorf, a meteorite collection and a dinosaur hall.
Hansen's Greek Revival front and the Pallas Athena Fountain. 10 min
Theophil Hansen's Greek Revival parliament (1874–83), fronted by the Pallas Athena Fountain and topped by eight bronze quadrigas; it reopened in 2023 after five years of…
Vienna's first public park (1823), with over 3,000 rose bushes of more than 200 varieties, the Theseus Temple built for a Canova statue, and the Empress Elisabeth monument.
Ringstraße café founded by Franz Landtmann in 1873 next to the Burgtheater, university and City Hall; Freud, Mahler and Felix Salten were regulars, and the 1929 interior with…
Neo-Gothic thanksgiving church for Franz Joseph's survival of an 1853 assassination attempt, designed by 26-year-old Heinrich von Ferstel and dedicated in 1879; it reaches 99 m.
