Jugendstil Vienna around Karlsplatz: Loos's café, Wagner's station pavilions, the Karlskirche and Wien Museum, the Secession, then along the Naschmarkt to Wagner's tiled Majolikahaus, ending at Café Sperl.
Best time: Late morning into lunch, when the Naschmarkt is busy; the Majolikahaus façade is best in daylight.
Opened in 1899 with a sober Adolf Loos interior nicknamed 'Café Nihilismus'; Klimt, Schiele, Joseph Roth and Alban Berg were guests, and it reopened in 2010 after remodelling.
Wagner and Olbrich's pavilions; one is a Wien Museum exhibition space. 15 min
Otto Wagner and Joseph Maria Olbrich's 1899 Jugendstil station buildings, a steel frame hung with marble slabs; saved from demolition by public outcry when the line became the…
Baroque plague church with its two relief columns. 30 min
Charles VI pledged this Baroque church in 1713 after Vienna's last major plague; built 1716–1737 by the Fischer von Erlachs, it has two columns modelled on Trajan's Column and a…
City history museum; a short look or a longer visit. 30 min
The city history museum, with exhibits from the Neolithic to the mid-20th century and a strong 19th-century focus, including Klimt; it reopened in December 2023 after three years…
Olbrich's domed hall; Klimt's Beethoven Frieze is inside. 30 min
Joseph Maria Olbrich's 1897–98 exhibition hall, built as the manifesto of the rebel Vienna Secession artists; Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, made for the 1902 exhibition, has been…
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Naschmarkt
Walk through the market stalls along the Wienzeile. 20 min
Wagner's majolica-tiled façade and the Medallion House next door. 10 min
Otto Wagner's 1898–99 apartment house with a façade covered in floral majolica tiles; next door at no. 38 is his Medallion House with bronze medallions and roof angels.
End in the 1880 Kaffeehaus with billiard tables. 45 min
Neighbourhood Kaffeehaus in Mariahilf since 1880, with parquet floors, Thonet chairs, marble tables and carom billiard tables; it appears in Before Sunrise (1995) and A Dangerous…
