Vienna’s best bits:
Vienna is a city synonymous with prancing white Lipizzaner horses, Strauss waltzes, Sigmund Freud, art noveau, the River Danube and its elegant cafes and restaurants. But there is much more to the city than this!
Visitors can tour this city by foot, bike, tram or for a real feel for the city hop on a fiaker (a horse draw carriage)! Must see attractions to stop off at on your travels of the city include the Hofburg Imperial Palace - home to the "Österreichische Nationalbibliothek" (National Library), "Schatzkammer" (Imperial Treasury), "Museum für Völkerkunde" (Museum of Ethnography) and the very popular"Spanische Hofreitschule" Spanish Riding School. While here it's also worth checking out the unusual collection of butterflies in the palace's art deco style glass house!
At the Belevede Palace, you can visit top museums like "Österreichisches Barockmuseum" (Austrian Museum of Baroque Art) which houses 18th century Austrian art. The Palace also boasts collections of 19th and 20th century works of art. In the gardens of this palace there's an alpine garden which has over 4,000 species of alpine plants!
Vienna has about 90 museums including one of the finest art museums in Europe - a must see for any art-lover. It's called the Kunsthistorisches and has lots of art noveau collections the most famous being the works of Peter Paul Rubens.
The Schonbrunn Palace is a bit out of the city but well worth the visit and is pretty easy to get to by metro. Take a tour of this magnficent palace and see where the Empress Maria Theresia used to live.
Other attractions to look out for include the Anchor Clock, the Burgtheater, the Ring Boulevard, the Karlskirche Cathedral, St. Stephen's Cathedral (with its catacombes underneath) and the unusual looking Haas House!
As Vienna has been home to some of the world's most famous composers (Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss) visitors to Vienna should really take in a night at the Opera. The Staatsopera could be considered one of the greatest opera venues in the world.