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Hofburg Imperial Palace (Neue Burg) is a palace in Vienna, Austria, which has housed some of the most powerful people in Austrian history, including the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria. It was the Habsburg's principal winter residence, while Schönbrunn Palace was their preferred summer residence.

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"The Hofburg Palace is a massive complex; it was once the seat of one of the largest empires in Europe."
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"Numerous architects have executed work at the Hofburg as it expanded, notably the Italian architect-engineer Filiberto Luchese (the Leopoldischiner Trakt ), Lodovico Burnacini and Martino and Domenico Carlone ,the Baroque architects Lukas von Hildebrandt and Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach (the Reichschancelry Wing and the Winter Riding School), Johann Fischer von Erlach (the library), and the architects of the grandiose Neue Burg."
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"The arms and armor collection, second only to that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is in the Hofjagd und Rüstkammer ,on the second floor of the Neue Hofburg."
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"Plans for a vast Imperial Forum and a gigantic New Palace at the Hofburg were drawn up by the architects Karl Hasenauer and Gottfried Semper."
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"The Hofburg's styles, which are not always harmonious, result from each emperor's opting to add to or take away some of the work done by his or her predecessors."
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"The Baroque building was originally free standing, but it was linked by the Redouten range (seriously damaged by fire in 1992 and now being rebuilt) to the Hofburg in 1760."
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"This magnificent hall contains the book collection of Prince Eugene ,an enormous ceiling fresco by Daniel Gran ,and statues of emperors by Paul Strudel making this part of the Hofburg its most significant in artistic terms."
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"The Esperanto Museum is housed in the Neue Burg (entrance behind the Prince Eugene Memorial)."
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"In the Ephesos-Museum (Museum of Ephesian Sculpture), with an entrance behind the Prince Eugene monument, you'll see high-quality finds from Ephesus in Turkey and the Greek island of Samothrace."
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juha

juha from Finland wrote about Prater 2 years, one month ago

Prater holds a very fun amusement park. All the rides there are pretty expensive but most of them are very cool. If it's summertime and you're in Vienna wondering what to do, then spending the evening at Prater is not a bad choice!

amraam10

amraam10 from Slovakia wrote about Schönbrunn Palace 2 years ago

Awesome palace and must for every culture-hungry visitor in town. If you are not into paying the ticket, the zoo and gardens around are worth seeing as well.

tilkkuliini

tilkkuliini replied 10 months ago:

Exactly, I loved the garden. I also visited inside and the ballroom was breathtaking!

api

api from Finland wrote about Vienna 2 years, one month ago

A few of the the WW II anti-aircraft towers are still intact in the city. One of them houses a giant aquarium and several others are popular picnic spots. They are all worth seeing... for archtitectural value, if nothing else.

satuv

satuv from Finland wrote about Vienna one year, 7 months ago

Great place to go, especially during winter time. Beautiful city with compact shopping, great cafes (try original Sacher Torte at Hotel Sacher) and good sightseeing. 'Must place' to all who love good desserts and/or culture.

tilkkuliini

tilkkuliini replied 6 months, 2 weeks ago:

Chocolate cakes were also unbelievable tasteful! We were there in spring and there weren't many tourist then, so it was quite relaxing. I have heard that in summer the city is really crowded.

laurap

laurap from Finland wrote about Vienna one year, 7 months ago

Vienna offers easy transportation services. Works even for a blonde!

tilkkuliini

tilkkuliini replied 6 months, 2 weeks ago:

And even for a group of blonds! :D

jjtravel

jjtravel from Finland wrote about Hotel Sacher Wien one year, 7 months ago

In the first floor of this hotel you will find the Café Sacher, a place to buy an Original Sacher-Torte with you. This pricy cake is well worth testing because the taste is something unbelievably delicious. A perfect combination with apricot brandy!

liinaleijala

liinaleijala from Finland wrote about Vienna one year, 7 months ago

enough statues;D

psalmi

psalmi from Finland wrote about Vienna State Opera one year, 7 months ago

Vienna State Opera season starts unfortunately on September and thus we are going to miss the season opening when visiting the place on August.

We are going to try their Dinner and Concert offers instead.

jjtravel

jjtravel from Finland wrote about Karlskirche one year, 7 months ago

Karlskirche, an impressive baroque church with an ellipsoid shaped dome and two distinctive columns on sides. Later a large water pool, designed by Henry Moore, is added in front of the church. In the middle of this pool there is his magnificent statue 'Hill Arches'. Indeed an enchanting combination.

jjtravel

jjtravel from Finland wrote about Belvedere one year, 7 months ago

With Schönbrunn Palace Belvedere Palace is the most impressive of Vienna palaces. The palace houses interesting museums and outside is a lovely and well kept park which is open to public.

jjtravel

jjtravel from Finland wrote about Schönbrunn Palace one year, 7 months ago

In Schönbrunn Palace one can see tens of glorious rooms decorated in original style. Huge gardens surrounding the palace are well kept, with harmonious gloriette looming on its highest point.

jjtravel

jjtravel from Finland wrote about Naturhistorisches Museum one year, 7 months ago

From the Naturhistorisches Museum, situated in a grandiose palace, houses a huge collection, consisting of more that 20 million objects. A highligt of all this is a small but extremely fascinating prehistoric Venus figurine, the famous Venus of Willendorf.

jjtravel

jjtravel from Finland wrote about Naschmarkt one year, 7 months ago

A huge market area, offering an endless colourful and refreshing escape from the history filled centre of Wien.

psalmi

psalmi from Finland wrote about Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique one year, 6 months ago

Hotel Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique was a unique place in the downtown vienna in first district just a few blocks from all major sights.

The atmosphere of this hotel cannot be described in words. Everything is designed to be unique and quite unlike anything I've ever experienced before.

Rooms are quite big (for 2 persons at least). What makes them different is their design. Bath is in a closet-like space behind a desk+bed combination. Minibar is put in an oval shaped table and decoration is finished with a nice sofa.

psalmi

psalmi from Finland wrote about Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique one year, 6 months ago

Breakfast in this hotel is unique, too. Instead of an average breakfast buffet, you'll have your own "mini-buffet", sortiments of cheese, meat (or fish) and vegetables on your own small plate. Contents of the plate changes daily but every day you get also freshly squeezed energy juice, fruit salad, cereals (in a design jars, of course) and a selection different omelettes and desserts.

Fabolous place and best breakfast in any hotel I've ever been.

rasmuswesterberg1

rasmuswesterberg1 from Finland wrote about Vienna one year, 4 months ago

I didn't like Vienna. I do not know why. The local people wasn't nice. The weather was terrable.

merixi

merixi from Finland wrote about Schönbrunn Palace one year, 3 months ago

Nice if you collect royal houses.

psalmi

psalmi from Finland wrote about Vienna 11 months ago

Vienna was the fourth stop of our trip, if you count our quick visit to Venice that is. Instead of the normal way of traveling by plane we took the more idyllic option and took a river boat. In just quick six hours we were from Budapest to Vienna and saw a great deal more than you would see from a plane. The bad thing was that it took almost two extra hours because of the dams ans canals in our way.

psalmi

psalmi from Finland wrote about Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique 11 months ago

Hotel Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique was a unique place in the downtown vienna in first district just a few blocks from all major sights.

The atmosphere of this hotel cannot be described in words. Everything is designed to be unique and quite unlike anything I've ever experienced before.

Rooms are quite big (for 2 persons at least). What makes them different is their design. Bath is in a closet-like space behind a desk+bed combination. Minibar is put in an oval shaped table and decoration is finished with a nice sofa. They have cd-player, tv and free lan connection in every room and a small movie theatre with three shows every night. It's only that you need to know some germany before the movies are of use as most of them didn't have any subtitles.

psalmi

psalmi from Finland wrote about Museumsquartier 11 months ago

Museumsquartet in Vienna is the home of numerous museums in one place. We decided to visit MoMA, museum of modern art and Austrias national museum on the other side of the square.

Museums were, as expected, dull as museums get (or disruptive, when it comes to modern art) but most fun we got out the ticket office when trying to buy a cheaper family ticket for just the two of us. Apparently being pregnant doesn't count as family but the clerk pitied us enough to give us the discount anyway.

psalmi

psalmi replied 11 months ago:

The cafe outside MoMA was excellent place for a cup of tea and glass of sparkling wine.

psalmi

psalmi from Finland wrote about Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique 11 months ago

What is a visit to Vienna without an opera? Nothing it seems as eating a fish sandwich from a street bar proved to be a bad idea. I suffered from a food poisoning and had to stay confined in the hotel quarters for the next 36 hours and was unable to do anything touristy in the city.

nipsu

nipsu from Finland wrote about Hofburg Imperial Palace 10 months, one week ago

When comparing to Schönbrunn, I liked it more, because there our guided tour had lot of humour and it was more interesting. Still, both palaces are worth seeing...you can only imagine, how was the life in those places hundreds of years ago...

tilkkuliini
tilkkuliiniloves Schönbrunn Palace because Fell in love with that place, I could have my weddings there :P
tilkkuliini
tilkkuliiniloves Hundertwasserhaus because Incredible place.
tilkkuliini

tilkkuliini from Finland wrote about Hundertwasserhaus 10 months ago

Haven't seen anything like that before. I liked especially about those villages that the artist has created. There are funny floors and toilets :D

thomas

thomas asked a question about Vienna 7 months, 2 weeks ago

where to go for dancing

oshioshi

oshioshi replied 7 months, 2 weeks ago:

Wanna go dancing, depends.
- A club you should see is the Flex. It was one of the first underground clubs in Vienna, but by now it is mainstream, but still quite impressive (www.flex.at)
- Also a nice place to go and dance is Club U (www.club-u.at), usually with alternative music (mostly electronic)
- Third recommendation is Ost Klub (www.ost-klub.at) which plays modern music from the east and in general a lot from the 'World' genre.
- Also make sure you dont miss out Arena (www.arena.co.at) since sometimes you get the really good concerts there (speciall in summer, outdoors)

To find out what is on in Vienna, use this link:
http://www.falter.at/web/event/home.php

Enjoy!

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aaronkrassloves Vienna because Beautiful downtown
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aaronkrassloves Vienna because Beautiful downtown
sarahjanedoe
sarahjanedoeloves Vienna because Cafes and museums