Sightseeing Vienna

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St Charles' Church

A striking sacred building with a mighty dome: the Karlskirche, the last great work of the baroque star architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Today you can experience authentic concerts here with the "Orchestra 1756" and its soloists, who play on original instruments. Just a 5-minute walk away and definitely worth a visit!

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St Stephen's Cathedral

St Stephen's Cathedral is Vienna's landmark. Construction began in the 12th century. Today it is the most important Gothic building in Austria. Climb 343 steps to reach the Türmerstube, from where you have a gigantic view over Vienna. It takes 15 minutes to get from the Hotel Kaiserhof to St Stephen's Cathedral - on foot, no less!

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Belvedere Palace

The Belvedere is not only a magnificent baroque palace, but also houses one of the most valuable art collections in Austria - with major works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. The Belvedere is only 10 minutes away from the Hotel Kaiserhof Wien and is definitely worth a visit!

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Vienna City Hall

Vienna City Hall is the head office of Vienna's municipal administration and the meeting place of the city senate/state government and municipal council/state parliament. The City Hall was built between 1872 and 1883 and is a building of superlatives: around 30 million bricks and more than 40,000 cubic metres of natural stone were used.

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Capuchin crypt

Also known as the "Imperial Crypt", the Capuchin Crypt is the burial place of the emperors and empresses of the House of Habsburg and their families, with works of art that reflect more than four centuries of Austrian and European history. Expanded again and again over the course of time, the best artists of their time designed the crypt rooms and the magnificent sarcophagi.

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Geymüllerschlössel

The Geymüllerschlössel is one of the few places in Austria where the Biedermeier period can be marvelled at in its original form. But it is also home to great contemporary art. Gothic, Indian and Arabic styles combined in one building? Yes, that also exists in Vienna. The Geymüllerschlössel is located in Pötzleinsdorf, part of the 18th district. Commissioned by banker Johann Jakob Geymüller and erected in 1808, the building combines different styles in keeping with the spirit of the times.

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Remise Transport Museum

The new transport museum of Wiener Linien was opened in the former Erdberg depot in 2014. It displays historical and modern vehicles and offers interactive insights into Vienna's public transport system. The site of the new transport museum was a depot for trams until 1990 and was built around 1900. Today it is a modern museum for the whole family. On display are many historical exhibits - especially trams and buses.

03

Planetarium

The most modern star projector in the world awaits you at the Vienna Planetarium. This is used to display the starry sky in a deceptively realistic way during various "astro-shows". What's more, the stars, star clusters, galaxies and nebulae are shown in their true colours and sometimes even sparkle mysteriously. Over 9,000 of the mysterious "inhabitants of the heavens" are shown, many of which are not even visible to the naked eye. A unique laser image projector also provides astronomical images, films and computer animations in brilliant colours. Fascinating universe - right next to the Ferris wheel ...

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Funeral Museum

The Funeral Museum at Vienna's Central Cemetery provides an insight into the burial and cemetery culture of past centuries. Interesting, morbid and wonderfully bizarre. In Vienna, the "schöne Leich" is not just a pompous funeral, but also an expression of a way of life. The Viennese have a very special relationship with death. So where could the Funeral Museum be better placed than at Vienna's world-famous Central Cemetery?

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Crime Museum

Visitors to the Crime Museum should have nerves of steel, as the most sensational Austrian criminal offences of the past centuries are documented here, as well as various types of capital punishment. The museum is housed in the "Seifensiederhaus", one of the oldest houses in Leopoldstadt (as the 2nd district of Vienna is called). Murder reports from the Middle Ages to the present day take up a lot of space: The spectrum ranges from the display boards of the Moritatensänger to leaflets describing the lives of famous criminals and contemporary newspaper reports. The spectrum ranges from criminal cases such as poison murders and jealousy murders to Austria's most famous serial killer, Jack Unterweger.