Vienna

Travel tips for Vienna (3)

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  Belvedere Palace and Klimt's The Kiss, Vienna

  Two baroque palaces built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, facing each other across terraced gardens.

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  Prater and the Giant Ferris Wheel, Vienna

  The Giant Ferris Wheel (Riesenrad), built in 1897, turns slowly in the Prater amusement park, its red wooden cabins rising 65 m over Vienna.

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  St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna

  Vienna's Gothic cathedral, the symbol of the city, with a roof of coloured glazed tiles in a zigzag pattern and the eagles of the Habsburgs…