Two baroque palaces built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, facing each other across terraced gardens. The Upper Belvedere holds the world's largest collection of Gustav Klimt's paintings, including the golden masterpiece The Kiss, alongside Schiele, Kokoschka and other Austrian art.
Book tickets online; the Upper Belvedere is the one to see if you're short of time. The gardens are free and give a fine view of the city.
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, and a 13…
The Hofburg was the Habsburgs' winter palace for more than 600 years, now home to the Austrian president and several museums: the Imperial Apartments…
The Giant Ferris Wheel (Riesenrad), built in 1897, turns slowly in the Prater amusement park, its red wooden cabins rising 65 m over Vienna.
The Habsburgs' 1,441-room summer palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where Empress Maria Theresa, Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth (Sisi)…
A magnificent baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, with a gilded church and a stunning library.
A wooded hill in the middle of Graz, Austria's second city, crowned by the Clock Tower (Uhrturm), the symbol of the city.
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