The Giant Ferris Wheel (Riesenrad), built in 1897, turns slowly in the Prater amusement park, its red wooden cabins rising 65 m over Vienna. It starred in the film The Third Man. The park around it has rides old and new, and beer gardens.
The Prater's main avenue, lined with chestnut trees, runs for 4 km through woodland and meadows, popular for cycling and jogging. The Wurstelprater amusement area is free to enter; you pay per ride.
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…
Two baroque palaces built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, facing each other across terraced gardens.
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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