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Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the cities on the Danube river .
- History of Vienna
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- Tourist Attractions in Vienna
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- Vienna International Airport
Vienna Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) is an international...
- Café Savoy
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- Vienna (Disambiguation)
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- Vienna City Hall
Vienna City Hall (German: Wiener Rathaus) is the seat of...
- Provinces of Austria
The majority of the land area in the federal states of Upper...
- Hofburg
The Hofburg (German: [hoːf.buʁk]) is the former principal...
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
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- St. Stephen's Cathedral
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- History of Vienna
Vienna – capital of Austria and one of its nine states. It is the country's largest city, with over 1.8 million residents [1] within an area of 414.65 km 2 (160.10 sq mi). Vienna has a rich heritage and is considered one of the most livable cities in the world.
Vienna, German Wien, City (pop., 2007 est.: 1,664,146; metro. area, 1,954,964), capital of Austria, on the Danube River. It was founded by the Celts; it became a Roman military station in the 1st century bce.
Austria is, after Switzerland, the most mountainous country of Europe, and about four-fifths of its entire area is more than 600 feet above the level of the sea. The mountains are frequently covered with vegetation to a great elevation.
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Vienna is composed of twenty-three districts (Bezirke). Legally, they are not districts in the sense of administrative bodies with explicit powers (such as the districts in the other Austrian states), but mere subdivisions of the city administration. Elections at the district level give the representatives of the districts some political power in f...
Vienna is today considered the centre of Social Democracy in Austria. Until 1918, Viennese politics were shaped by the Austrian Christian Social Party. During the period of the First Republic (1918-1934), the Vienna Social Democrats undertook many overdue social reforms, improving the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of workers in the city...
Religion
Vienna is the seat of the Viennese Roman Catholicarchdiocese, in which is also vested the exempt Ordinariate for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Austria; its Archbishop is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. Many Catholic churches in central Vienna feature performances of religious or other music, including masses sung to classical music and organ. Some of Vienna's most significant historical buildings are Catholic churches, including the St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom), Karlskirche, Peterskirche...
Music, theatre and opera
Art and culture, including theatre, opera, classical music and fine arts, have a long tradition in Vienna. The Burgtheater is considered one of the best theatres in the German-speaking world alongside its branch, the Akademietheater. The Volkstheater Wien and the Theater in der Josefstadt also enjoy good reputations. There is also a multitude of smaller theatres, in many cases devoted to less mainstream forms of performing arts, such as modern, experimental plays or cabaret. Vienna is also ho...
Viennese Waltz
The Viennese Waltz, oldest of all ballroom dances, emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century from the German dance and the Ländler in Austria. In the beginning it was disapproved of because the ladies’ ankles were visible, and was considered unsuitable for unmarried girls. Later it gained official acceptance and became popular due to the Congress of Vienna at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the famous compositions by Josef Lanner, Johann Strauss I and his son, Johann S...
Vienna is also Austria's main center of education and home to many universities, professional collegesand gymnasiums.
Twelve bridges cross the Danube in the city, which is divided by the Danubeand its branch, the Neue Donau ("new Danube").
Viennese parks and gardens
Vienna possesses many park facilities and is one of the greenest cities in the world. Parks include the Stadtpark, the Burggarten, the Volksgarten (part of the Hofburg), the Schloßpark at Schloss Belvedere (home to the Vienna Botanic Gardens), the Donaupark, the Schönbrunner Schlosspark, the Prater, the Augarten, the Rathauspark, the Lainzer Tiergarten, the Dehnepark, the Resselpark, the Votivpark, the Kurpark Oberlaa, the Auer-Welsbach-Park and the Türkenschanzpark. Green areas include Laaer...
Sport
Vienna hosts many different sporting events including the Vienna City Marathon, which attracts more than 10,000 participants every year and normally takes place in May. In 2005 the Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Austriaand the final was played in Vienna. Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium was the venue of four Champions League and European Champion Clubs' Cup finals (1964, 1987, 1990, 1995, and 2008). Austria's capital is home to numerous teams. The best known are the local football...
Food
Vienna is well known for Wiener schnitzel, a cutlet of veal that is pounded flat, coated in flour, egg and breadcrumbs, and fried in clarified butter. It is available in almost every restaurant that serves Viennese cuisine. Other examples of Viennese cuisine include "Tafelspitz" (very lean boiled beef), which is traditionally served with "Gerösteten Erdäpfeln" (boiled potatoes mashed with a fork and subsequently fried) and horseradish sauce, "Apfelkren" (a mixture of horseradish, cream and ap...
Drink
Vienna is the world's only capital city with its own vineyards (although Paris also retains a single vineyard, and Praguehas some also). The wine is served in small Viennese pubs known as Heuriger, which are especially numerous in the wine growing areas of Döbling (Grinzing, Neustift am Walde, Nußdorf, Salmannsdorf, Sievering) and Floridsdorf (Stammersdorf, Strebersdorf). The wine is often drunk as a spritzer ("G'spritzter") with sparkling water. The Grüner Veltliner, a white wine, is the mos...
Viennese cafés
Viennese cafés have an extremely long and distinguished history that dates back centuries, and the famous historical patrons of the oldest are something of a local legend, called "café society". Traditionally, the coffee comes with a glass of water. Viennese cafés claim to have invented the process of filtering coffeefrom bounty captured after the second Turkish siege in 1683. Viennese cafés claim that when the invading Turks left Vienna, they abandoned hundreds of sacks of coffee beans. The...
Major tourist attractions include the imperial palaces of the Hofburg and Schönbrunn(also home to the world's oldest zoo, Tiergarten Schönbrunn) and the Riesenrad in the Prater. Cultural highlights include the Burgtheater, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Lipizzaner horses at the spanische Hofreitschule and the Vienna Boys' Choir, as well as excursions t...
Vienna is the seat of a number of United Nationsoffices and various international institutions and companies, including the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test...
Alongside the international and intergovernmental organizations, dozens of charitable organizations are based in Vienna, providing reliefgoods and assistance to tens of thousands of disadvantaged children and needy people in developing countries. One such organization is the network of SOS Children's Villages, founded by Hermann Gmeiner in 1949. To...
Vienna - Imperial Capital, Culture, Music: Before and during World War II a number of Vienna’s citizens, most notably more than 100,000 Jews, emigrated to the West in order to escape the Nazis. Following the war, Vienna’s population decreased when part of Greater Vienna was reintegrated with the province of Lower Austria.
Hofburg, vast complex of buildings in the center of Vienna, Austria, that was the former imperial palace and winter palace of the Habsburg dynasty and has been since 1946 the official residence and office of the president of Austria.
