tell me the best sightseeings in vienna ?!?

Question

i'm a tourist in austria and i'll stay here for 2 months i wanna know the best places here for visiting if there are some sites pls mention them too. i've already visited salzburg and it was incredible!i recommend ya all to visit it you wont miss it!!!!!

Answer 1

Wow... Sooo many things to see in Vienna !!!
All the inside of the "Ring" is worth seeing.

The "Schloss Schönbrunn" was the palace of the Austrian emperors, if you like Versailles, you'll like this one too. Magnificent palace, beautiful gardens...

Many religious monuments are worth the sight, most of the them in the Ring (Innere Stadt) :
Stephensdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral) is quite impressive too (it's on Stephensplatz). I'm not used to pay for visiting a cathedral, but it's not a big issue. Stephensplatz has some nice monuments, near it, there is the Pestsäule, a column monument commemorating a pest epidemia. Subject sad but nevertheless impressive and beautiful monument.

Peterskirche (St Peter's Church) is also very beautiful.

Non-religious : The Staatopera (Opera) is beautiful too, Hofburg castle is nice (I didn't enter) as well as the Belvedere palace (also seen only from the outside). On Schwarzenberg place, there is a colossal monument to the Red Army.

In the modern part of town, near the NATO building, there is a big tower of 250 m (Donauturm = Danube tower), where you can have a good view of the city at 150 m high. Around, a big park where people like to rest.

If you want to have fun, there is a permanent attraction park called the Prater with an ancestral "Grand Wheel" (Riesenrad) which is quite famous, but also many modern attractions, and restaurants too.

For museums, I hadn't the time to visit much. I've seen the "Liechtenstein museum", the museum with the Prince of Liechtenstein's private art collection, coming from buyings or paintings ordered by his ancestors. It may be a small museum considering Vienna's standards, and apart from some Rembrandt and Rubens paintings, few artists from his collection are well known. But believe me, it really worth the visit !

I didn't had time to see them, but the Kunsthistorisches Museum (art history) and Naturhistorisches Museum (nature history) are reputated. There is also a museum focused on Jewish history, I've heard it's interesting. Albertina has many drawings from Rubens, Da Vinci...

To eat, you can try the "heuriges", in a area where some vineyards are protected. These are restaurants where you have to take the food yourself, and order the local wine (and when I say local... It's really local, it's the restaurant's own wine). In some of them, there are musicians that play some Strauss and classic Viennese pieces. Otherwise, there are many more classic restaurants where you can enjoy the local Wiener Schnitzel (excellent) and white wines.

If you have some time, you can take a boat from Vienna that can bring you to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia (80 km, 1h30 of boat trip on the Danube). Less luxurious, but worth a 1-day visit - the charm of Eastern Europe.

That's all I can say, I only stayed one week, but fell under the charm !! Take a good map and travel guide, there are many many things to see. Even the City Hall, built in the late 1880s in a neo-gothic style is impressive.

Answer 2

All right, you said you had two months, right?

Ok, I am from Vienna and what a_t_c_h_o_u_m told you sums up the most important sights. Good job, a_t_c_h_o_u_m!

Here are a few little things worth mentioning too.
- Make sure you go to see the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn (our Zoo). It is over 250 years old and therefore the oldest zoo in the world.
- Walk around the Spittelberg in the 7th discrict, starting right behind the Museumsquartier. It used to be the red light district (300 years ago) and most of the buildings date back to 1750 and prior. It's absolutely worth seeing, especially before Christmas when they put up the Christmas Market.
- If you want to get drunk really cheap go to the "Bierheim" in the 7th district. It's in Neustiftgasse and 48A will take you there if you get off Neubaugasse.
- Make sure you go to the Schnitzelwirt in the Neubaugasse. 49 will take you there. Get on at Volkstheater and get off Neubaugasse. Make a right on Neubaugasse and its on your right about 100 feet. There is only a little yellow sign outside. So make sure you don't miss it. They serve the best, biggest and simply greatest Schnitzl in the world. And everybody goes there! It's a great place to meet people!
-If you are a little bit into medicine or just interested in unusual stuff, go to see the Narrentrum in the AAKH (old hospital in the 9th discrict which is now our campus). It has a collection of all kinds of things caused by illnesses, all kinds of skulls, bones and other groce stuff. But it is interesting, especially as the collection was started hundreds of years ago.
- If you like little museums, I could recommend the Clock Museum in the 1st district, and also the Butterfly house (which used to be in the Burggarten and I am not sure if it is still there or if it was moved back to Schoenbrunn). But its easy to find. Just behind the Hofburg.
-If you like shopping, make sure you go to the SCS, continental Europe's biggest mall. You can take the IKEA bus for free, which leaves accross from the Opera house. The ticket back is only 1.50!
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Answer 3

There's so much to enjoy in Austria! You'll want to read our travelogue of Wachau, Krems, Melk, Durnstein, Salzburg, Kufstein, Kitzbuehel, Rattenberg, Hall, Innsbruck, Zell Am See, Kaprun, Spittal, Klagenfurt, Graz and Vienna for ideas for your trip: http://www.thetravelzine.com/Austria_2005_1_Wachau.htm