Wien

Our hometown ! Vienna ! Wien ! Land of coffee and chocolates and classical music! I wanted to put together a post of photos of this reserved and beautiful place. Enjoy!

Random Vienna Photos

Canal and U-bahn snaking through the city

U-bahn train stop

Waiting for the U-bahn

Wienerschnitzel

Kurbissuppe (Pumpkin soup) aka my obsession, from Sperl Cafe

Panorama of Michaelerplatz that features the Michaelekirche tower on the right

Spiral staircase up to our apartment

Flower street art in the Margareten District

1516 Brewery - Where we found IPA bier!

The Cobblestone Streets of Wien

The Inner Stadt consists mainly of cobblestone streets with no car access

 Karlskirche 

My favorite building

Busking travelers in the Karlskirche plaza

During Vienna Design Week, the pond in front of Karlskirche was drained and replaced with a large snowglobe 

Stephansdom

Stephansdom at night

Organ inside Stephansdom

View from the South Tower of Stephandsom

Peterskirche

The Hofburg & Surrounding Area

The Hofburg area consists of one amazing building after another including: Museum fir Volkerkunde, Ephesos Museum, Hofjagd und Rustkammer Collection, Papyrus Museum, Sammlung Alter Musikinstrumente, Nationalbibliothek, Neue Burg Museums, Schatzkammer, Sisi Museum, and Spanish Riding Museum.

Austrian National Library (left) & Palm House (right)

Burggarten

Adjacent to Palm house and Austrian National Library

Walkway in-between Burggarten and Austrian National Library 

Naturhistorisches Museum

Statue of Maria Theresia

This statue is in the center of Maria-Theresien-Platz and stands between Naturhistorisches Museum and Kunsthistorisches Museum

Hofburg Palace / International Palace

Michaelerplatz & Sisi Musem

Random parade through Michaelerplatz

Museums Quarter

The Museums in the Museums quarter are all linked through large quart yards and painted walkways. Each museum quart yard consists of colored lounge chairs.

Museums include the Leopold Museum, Kunsthalle, MUMOK, and Architekturzentrum Wien.

Parliament Building featuring Athena Fountain

Volksgarten

One of my favorite garden parks thus far

A city where lunch breaks mean opening your own bottle of wine to enjoy your sandwich while looking upon the beauty of a park

Temple of Theseus in Volksgarten

Albertina (art museum)

Schonbrunn Palace

View walking in to the palace

Maze inside the palace gardens

Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee

A memorial to those who died in the 1945 Vienna Offensive

& behind the fountain

Palais Schwarzenberg

an 18th-century palace built for Prince Eugene's political rival, Count Heinrich-Franz of Mansfield. In an attempt to outdo Prince Eugene, Mansfield bought this plot, directly next to the Belvedere, and hired the same architect, Johann Lukas von Hildebrant

 Belvedere Palace

View of the backyard of the Belvedere Palace

The Vienna Secession

Founded in 1897 by artists Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, and others. The Secession artists objected to the prevailing conservatism of the Vienna Künstlerhaus with its traditional orientation toward Historicism. 

The Prater

A large public park consisting of the Wurstelprater amusement park

The famed Prater ferris wheel 

Mexikokirche or St. Francis of Assisi Church

Located in the Leopolstadt district on the Danube river

The Gasometers

These four 112-year-old gasometers have been renovated into urban complexes

This building connected to the gasometer is designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au: the firm Brandon works for

WWII Bunker Tower 

A building converted into an outdoor climbing wall and the Haus des Meeres (aquarium)