List of sights in Vienna

Collage of different sights in Vienna

The main sights of the city of Vienna

The Hofburg, a historical center of power with art collections

Schönbrunn Palace, luxurious summer residence of the Habsburgs

Upper Belvedere: Austrian art around Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele

Army History Museum, the oldest museum in Vienna

The Burgtheater, one of the magnificent buildings on the Ringstrasse, the former "shop window" of the Danube Monarchy

The Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic

The ferris wheel, one of the landmarks of Vienna and its Prater

(Alphabetical order)

• Albertina
• Belvedere
• Army History Museum in the Arsenal
• Hofburg with treasure chamber and Schweizerhof , castle chapel , imperial apartments , Sisi museum and court silver and table chamber , Heldenplatz , stable castle and Spanish riding school , Leopoldine wing , New Castle , Ephesus museum , armory and collection of old musical instruments
• Inner city (1st district), with the "golden U" of the shopping streets Kärntner Straße , Graben and Kohlmarkt as well as with churches, palaces, theaters, bars, restaurants etc.
• Josefsplatz with Palais Pallavicini , Palais Pálffy and Augustinian Church as well as the entrances to the State Hall of the Austrian National Library and the Spanish Riding School
• Karlskirche
• Mariahilfer Strasse , the city's main shopping street
• Maria-Theresien-Platz with the Museum of Art History , Museum of Natural History and Maria-Theresien Monument
• Museumsquartier with Leopold Museum , MUMOK , Architekturzentrum Wien and Tanzquartier Wien etc.
• Austrian National Library
• Prater , Wurstelprater amusement park with Ferris wheel and Schweizerhaus (beer garden), Liliputbahn and local recreation area
• Ringstrasse with Otto Wagner's Post Office Savings Bank , Schwarzenbergplatz , State Opera , Parliament , City Hall , Burgtheater , the historic main building of the University of Vienna , Votive Church , Vienna Stock Exchange and Ringturm
• Schönbrunn Palace with the Vienna Zoo , the Castle Park and the Gloriette , Vienna Neptune Fountain , Privy Garden , dovecote , Butterfly House , Palace Theater , Palm House , Sundial House (since 2004 Wüstenhaus ) wagons
• City park with the most photographed monument in the city, the Johann Strauss Monument
• Stephansdom
• Central cemetery with honorary graves of famous personalities and cemetery church for St. Charles Borromeo

More Attractions

(Alphabetical order)

• Arnold Schoenberg Center
• Bohemian Prater
• Castle garden with butterfly house and palm house
• Dorotheum , historical auction house
• Sankt Marxer Friedhof (with Mozart grave)
• Gasometer , industrial architecture from yesteryear with new elements
• Geymüllerschlössel (collection of historical clocks)
• House of the Teutonic Order with treasury
• House of the Sea in the flak tower from World War II
• Hermesvilla in the Lainzer Tiergarten
• Imperial Furniture Collection (Furniture Museum)
• Judenplatz (Shoah memorial, built by Rachel Whiteread , and Museum Judenplatz Vienna, a department of the Jewish Museum)
• Jewish Museum Vienna
• Kapuzinergruft (Imperial Crypt)
• Liechtenstein Museum in the Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Rossau and from 2012 in the Liechtenstein City Palace in the 1st district
• Looshaus at Michaelerplatz (built by Adolf Loos )
• MAK: see Austrian ...
• Nussdorf weir and lock system
• Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)
• Palais Augarten ( Augarten Porcelain Manufactory )
• Auersperg Palace
• Kinsky Palace
• Palais Liechtenstein: see Liechtenstein Museum
• Lobkowitz Palace
• Palais Mollard-Clary , u. a. with the Globe Museum of the National Library
• Pallavicini Palace
• Schwarzenberg Palace
• Palais, for more, see: List of Palais in Vienna
• planetarium
• Secession
• Neuwaldegg Castle
• New building
• Sigmund Freud Museum
• Spittelberg
• Art Nouveau light rail
• Stadttempel (synagogue in the inner city)
• Hetzendorf Castle
• Strudlhof stairs
• Technical Museum Vienna
• Theater an der Wien
• Theater in the Josefstadt
• Theresianum ( Old Favorita )
• Urania on the Danube Canal
• Villa Primavesi (built by Josef Hoffmann )
• Volksoper
• Popular theater

Churches (selection)

Peterskirche

• Dominican Church
• Franz-von-Assisi-Kirche at Mexikoplatz
• Holy Trinity Greek Church
• Karlskirche
• Am Hof ​​Church
• Church am Steinhof (built by Otto Wagner )
• Lutheran town church
• Church Mary on the Strand
• Michaelerkirche
• Minorite Church
• Peterskirche
• Piarist Church
• Reformed city church
• Ruprechtskirche
• Russian Orthodox Cathedral
• Saint Salvator
• Schottenkirche , Abbey Church of the Schottenstift
• University Church (Jesuit Church)
• Virgil Chapel
• Wotruba Church

Monuments (selection)

Mozart monument

• Beethoven monument on Beethovenplatz
• Anton Bruckner , city park
• Empress Elisabeth , Volksgarten
• Emperor Franz I of Austria in the Hofburg
• Franz Grillparzer , Volksgarten
• Red Army Heroes' Monument , Schwarzenbergplatz
• Holocaust memorial on Judenplatz
• Roman-German Emperor Joseph II on Josefsplatz
• Archduke Karl , winner of the Battle of Aspern in 1809, on Heldenplatz
• Memorial against war and fascism on Albertinaplatz
• Maria-Theresien-Monument on Maria-Theresien-Platz
• Mozart monument in the Burggarten
• Plague column on the moat
• Prinz-Eugen-Reiterdenkmal , the "Turks Conqueror", on the Heldenplatz
• Field Marshal Radetzky in front of the former War Ministry
• Johann Strauss , the "waltz king", in the city park
• Strauss father and Lanner , Rathauspark
• Admiral Tegetthoff , Praterstern

Vienna modern

Gasometer in Vienna-Simmering

The UNO-City, center of the most important international organizations based in Vienna

DC Tower 1, tallest building in Austria

• Vienna International Center (UNO City)
• Danube City
• Danube Tower
• DC Tower 1 (tallest building in Austria)
• Hundertwasser-Krawina-Haus (named after the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and the participating architect Josef Krawina )
• Spittelau waste incineration plant (facade designed by Hundertwasser)
• Main library on the belt
• Gasometer (former gas tanks converted into apartments and a shopping center )
• Hauptbahnhof (new long-distance rail hub: opened November 2014)

Parks and nature

• Lainzer Tiergarten
• City park with Vienna river
• Volksgarten Vienna
• Kurpark Oberlaa with Japanese Garden (Takasakipark)
• Türkenschanzpark
• Pötzleinsdorf Palace Park
• Kahlenberg
• Leopoldsberg
• Vienna Woods
• Danube Island
• Lobau
• Donau-Auen National Park
• Cemetery of the Nameless

Viennese legends

• Brunnenmarkt
• Grinzing ( Heurige )
• Naschmarkt
• Karl-Marx-Hof
• Viennese flak towers
• Café Hawelka
• Café Central

Technical equipment

Technical Museum

Freudenau power plant

• Anchor clock
• Viennese flak towers in Augarten (2nd district), in Arenbergpark (3rd district), in Esterházypark (6th district) and in the Stiftskaserne (7th district)
• Transport Museum Remise (3rd district)
• Vienna Arsenal radio tower (3rd district)
• District heating plant or waste incineration plant in Spittelau , designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser (9th district)
• Water tower Favoriten on the Wienerberg (10th district)
• Central marshalling yard Wien-Kledering (10th district)
• Old gasometer in Simmering (11th district)
• Old Viennese Schnaps Museum (12th district)
• Technical Museum Vienna (14th district)
• Ottakringer Brewery (16th district)
• Kuffner Observatory (16th district)
• University Observatory Vienna (18th district)
• Nussdorf weir and lock system by Otto Wagner (20th district)

See also

• List of sights in Austria
• Most visited sights in Vienna
• List of museums in Vienna