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Vienna, Austria

Things to do in Vienna

Everything in the Atlas for Vienna: places to see and things to do, in one list.

Schönbrunn Palace

1,441 rooms, a park that is free to walk, and a zoo founded in 1752 that is the oldest still operating anywhere.

Castle · half a day

Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Habsburg collection, which means the largest group of Bruegels in existence and a room of Vermeer, Velázquez and Caravaggio that would be a national museum anywhere else.

Museum · 3–4 hours

Stephansdom

The tiled roof is the thing: 230,000 glazed tiles in a chevron pattern, laid as a double eagle on one side and the city arms on the other.

Church · 1 hour

Naschmarkt

A kilometre and a half of stalls that began as a milk market in the 1770s. Cheaper and less performed at the far end from the underground station.

Market · 1–2 hours

Standing room at the Staatsoper

A few euros, queued for on the night, in one of the great opera houses. Bring a scarf to tie to the rail and hold your place.

Music & performance · low

A heuriger on the city edge

Wine taverns in Vienna's own vineyards, open only when the grower has wine to sell — a pine branch over the door means open.

Cellar & vineyard · moderate

This page exists because Vienna has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Vienna.