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Description:
The Berlitz Vienna Pocket Guide covers all the major sights, area by area, in an easily navigable format. Descriptions of tourist attractions include the Hofburg, Belvedere and Schonbrunn palaces, St Stephen's Cathedral and Vienna's major museums. The guide also contains background historical information, advice on shopping, music and entertainment, and the low-down on eating out. There is an A-Z of practical information, listings of recommended hotels and restaurants and useful expressions in German. The book also contains special features on topics ranging from the waltz to Klimt and Schiele. Excursions outside the city are also described including the Danube Valley and Wienerwald. Maps show Central Vienna and excursions, and there are dozens of colour photographs throughout.
Contents:
Maps: Central Vienna; Excursions.
Vienna and the Viennese; A Brief History.
Where to Go: Getting Around; Innere Stadt; The Hofburg ; Ringstrasse and its Museums; Outside the Ring; Schonbrunn; Across the Danube; Viennas Suburbs; Wienerwald; Danube Valley; To the East.
What to Do: Entertainment; Sports; Shopping; Childrens Activities.
Eating Out; Handy Travel Tips; Hotels and Restaurants; Index.
Extract:
Vienna makes life relatively easy for the newcomer by packing nearly all its major attractions inside the Innere Stadt (Inner City). This means that places such as the Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral), the Hofburg (Imperial Palace), the Burgtheater (National Theatre), Mozart's house, the Staatsoper (State Opera) and the shops on and around Kartnerstrasse and the Graben are all within walking distance. Even the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts) and Karlskirche are only just outside the Ringstrasse that marks the medieval precincts of the 1st District.
Romantic or just plain footsore, you may like at least once to take a tour in a Fiaker horse-drawn carriage. Vienna's answer to Venice's gondolas wait at a number of spots around the Innere Stadt, including Stephansplatz, Albertinaplatz and Heldenplatz.
