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District guide · Vienna

Innere Stadt

A photograph of Innere Stadt
Photograph · Gryffindor · CC BY 2.5

929 places catalogued in Innere Stadt so far.

Practical information

Language spoken
German
English is understood in tourist districts and rarely outside them
Dialling code
+43 1
Vienna landlines; drop the leading 0 of 01 when calling from abroad
Currency
Euro (€, EUR)
Cards accepted almost everywhere; markets prefer cash
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 144 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Type C and F · 230 V
Standard European two-pin
Tap water
Safe to drink
Vienna's supply is piped from Alpine springs

Planning a visit

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  7. July: seasonal closure recorded
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Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  1. Hofburg Palace
    02 20 min

    Hofburg Palace

    The Hofburg is not a palace but a district of palaces, and the Austrian president works in it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  2. Imperial Crypt
    03 45 min

    Imperial Crypt

    The Imperial Crypt is where the Habsburgs are buried, and it is under an ordinary friary church on a shopping street.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  3. Vienna State Opera house
    04 45 min

    Vienna State Opera house

    The Vienna State Opera was hated when it opened and it killed both its architects.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  4. Burgtheater
    05 1 hour

    Burgtheater

    The Burgtheater is Austria's national theatre and one of the most important German-language stages in the world.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  5. Musikverein
    06 1 hour

    Musikverein

    The Musikverein holds the best-sounding concert hall in the world, and it happened partly by accident.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  6. Vienna City Hall
    07 20 min

    Vienna City Hall

    The Rathaus is a Gothic cathedral that turned out to be a town hall, and it is the largest secular building on the Ringstrasse.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  7. Spanish Riding School
    08 1 hr 30 min

    Spanish Riding School

    The Spanish Riding School is the world's oldest institution still practising classical Baroque horsemanship in its original form, tracing its riding tradition back to 1572 and its Lipizzaner breeding programme to the Habsburgs' interest in Spanish-bred horses.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  8. Café Central
    09 1 hour

    Café Central

    Café Central opened in 1876 inside the Palais Ferstel, a Neo-Renaissance building designed by Heinrich von Ferstel that originally combined the Austro-Hungarian Bank with a covered arcade of shops.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  9. Heldenplatz
    10 20 min

    Heldenplatz

    Heldenplatz is an unfinished square in front of the Hofburg, and it is the most politically loaded piece of ground in Austria.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata ·