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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
German is Austria's official language; Croatian, Slovenian and Hungarian also have official status in some regions
Dialling code
+43 1
Vienna landlines; drop the leading 0 of 01 when calling from abroad
Currency
Euro (€, EUR)
Austria introduced euro banknotes and coins in 2002
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 144 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Not recorded
No verified national official source was found
Tap water
Safe to drink
Austria's national tourism authority states that tap water is drinkable in every region

Planning a visit

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Top things to see

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

  1. Vienna State Opera house
    02 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
  2. Vienna City Hall
    03 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
  3. Hofburg Palace
    04 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
  4. Musikverein
    05 1 hour

    Musikverein

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

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  5. Austrian Parliament Building
    06 1 hour

    Austrian Parliament Building

    The Austrian Parliament is a Greek temple, and the choice was an argument rather than a fashion.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  6. Burgtheater
    07 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
  7. Imperial Crypt
    08 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
  8. Graben
    09 20 min

    Graben

    The Graben is a broad, elongated square in the Innere Stadt, and its name — 'ditch' — records what it once was: the moat of the Roman legionary camp of Vindobona, filled in during the Middle Ages and built over.

    • 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 ·