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District guide · Vienna
929 places catalogued in Innere Stadt so far.
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St Stephen's is the cathedral of Vienna and it stands in the exact centre of the city, which is why every direction in the Innere Stadt is described from it.
The Vienna State Opera was hated when it opened and it killed both its architects.
The Rathaus is a Gothic cathedral that turned out to be a town hall, and it is the largest secular building on the Ringstrasse.
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.
The Hofburg is not a palace but a district of palaces, and the Austrian president works in it.
The Musikverein holds the best-sounding concert hall in the world, and it happened partly by accident.
The Austrian Parliament is a Greek temple, and the choice was an argument rather than a fashion.
The Burgtheater is Austria's national theatre and one of the most important German-language stages in the world.
The Imperial Crypt is where the Habsburgs are buried, and it is under an ordinary friary church on a shopping street.
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.
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