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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. Natural History Museum
    02 2 hr 30 min

    Natural History Museum

    The Natural History Museum is the twin of the art museum opposite it, and it holds thirty million objects.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  2. Albertina
    03 2 hours

    Albertina

    The Albertina is a Habsburg palace on the last remaining bastion of the city wall, and it holds one of the great collections of works on paper.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  3. Secession Building
    04 45 min

    Secession Building

    The Secession Building is a manifesto with a roof, built in 1897–98 by artists who had walked out of the establishment.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  4. Austrian National Library
    05 45 min

    Austrian National Library

    The Austrian National Library's Prunksaal, the State Hall, is the Baroque core of the former imperial court library, built between 1723 and 1726 by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, son of the architect who designed the Karlskirche.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  5. MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
    06 2 hours

    MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

    The MAK was the first museum of its kind on the continent, and it was founded to improve manufacturing.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  6. Department of Planned Languages and Esperanto Museum
    07 45 min

    Department of Planned Languages and Esperanto Museum

    The Esperantomuseum, formally the Department of Planned Languages and Esperanto Museum, is a small collection inside the Austrian National Library devoted to constructed languages — Esperanto foremost, but also Volapük, Ido and dozens of smaller projects.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  7. Mozarthaus Vienna
    08 1 hr 30 min

    Mozarthaus Vienna

    Mozarthaus Vienna, at Domgasse 5 in the Innere Stadt, is the only one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Viennese residences still standing.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  8. Vienna Künstlerhaus
    09 1 hour

    Vienna Künstlerhaus

    The Kunstlerhaus is Vienna's oldest surviving purpose-built exhibition hall for the fine arts, standing on Karlsplatz next to the Musikverein.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  9. Winter Palace of Prince Eugene
    10 1 hour

    Winter Palace of Prince Eugene

    The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene (Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen) is a Baroque town palace at Himmelpfortgasse 8 in Vienna's first district, built between 1695 and 1724 as the city residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Habsburg field marshal…

    • Must see
    • Museum

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