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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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Top things to see

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Historic monuments 0 Museums 3 Places of worship 0 Nature sites 0 Viewpoints 0 Food and drink 0 Markets and shopping 0 Entertainment 0 Nightlife 0 Family attractions 0 Art and culture 0 Activities 1

Typical visit duration

Up to 1 hour 701 1 to 2 hours 218 Half a day or more 4

Interests

History 3 Art 0 Museums 3 Nature 0 Sea and beach 0 Viewpoints 0

Kunsthistorisches Museum
01 3 hours
Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum is the Habsburg collection in a building designed to hold it, and it is the largest art museum in Austria.
- Must see
- Museum
Standing-room evening at the State Opera
02 3 hours
Standing-room evening at the State Opera

The Vienna State Opera keeps 435 places in the house where nobody sits down, and they are the reason a student in Vienna can see world-class opera more often than most people see a film.
- Must see
- Activity
Natural History Museum
03 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
Weltmuseum Wien
04 2 hr 30 min
Weltmuseum Wien

Weltmuseum Wien occupies the Neue Burg wing of the Hofburg on Heldenplatz and holds Vienna's global ethnographic collections, assembled from Habsburg holdings and expedition material going back to the museum's founding as the Museum für Völkerkunde in 1876.
- Must see
- Museum

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata · 2026-08-26