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District guide · Vienna
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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 Hofburg is not a palace but a district of palaces, and the Austrian president works in it.
The Imperial Crypt is where the Habsburgs are buried, and it is under an ordinary friary church on a shopping street.
The Vienna State Opera was hated when it opened and it killed both its architects.
The Burgtheater is Austria's national theatre and one of the most important German-language stages in the world.
The Musikverein holds the best-sounding concert hall in the world, and it happened partly by accident.
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 Secession Building is a manifesto with a roof, built in 1897–98 by artists who had walked out of the establishment.
Vienna demolished its city walls and built a 5.3 km boulevard on the empty ring of ground, then lined it with every public building the nineteenth century thought a capital needed.
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.
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