Other must-visit attractions in Vienna include: Leopold Museum: The Leopold Museum houses a collection of Viennese art from ...

TO TAKE DOWN VIENNA'S WALLS. Share full article. Oct. 21, 1888. ... The Viennese are in great delight at the prospect of seeing the Linienwalle or boundary walls of the city demolished.

By 1600 the Holy Roman Empire was firmly in the grip of the Habsburgs, ruling from the Hofburg palace within Vienna's city walls. The empire had the largest population in Europe; it was bigger ...

Vienna may be 6,000 kilometres from India — but walk its streets and you’ll feel like you’ve stepped inside a painting.

In 1857, Emperor Franz Joseph ordered the construction of a boulevard around Vienna’s city center. Down came the historic city walls, and the Ringstrasse (or Vienna Ring Road) took its place ...

Surrounding the inner city, roughly where the medieval walls once stood, is the 19th-century Ringstrasse, a boulevard lined with museums, parks, the iconic Opera House, and the Parliament Building.

How to spend your weekend Day one: morning. Kick off bright and early with a nose around the baroque streets of the Innere Stadt, Vienna’s historic heart, as the city wakes up.