Vienna — Sights
A city where one coffee buys you the whole afternoon.
- Schönbrunn Palace & Gloriette — Walk the imperial rooms, then look back from the Gloriette hill
- Belvedere Palace (Klimt's The Kiss) — The Baroque palace where Klimt's The Kiss hangs
- St. Stephen's Cathedral — Tiled-roof cathedral with a 343-step tower climb
- Hofburg & Sisi Museum — The Habsburg winter palace: Sisi's things and the imperial rooms
- Kunsthistorisches Museum — Bruegel's room and a café under the dome
- Vienna State Opera (tour & standing room) — A 40-minute tour by day, cheap standing room by night
- Albertina — Monet to Picasso, then the Opera view from the terrace
- Naschmarkt — Graze past cheese, olives and kebabs, then sit down
- Prater & Giant Ferris Wheel — The Before Sunrise wheel: a red wooden cabin over Vienna
- Hundertwasserhaus — A wonky, colourful apartment block with trees on top
- Karlskirche — Green dome in the pond; Vivaldi's Four Seasons at night
- MuseumsQuartier & Leopold Museum — The biggest Schiele collection, then loungers in the courtyard
- Austrian National Library State Hall — An 80-metre Baroque hall of leather books under a frescoed dome
- Classical concert at the Musikverein Golden Hall — A Mozart evening in the New Year's Concert hall
- Hallstatt day trip — The postcard lake village, as a day tour from Vienna
- Secession Building (Beethoven Frieze) — Klimt's Beethoven Frieze under the golden cabbage dome
- Natural History Museum Vienna — Meet the Venus of Willendorf in a palace-sized hall
- Zentralfriedhof (Honorary Graves) — Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Falco, all in one neighbourhood
- Haus der Musik — A sound museum where you play, mix and conduct
- Spanish Riding School — White Lipizzaners dancing through a Baroque hall
- Kapuzinergruft (Imperial Crypt) — Where the Habsburg emperors lie in the crypt
- Wien Museum Karlsplatz — Vienna's story from prehistory on, free to walk
- Mozarthaus Vienna — Mozart's one surviving Vienna flat, where Figaro was born
- Kahlenberg — Bus 38A up, city view, then a Heuriger evening
- Technisches Museum Wien — Trains, planes and inventions, good with kids