The imperial capital of the Habsburgs — a city of grand palaces, world-class museums, coffee houses that double as living rooms, and a musical heritage running from Mozart to Mahler. Vienna consistently ranks among the world's most liveable cities, and its historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Vienna's great art history museum — one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings on earth, housed in a palatial 19th-century building built to hold it.
Belvedere (Upper Belvedere)
Prince Eugene's Baroque summer palace, now home to Gustav Klimt's The Kiss and the world's largest Klimt collection, with gardens sweeping down toward the Vienna skyline.
Schönbrunn Palace
The Habsburgs' vast Baroque summer palace — 1,441 rooms, gardens stretching to the Gloriette hilltop monument, and the residence where Maria Theresa raised 16 children and ran an empire.
Musikverein
Home of the Vienna Philharmonic and the world-famous New Year's Concert — a Golden Hall ranked among the best-sounding concert halls anywhere.
Austrian National Library — Prunksaal (State Hall)
One of the most beautiful libraries in the world — an 80-metre Baroque hall of gilded shelving, marble statues and a ceiling fresco, built to hold 200,000 historic volumes.
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Vienna's Natural History Museum — dinosaur skeletons, meteorites and the 29,500-year-old Venus of Willendorf, in a palace built as a mirror image of the art museum across the square.
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