Innere Stadt (District 1)

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Innere Stadt and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The Secession & Klimt's Frieze12 min walk1.0 km
• Karlskirche13 min walk1.1 km
• The MuseumsQuartier15 min walk1.2 km
• The Naschmarkt15 min walk1.3 km
• Spittelberg's lanes17 min walk1.4 km
• Hundertwasserhaus18 min walk1.5 km
• The Prater & the Riesenrad23 min walk1.9 km
• The Belvedere (Klimt's The Kiss)23 min walk1.9 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 1.St Stephen's Cathedral — The soaring Gothic cathedral at the dead centre of the city, its roof a dazzle of coloured tiles. Climb the south tower's 343 steps or take the lift to the north for the rooftop view, and step inside the cool, vast nave. The heart of Vienna.
• 2.Schönbrunn Palace & gardens — The Habsburgs' summer palace — 1,400 rooms of imperial excess, and vast baroque gardens climbing to the Gloriette folly with a view back over the whole city. Do the state rooms, then lose an afternoon in the free grounds and the old zoo.
• 3.The Hofburg & the Sisi Museum — The Habsburgs' winter palace, a whole quarter of the city — the imperial apartments and the Sisi Museum, the Spanish Riding School's white horses, the treasury of crowns and jewels. Six centuries of empire, all in one vast complex.
• 5.A Viennese coffee house — A UNESCO-listed institution — order a melange and a slice of Sachertorte or apfelstrudel, take the newspaper on its wooden holder, and stay as long as you like. Café Central, Sacher, Hawelka: pick a grand old one and do nothing beautifully.
• 6.The State Opera — One of the great opera houses of the world, and gloriously democratic — standing-room tickets go for a few euros on the night, so anyone can hear world-class opera under the chandeliers. Dress up, or just take the tour by day.
• 7.The Ringstrasse — The grand boulevard that replaced the old city walls, ringed with monumental buildings — the Parliament, City Hall, the museums and the university, one after another. Ride tram 1 or 2 around it, or walk it; a lesson in imperial ambition.