Most people visit
Vienna
with a vivid image of the city in their minds: a monumental vision of Habsburg palaces, trotting white horses, old ladies in fur coats and mountains of fat cream cakes. And they're unlikely to be disappointed, for the city positively feeds off imperial nostalgia - High Baroque churches and aristocratic mansions pepper the Innere Stadt, monumental projects from the late nineteenth century line the Ringstrasse, and postcards of the Emperor Franz-Josef and his beautiful wife Elisabeth still sell by the sackful. Just as compelling as the old Habsburg stand-bys are the wonderful Jugendstil and early Modernist buildings, products of the era of Freud, Klimt, Schiele, Mahler and Schönberg, when the city's famous coffeehouses were filled with intellectuals from every corner of the empire. Without doubt, this was Vienna's golden age, after which all has been decline: with the end of the empire in 1918, the city was reduced from a metropolis of over two million, capital of a vast empire of fifty million, to one of barely more than 1.5 million and federal capital of a small country of just eight million souls. More Vienna information...
IN THE CITY CENTER / VIENNA The Style Hotel Vienna is a boutique property in the fashion and retail district of Vienna, 400 metres from City Hall and 700 metres from the Royal Palace.
ON THE RING/CITY CENTER / VIENNA The Hotel de France is a grand corner hotel, built in 1872 and situated in the centre of Vienna, 500 meters from the Kinsky Palace and Sigmund Freud Museum.
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