| My hotel in Vienna for 5 nights, Hotel Kummer,
convenient walking distance to the old town and the Danube canal: |
Looking down the staircase in Hotel Kummer: |
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| The All Austria 50 km Marathon, with 20,000 runners,
ran right past my hotel! |
It took over 2 hours for all the runners to pass: |
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| Looking down the street my hotel was on, Maria Hilfer Strasse: |
Sex World is right nextdoor to the Franz Schubert Konservatorium! |
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| A small church down the street from the hotel. They hold a weekly
Floh Markt (flea market) in the front courtyard. |
The church has a very nice organ, which I didn't hear: |
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| Peterskirche (St. Peter's church): |
The Vienna Opera House, with the Ringstrasse tram in front: |
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| The famed Sacher Hotel and Cafe (where Sacher-Torten originated): |
Michaelerplatz, at the side of the Hofburg palace: |
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| The Spanische Reitschule (Spanish Riding School)
in the Hofburg, where the Lipizzaners are engaged in their morning exercises: |
My entrance ticket for the Spanish Riding School exercises: |
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| Demel's is a noted café and konditorei (confectionery): |
I had lunch in Demel's in this room (there are many dining rooms): |
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| I always enjoy food displays in other countries: |
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| The Graben (ditch) was once the southern ditch
protecting the Roman camp at Vindobona. It is now the fashionable
heart of Vienna: |
Nearly every old town has a pestsäule (plague monument)
celebrating the end of the bubonic plague in the 17th century: |
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| Vienna's cathedral, Stephansdom. Note reflections of
the south spire in the windows of the modern Haas Haus at the left: |
Stephansdom: |
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| The nave of Stephansdom: |
Stephansdom's organ: |
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| My fellow tourists, Judy and Ron Borcherding
of San Jose, gave me permission to use this photo they took of our tour
group in the courtyard of the Holy Cross Monastery in the Wienerwald
(the Vienna Woods): |
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| I'm standing in the courtyard of Holy Cross Monastery: |
The chapel at Holy Cross Monastery: |
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| I neglected to take my camera on the Riesenrad
(Vienna's "big wheel" featured in the 1949 movie The Third Man with
Orson Welles playing Harry Lime), but luckily, Rosanne Short and the
Borcherdings took these: |
Thanks to Rosanne Short |
Thanks to Ron and Judy Borcherding |
| My ticket for the Riesenrad: |
Alfred Hrdlicka's memorial sculpture in Albertinaplatz,
recalling the evils of war and Fascism during Austria's anschluss
(annexation) by Nazi Germany: |
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