Vienna - brief description and tourist attractions

Vienna - tourist attractions

	Schönbrunn Palace
	St. Charles's Church in Vienna	The St. Charles's Church (German: Karlskirche) is a church situated on the south side of Karlsplatz, Vienna. It is located on the edge of the 1st district, 200 metres outside the Ringstraße. It is one of the most outstanding baroque church structures, and boasts a dome in the form of an elongated el...
	Spittelau Waste Incinerator Plant	Spittelau Waste Incinerator Plant is a thermal plant for waste treatment in the city of Vienna, which was completed in 1971. It was redesigned by the great architect and artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser after it was destroyed by fire in 1987. Located in the northern part of the city near a Danub...
	Kunsthalle Wien	The Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna is a non-collecting art centre which organizes and hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. It opened in 1992, and was originally located on Karlsplatz, in a container-shaped building designed as a temporary site by the Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz. In ...
	Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna	The Sigmund Freud Museum is located in Freud's former practice and apartment in Vienna, and covers his life story and the history of psychoanalysis. This house in the Alsergrund district, at Berggasse 19, was newly built when Freud moved here in 1891. In 1938 Freud was forced to leave German-annexe...
	Naschmarkt	The Naschmarkt is Vienna 's most popular market. Located at the Wienzeile over the Wien River it is about 1,5 kilometers long. The Naschmarkt has existed since the 16th century when mainly milk bottles were sold (As Milk Bottles were made out of Ash (Wood from an Ash-Tree), "Asch" (English for "Ash...
	Secession hall in Viena	The Secession building (German: Wiener Secessionsgebäude) is an exhibition hall built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich as an architectural manifesto for the Vienna Secession, located in Vienna, Austria. Secession refers to the seceding of a group of rebel artists from the long-established fine art i...
	Wurstelprater	The Wurstelprater is an amusement park and section of the Wiener Prater, a park located in the second district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt. This institution dates back to the time of the Austro-Hungarian empire, when Emperor Josef II made the Prater (which has been serving as Imperial hunting ground un...
	Wiener Riesenrad	The Wiener Riesenrad (German for "Viennese giant wheel"), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria 's capital Vienna. It is now one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises...
	Prater	The Wiener Prater is a large public park in Vienna's 2nd district (Leopoldstadt). The Wurstelprater amusement park, often simply called "Prater", stands in one corner of the Wiener Prater and includes the Wiener Riesenrad. The area that makes up the modern Prater was first mentioned in 1162, when E...