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Rathaus in Vienna | The Rathaus is a building in Vienna which serves as the seat both of the mayor and city council of the city of Vienna. The town hall also serves, in personal union, as Governor and Assembly (Landtag) of the State of Vienna, a state with the Austrian federal system. The Rathaus was designed by Friedr... |
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Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station | Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station is a former station of the Viennese Stadtbahn. The buildings above ground on Karlsplatz are a well-known example of Jugendstil architecture. These buildings were included in The Vienna Secession, as they followed many of the artistic styles of that movement. They were de... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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