Vienna Travel Guide

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Restaurant Limón – Mediterranes Rooftop Restaurant & Bar in Wien

The stunning rooftop restaurant on the roof of the Hotel Grand Ferdinand Vienna offers some of the most beautiful sunset views over St. Stephen’s Cathedral and the Vinna skyline beyond.

The inside of the restautant also offers a stunning aesthetic and feels like stepping back in time to a Gatsby-era restaurant. I’d recommend a reservation, especially around sunset!

Das LOFT Sky Bar

If you’re willing to venture a bit, . Das LOFT Sky Bar is absolutely stunning and has some of the most unreal rooftop views. The interior is also insanely beautiful.

Best Things to do in Vienna

Vienna Opera House

The stunning Vienna Opera House is a can’t miss experience, but the cost to see an opera or ballet can be super high! If you’d like to visit, but don’t want to spend tons of money you can try to buy standing room only spots. The day of starting at 10AM they release these tickets online. They sell out quickly, so check right at 10!

Experience Viennese Cafe Culture at Some of the Cities Most Stunning Cafes

Viennese Cafe Culture is something you must experience! Find one of the cities most stunning, lavish cafes and purchase an (admittedly expensive) coffee and some streudel, and enjoy a relaxed few hours in one of these historic spots.

Café Central is the most famous and well known, but some other good options are Cafe Mozart & Cafe Konditorei. Also the cafe inside of the Kunsthistorisches – Art History Museum is one of the most stunning in Vienna, you’ll need to visit the museum to visit the cafe!

Walking Tour of  Innere Stadt

Vienna’s Innere Stadt (or Inner District) is the main tourist area of Vienna. It’s also called District 1. Many of the highlights you’ll want to see are in this area and can be walked to from one another!

• St. Stephen’s Cathedral
• Column of Pest
• Rathausplatz
• Vienna State Opera
• Maria-Theresien-Platz
• Hofburg Palace + Burggarten & Volksgarten

Visit Vienna’s Palaces

Vienna is home to several stunning palaces. Depending on how much time you have you can visit the 3 most famous. If you’re short on time and can only visit one Schönbrunn is rhe most stunning, followed by Belvedere, but Hofburg is the most conveniently located!

Hofburg

The easiest to visit as it’s right in the Innere Stadt. To go inside you’ll need to do a guided tour, but you can explore the outside and the gardens without a tour (which would be my recommendation) If you do want to visit inside purchase tickets in advance!

Belvedere

Belvedere is worth visiting just to admire the grounds and the outside (neither of which require a ticket) If you want to visit the museum inside you’ll need to buy a ticket. I liked this guided tour.

Schönbrunn 

Potentially the most stuning of the 3, but the farther from the main District 1 area of Vienna, so you’ll need to take public transport or a taxi.

You can visit certain areas of the outside for free, but to see the more impressive parts of the gardens and the inside of the palace. This guided tour brings you through both.

Kunsthistorisches – Art History Museum

How Many Days to Spend in Vienna

2-3 Days

Vienna is fairly large and there is a lot to see, you can easily spend 3 full days, especially if you’d like to visit a museum and the inside of 2 or 3 of the main palaces. With two busy days you could see the highlights and then explore other areas of Vienna. I’d personally prefer to spend shorter time in Vienna and more in the stunning mountain towns of Salzburg, Innsbruck & Hallstatt, but it depends on what you’re looking for!