Vienna City Hall (Rathaus) The world really doesn't need another snapshot of the Rathaus - but here is one. The tower is 98m tall - at the express wish of the Kaiser so that it would be shorter than the tower of a nearby church - but then the politicians put a "Rathausmann" on top of the tower.
Classic Vienna The companion to yesterday's shot. A view over the first and third districts of Vienna. In the foreground, the Heldenplatz park with the Theseus "temple" (never a place of worship - just built to house a sculpture that is in the art history museum). In the middle the "Neue Burg" extension of the Hofburg palace ("new" because it was added to the 13th century palace in the 1870s) - the illuminated part mainly holds the National Library. Behind it is the roof of the State Opera, then the Karlskirche (St. Charles Church) and in the far back is the Belvedere Palace.
Vienna at night showing some of the traditional sights in the 1st district - St. Stephan's Cathedral, St. Paul's Church, Vienna's first 'skyscraper' from the 1900s. Taken from the 70m high rotating Skyliner, through the plexiglass windows, ISO 2500.
