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.
University of Vienna Courtyard The companion shot to yesterday's arcade shot. There are several events this year to celebrate the university's 650th anniversary. To Terry's comment yesterday about not honoring women faculty: The first woman allowed to teach at the university was Elise Richter who taught in the 1920s and 30s as an 'extra-ordinary professor' but was never granted tenure. As a Jew, she was fired in 1938, deported to Theriesenstadt in 1942 and killed. Not all the history here is savory. Today, still only about 10% of the faculty is female.
