A favorite place while I was a student. Even then the stairs into the cellars always seemed longer when coming back upstairs. Now they are steep both ways.
Guarding the main entrance to the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. That entrance is now for the National Library.
Looking across the Neue Donau to the 'DonauCity' residences and technical businesses, and in the background part of the UN's Vienna International Centre is still visible. And of course the Danube Tower in the background. All these building are built on what was flood plain for the Danube and, after the 2nd World War, the main rubble disposal site for Vienna. The first complex built there, the VIC with its 28 floors, is now dwarfed by the DC Tower with over 60 floors.
