The best places to visit in Vienna, Austria -> Destinations

   Belvedere is in the middle of a splendid park. The palace was built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, by JL von Hildebrandt, a well-known architect of the Baroque period. Belvedere means a place where you can see the beauty and the Belvedere Palace offers a great view of the old city in its gardens.      Although his parents were born in Italy, Prince Eugene was French and knew very well the Versailles Castle. Being exiled by Louis XIV, Jo...

    For over 600 years, the Hofburg was the residence of the Austrian sovereigns. Over time, was developed reaching one of the most important centers of European history. Here have led Habsburgs since XIII century, first as rulers of the Austrian provinces, since 1452 the Holy Roman emperors, and finally as emperors of Austria from 1806 until the end of monarchy in 1918.      Originally a stronghold of the XIII century, the Hofburg was exten...

   Schönbrunn Palace Versailles was to be the Austrian Empire but in the year 1695 when Fischer von Erlach designed the palace, raising its costs were too high. Thus, the palace was originally conceived more as a summer residence of the Habsburgs, but since Maria Theresa (1717-1780) and began the golden age of the Habsburgs, choosing it as the residence of Schönbrunn Palace.      Until 1749 the interiors were restored, the gallerie...

   Art History Museum (Kunsthistorisches Museum), hosted by a building on the Ring Boulevard which resembles a palace is one of the most important museums of art and decorative art in the world. The building is located is itself a tourist attraction.      The museum is visited by over 600,000 people annually. The museum was built, like other museums in Vienna to house the huge collection of artifacts of the Habsburgs. Kunsthistorisches Museu...

   Albertina is a museum of Vienna's first district. It hosts one of the largest and most important collections of graphic art in the world with nearly 65,000 drawings and one million prints old but modern graphics works.      Albertina Museum was founded by one of the last existing part of the fortifications of Vienna, the building was later taken over by the Duke Albert. Initially he used it as a residence and later brought his art and his...