Your guide to the very best that Vienna has to offer, whatever you are looking for, whether you are travelling first class or on a limited budget, want to enjoy a night at the opera or dine on the finest schnitzel & strudel. Dozens of top 10 lists
- from festivals & markets to beer halls & bars
- provide the insider knowledge you need.

Includes:: detailed maps.



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Berlitz Pocket Guide Vienna combines snappy text with full-colour photography to highlight the very best that this elegant city has to offer. The Where To Go chapter details all the key sights that you will not want to miss; from the historic grandeur of the Hofburg, to the vibrant Museums Quartier & the regal Schonbrunn Palace. The What to Do chapter explores Vienna's world-class music & opera scene & opportunities for shopping, whilst the Eating Out chapter investigates the local cuisine & provides a list of recommended restaurants for you to try. Top 10 Attractions & A Perfect Day itinerary present inspiration for experiencing the very best of one of the most artistic & cultural cities in Europe. Background information on the turbulent history of the city & the character of its people helps you really understand the culture you have come to experience. Clear & detailed maps plot all the major sights, & the Travel Tips section offers practical advice on how to get there & where to stay. ...

At the mention of Vienna, many visitors think of Sachertorte, romantic open carriage trips & an evening inone of local wine taverns. But the old imperial city has much more to offer
- The Essence of Culture: Vienna presents a comprehensive, richly illustrated view of the art treasures to be found in the Danube metropolis. The main focus is on the baroque era with its magnificent church buildings & palaces including the Hofburg, Schonbrunn & Belvedere; historicism with its architectural highlights on the new Ringstrasse; & Viennese art nouveau including artists Gustav Klimt & Oskar Kokoschka, the Wiener Werkstatte und Sezession. Well-founded essays on the beginnings of the history of art in Vienna & on the state of contemporary Viennese art round off the book.
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Vienna Baedeker is divided into four main categories
- background, practicalities, tours & A-Z of sites. The guide is introduced
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Vienna Baedeker is divided into four main categories
- background, practicalities, tours & A-Z of sites. The guide is introduced
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Vienna in the Cities of the Imagination guide series; providing an in-depth cultural & historical exploration of some of the great city landscapes of the world. Presented as a cultural & literary guide, each title in the series explores the history of the city, providing an overview of the city’s development from its earliest roots to the modern day. Particular emphasis is placed on the literary, poetic, architectural, cultural & historical elements that make up the city & each title is written & researched by an academic expert. An Epilogue offers thoughts on the future of the city, suggested further reading & indices of literary & historical names & famous places & attractions. ...

Te Neues Art, Architecture & Design guide to Vienna. About this series: Te Neues` line of pocket guides on Art, Architecture, & Design (AAD for short) give an unparalleled insider overview of major sights as well as highlighting lesser-known gems. A handy reference, these slim volumes are chock-full of museums, galleries, as well as favorite hipster hangouts from hotels & restaurants to bars & shops. Entries include the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Helmut Newton Foundation, & many more. The directory listings are filled with detailed information & a city plan for each title. ...

Vienna & Vienna’s Woods in the Rother Walking Guides, is a walking guide to a mix of 50 easy strolls, city walks & well-known & impressive walks, in Vienna & the surrounding areas including north of the Danube & the Vienna’s Woods. All walks are presented with a wealth of information, offering grade of difficulty, a description of the route, a small walking map inset showing stages, height differences & walking times, & when available, a photograph. The topographic maps featured in the pocket guide vary in scale of 1:12, 500 & 1:125, 000. An additional overview map at the back of the book helps locate the walks. All walks are easily accessible by public transport & pass at least one inn or a Heuriger (wine tavern). They include 7 circular sight-seeing routes to guide you through the major attractions of Vienna, three around-the city hiking trails & two crossing the entire way through the city; thirty walk in the Vienna Woods & the surrounding areas, & 10 in the north of the Danube area. ...

Vienna, an original antique map by S.D.U.K., published in London, 1844. Steel plate, uncoloured. Map size 38 x 32 cm, mounted 53 x 47.5 cm.A detailed map of Vienna published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The Society was founded by John, Earl Russell, & Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor of England in 1827. The Society's main purpose was to encourage universal literacy by publishing numbers of books of good quality that would be affordable to all. These town plans were published in perhaps the grandest of the Society's publications
- their atlas entitled Maps Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge, first issued by Baldwin & Cradock, & then re-issued by other publishers, including Chapman & Hall & latterly Edward Stanford. Along the bottom of the map the city's principal buildings are depicted. The map was engraved by J. Henshall after W.B. Clarke. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford
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Pepin Letter Writing Sets come in carefully designed luxury boxes. Each box contains 10 sheets of 4 different designs (printed ...