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If you're a history or architecture enthusiast, the enormous Hofburg Palace will knock your socks off. Inspect out the Austrian National Library and its four museums and the Spanish Riding School which is house to the famous Lipizzan horses.

There are the Ringstraße (Ringstrassa or Ring Street) twin museums commissioned by the Emperor in order to shelter the formidable art collection of the Habsburg dynasty.

The very first is the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum of Art History, is vienna attractions one of the wealthiest and massive museums of art on the planet. It houses numerous 18th century paintings by the old masters, collections of Renaissance and Baroque art, and exceptional Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities collections.

The second is the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, the Museum of Natural History of Vienna, another of the most crucial and enormous museums of Europe, it is really magnificent.

Take care with the admission rates at the Hofburg and museums area complex because striking a lot of locations will include up. However invest calm time in each significant museum and observe a few of the treasures of our human existence.

For something totally free, the Burggarten and Volksgarten (parks) on the facilities are truly nice locations to relax from all of your sightseeing.

The Museumsquartier, Museum Quarter, is an area of the city that is one of my favorites. There you will discover the MUMOK and Kunsthalle Wien (for contemporary art), Leopold Museum (for Austrian art), and Architekturzentrum Wien (for architecture and metropolitan design). The Museum of Applied Arts (the MAK) is likewise pretty cool to see, and it's totally free on Tuesday evenings!

The Schönbrunn Palace is far from the city center, however it's most definitely worth the trip out there. It's rather like Versailles, a large palace with large gardens behind it. Though student tickets are in between vienna points of interest EUR10 and EUR15 ($13-$19, ₤ 8-12), you can enter into the garden free of charge and spend rather a very long time there-it's a fantastic place for a picnic, to jog, or to checking out a book surrounded by nature.

Tiergarten Schonbrunn, is the world's earliest zoo and it is near Schönbrunn Palace.

At the Platform, a palace complex closer to the city centre, you can go to a free park (in the official French manner) in between the Upper and Lower Platform palaces and view the amazing city's horizon. There you can also see the Platform museum.

The Freud Museum in Alsergrund was the home of Sigmund Freud and costs EUR5.50 ($7, ₤ 4.50) a ticket. For this you get to discover all about the psychologist's life and work. However, his famous couch isn't there. It's in London. What may be more interesting are the many truly hip cafés and restaurants because area that attract students from the nearby university.

Stephansdom, St. Stephen's Cathedral, in Stephenplatz in the City Centre remains in the Gothic and Romanesque styles and provides performances, trips of the church and catacombs, and spectacular views of the city from the top of the South tower-it is certainly worth climbing up only 343 actions.

Karlskirche, St. Charles's Church, in Karlplatz is in the Baroque style and has concerts. (I saw Mozart's Requiem there) and tours; rather of walking up actions, nevertheless, you can take a raise to the observation deck on the dome to see Vienna. Take advantage of Karlsplatz while you're there-the park is beautiful and the surrounding location has a lot of other museums (like the Clock Museum) and good dining establishments and cafés.