Vienna

 Vienna

We were driven through the streets of Vienna by coach and had so many buildings pointed out that I can't remember them and none of the photos on a bright hot day taken through a window were worth keeping.

And once we were on foot it still wasn't easy to take photos as the streets are narrow getting a good perspective, the traffic busy and it was the last week of term and it seemed that every school in the country had a school trip to the capital and the streets were corded.

A view of the Opera House.

The Sacher Hotel, which invented the Sacher Torte which was on the menu the night before due to a special request from another passenger.

On the corner of the Sacher Hotel was another view of the opera house.

And we moved on to a square.

The National Library.

Part of the palace.

The inner courtyard of Die Spanisches Hofreitschule, the Spanish Riding Schools showing the stables on the ground floor that house 70 Lippizaner stallions.

A closers view with several horses heads looking out of their stables.

St Michaels in St Michaels Square.

 

The entrance to the Holberg Palace, the winter palace of the Habsbergs.

The house of the baker to the Habsburg. A pretty fancy building for just a baker.

An interesting merchants house.

The savings bank with a bee motif on the top front facade but the lower part of the building as obscured by renovation works.

A fabulous monument in the main Graben shopping street.

The streets were narrow and I couldn't get a good picture of the whole cathedral but this is the one completed spire.

A side on view of the west facade.

The date of construction picked out on the roof between the transept and the alter.

The unfinished spire.

It was a quick tour and took less than an hour and then we had some time to ourselves such as to visit the cathedral on the inside or one of the many museums but I hadn't planned anything so just wandered some of the back streets to look at the architecture.