Austria Bike Tour - Vienna (page 5)
Sightseeing in Vienna
- St. Stephen's Cathedral
- Schönbrunn Palace
- National Treasury
Welcome to the last page of our Austria Bike Tour.
This page shows a few of the wonderful sights found
in Vienna - a beautiful city. We stayed here three days
visiting museums, palaces and of course restaurants. We stayed
in Klosterneuberg a small town about ten miles west along the Danube. Each day we biked along the bike trail
right into downtown Vienna and biked to the many sights found in the city.
Thanks for visiting our site and hope you enjoyed it - we certainly did!
On arrival in Vienna we headed for an outdoor Cafe along the Ringstrasse
Typical Vienna street scene: horse drawn buggies, pedestrians and bicycles
The Hofburg was the winter residence of the Habsburg emporers built between 1275 and 1913 and contained 2,500 rooms
The Ringstrasse not only contained a loop roadway and dual trolley line but a separate bike and pedestrian paths that encircle the center of the city
This is one of the two tremendous crowns found at the Imperial Treasury. This one is the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1000 to 1206
St Stephen's Cathedral in the center of Vienna towers over the surrounding buildings. We climbed part way up the 450 foot tall south tower and toured the catacombs of bones of the dead stacked in neat piles.
View from St. Stephen's Cathedral Tower at 246 feet above the square. We had to climb 343 steps up a narrow circular staircase inside the tower.
On our last day in Vienna we biked to the Habsburgs summer residence - Schönbrunn Palace - built in 1692 to 1775. We visited 20 of the 1,441 rooms in the Palace.
Our last dinner together before Bob and Greg headed back to Munich via a "redeye" train trip.
The Gardens at Shönbrunn - the Winter Palace of the Hapsburgs from 1700 to 1918
Thanks for visiting - AUF WIEDERSEHEN
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