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Street-by-Street: Opernring 2 Hotel Sacher MUSEUM HOFBURG
AND
QUARTER
The famous Sacher- TOWNHALL
QUARTER
torte (see p206)
Between the Opera House and the Karlskirche, 3 . Academy originated here.
two of the great landmarks of Vienna, lies of Fine Arts
This Italianate
an area that typifies the varied culture of the building is home G O E T H E G A S S E NASCHMARKT
OPERA AND
city. Here visitors can find an 18th-century to one of the best To Albertina-
theatre, a 19th-century art academy, and collections of Old platz
the Secession Building. Mixed in with these Masters in Vienna.
cultural monuments are emblems of the Locator Map
Viennese devotion to good living: the Hotel The Goethe Statue See Street Finder maps 3, 4 and 5
Sacher, as sumptuous today as it was a was designed by
century ago; the Café Museum (see p60), Edmund Hellmer
still as popular as it was in the 1900s; and in 1890.
the hurly-burly of the colourful Naschmarkt,
where you can buy every thing from oysters
and exotic fruits to second-hand clothes.
The Schiller O P E R N R I N G E
Statue dominates S
the park in front A S
of the Academy G
of Fine Arts. N To Kärntner
R
E Strasse
P
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1 . State Opera House
E L I S A B E T H S T R A S S
E L I S A B E T H S T R A S S E E
This stately building, opened on
this site in 1869, is still the hub of
4 . Secession Building Vienna’s glorious cultural life.
This delightful structure, built in 1898 as a showroom S C H I L L E R P L A T Z
for the Secession artists, houses the Beethoven Frieze
by Gustav Klimt (see p57).
5 Theater an der Wien S E N I B E L U N G E N G A S S
N I B E L U N G E N G A S S E E
Today this 18th-century theatre is used A S
as an opera house. It has been G
the venue for many premieres, T
among them Beethoven’s Fidelio. A R
K
F R I E D R I C H S T R A S S E E
A
M F R I E D R I C H S T R A S S
The Café Museum, built in 1899, has served many of
Vienna’s artistic and literary figures, including Gustav Klimt,
Egon Schiele, Joseph Roth and Robert Musil.

The Mark Anthony Statue (1899), alongside the
Secession Building, is a decadent bronze 0 metres
G E T R E I D E M A R K T
statue by Arthur Strasser. 50
0 yards 50
L I N K E W I E N Z E I L E Key
M I L L Ö C K
E Suggested route
6 Naschmarkt
This market sells everything from fresh R G A S S E
farm produce to bric-a-brac. It is liveliest
on Saturday mornings.

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