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Street-by-Street: Karlsplatz This Ringstrasse-style OPERA AND
3 Musikverein
This part of the city became ripe for development 4 . Karlsplatz Pavilions concert hall (see p150), NASCH-
MARKT
home of the Vienna
once the threat of Turkish invasion had These pavilions were Philharmonic
built as part of the
receded for good in 1683 (see pp28–9). underground Orchestra, is BELVEDERE QUARTER
The Ressel Park, in front of the Karlskirche, system of 1899. renowned for its
gives an unobstructed superb acoustics.
view of this grandiose
church, built on the Locator Map
orders of Karl VI. The See Street Finder maps 4 and 6
park itself has a variety
of cultural institutions, 2 . Wien Museum Karlsplatz
notably the Wien This museum chronicles Vienna’s
Museum Karlsplatz S E history from Neolithic times
and, across the road, S to the present, with weapons,
the Musikverein. R A paintings and reconstructed
T rooms from each period.
Underpass S
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Ressel Park café K A R L S P L A T Z
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M 1 . Karlskirche
M A T T I E L L I S T R A S S E people during the
Promised to the
1713 plague, this
is Vienna’s finest
The Technical University with its Baroque church.
Neo-Classical façade (1816) fronts onto T E C H N I K E R S T R
Ressel Park, which contains busts and Ressel French Embassy
G U S S H A U S S T R A S S
statues of famous 19th-century Austrian Statue
scientists and engineers. G U S S H A U S S T R A S S E E The Art Nouveau French Embassy
Built in 1904–12 by the French
architect Georges Chédanne,
the Embassy is typical of
French Art Nouveau,
resembling houses along
Key
Rue Victor Hugo in Paris.
Suggested route Unaccustomed to this foreign
style, some thought the
0 metres 50
building was oriental, giving
0 yards 50 rise to a rumour that its plans
had been mixed up with
Henry Moore’s Hill Arches those of the French Embassy
were presented to Vienna by in Istanbul. Art Nouveau façade of the French Embassy
the artist himself in 1978.

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