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THREE GUIDED WALKS

Vienna is a comparatively small city, with The former village’s quiet streets are lined
most main attractions within walking with an interesting mix of Biedermeier and
distance of each other. All six sightseeing Jugendstil villas. Towards the end of the walk
areas in this guide have a suggested short is Schönbrunn Palace Park, with an area of
walk marked on a Street-by-Street map. Yet woodland and the more formally planted
the city’s suburbs are also worth exploring Botanical Garden. The third walk takes you
on foot. The follow ing guided walks take to the old wine village of Grinzing, with its
you through some of the best walking areas many Heurigen. The route goes through
in and around the city, all easily acces sible Heiligenstadt, where there are a number
by public transport. The first walk meanders of buildings by well-known 20th-century
through the city itself. Starting in the architects. In addition to the walks that
Stadtpark, it continues past the Karlskirche are suggested on these pages, there are
to the elegant Wagner Apartments and the signposted routes through the Vienna Woods
colourful Naschmarkt on the Linke Wienzeile. and the Prater, marked Stadtwanderwege.
Hietzing, on the western edge of the grounds For details of these, visit or contact the
of Schönbrunn Palace, is our second walk. Vienna Tourist Board offices (see p238).

A Two-Hour Walk to
Grinzing (see pp188–9)

The Fillgrader Steps on the City Walk

Heiligenstädter Park, on the way to Grinzing
A Two-Hour City Walk
A 90-Minute Walk Around (see pp184–5)
Hietzing (see pp186–7)

Key 0 kilometres 2
Walk route 0 miles 1

The Strauss Monument, the most photographed sight in Vienna

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