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Street-by-Street: Imperial Vienna w Naglergasse
This lane has some of MUSEUM AND STEPHANSDOM
TOWNHALL
QUARTER
The streets around the Hofburg are no longer filled with the the finest Baroque QUARTER
carriages of the nobility. Most of the palaces have become façades in HOFBURG
the city.
offices, embassies or apartments. Yet this district remains QUARTER
the most fashionable in Vienna, crammed with elegant
shops, art galleries and coffee houses, which offer N A G L E R G A S S E
enjoyable interludes between visits to the many H A A R H O F OPERA AND
museums and churches in the area. 8 Graben NASCHMARKT
The Spar-Casse Bank, with its gilt bee on
N A G L E R G A S S E
the pediment, is just one of many fine Locator Map
e Herrengasse buildings on the pedestrianized Graben. See Street Finder maps 2 and 5
This was a prime
site for the palaces
of the nobility. W A L L N E R S T R A S S E 0 Kohlmarkt
This street has a number of
shops designed by Hans
Herrengasse U-Bahn Hollein, one of Austria’s
W A L L N E R S T R A S S E
finest architects.
q Demel Konditorei
M A R K T
This Café-Konditorei offers
delightful decor and H M A R K T
exquisite pastries. E R
3 Grosses und Kleines R E N G R A B E N
Michaelerhaus G A E
K O H L
r Mollard-Clary Palace Joseph Haydn (see p40) once S K O H L S S
This mansion, built at the end of lived in rooms overlooking the S E A
the 17th century, has a façade handsome courtyard of the R G
designed by J L Hildebrandt. Grosses Michaelerhaus. E 9 . Pestsäule
R G Built after the plague of 1679, this
U is the most imposing of the
B
S Baroque plague columns.
B
A
1 Michaelerplatz H
M I C H A E L
Roman remains E S E 7 Dorotheergasse
have been R P S Lining this narrow lane are art
excavated L R A galleries and auction houses,
here. A T S T and the much-loved Café
R Hawelka (see pp60–63).
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2 . Looshaus Ä U S E
Built in 1912, this unadorned design R S 5 Stallburg
outraged the conservative sensibilities B G A Once a royal residence, the Stallburg now
of the ornament-loving Archduke Franz R houses the Spanish Riding School stables
Ferdinand (see p168). E E and the Lipizzaner Museum.
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4 . Michaelerkirche
The crypt of this church contains
well-preserved corpses from the
late 18th century.
Key The Pallavicini Palace is
a late 18th-century
Suggested route The Palffy Palace aristocrats’ palace,
Built in the 16th cen tury, strategically located
0 metres 50 6 Josefsplatz this was the venue for a opposite the Hofburg.
An equestrian statue of Joseph II stands performance of Mozart’s
0 yards 50
at the centre of this elegant square. The Marriage of Figaro.
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