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w Naglergasse
This lane has some of MUSEUM AND STEPHANSDOM
QUARTER
TOWNHALL
the finest Baroque QUARTER
façades in
the city. HOFBURG
QUARTER
OPERA AND
8 Graben NASCHMARKT
The Spar-Casse Bank, with its gilt bee on Locator Map
N A G L E R G A S S E
the pediment, is just one of many fine See Street Finder maps 2 and 5
buildings on the pedestrianized Graben.
0 Kohlmarkt
This street has a number of
shops designed by Hans
Hollein, one of Austria’s
W A L L N E R S T R A S S E
finest architects.
M A R K T

K O H L A S S E G R A B E N

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E 9 . Pestsäule
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R Built after the plague of 1679, this
U is the most imposing of the
B
S Baroque plague columns.
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S 7 Dorotheergasse
S Lining this narrow lane are art
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R galleries and auction houses,
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S and the much-loved Café
R Hawelka (see pp60–63).
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R S 5 Stallburg
B A Once a royal residence, the Stallburg now
G houses the Spanish Riding School stables
R
E and the Lipizzaner Museum.
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S TA L L B U R G G A S S E
The Pallavicini Palace is
a late 18th-century
The Palffy Palace aristocrats’ palace,
Built in the 16th cen tury, strategically located
this was the venue for a opposite the Hofburg.
performance of Mozart’s
The Marriage of Figaro.

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