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Along the Ring

7 stops, from Vienna State Opera to Votivkirche.

Distance
3.8 km
Walking
50 min on foot
Stops
7
Vienna State Opera1Hofburg2Kunsthistorisches Museum3Austrian Parliament Building4Vienna City Hall5Burgtheater6Votivkirche7
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Stops

  1. Vienna State Opera

    The Vienna State Opera is an opera house and opera company located in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, and designs by Josef Hlávka.

    720 m to the next stop

  2. Hofburg

    The Hofburg is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. Located in the center of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century by Ottokar II of Bohemia and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn Palace was the summer residence.

    470 m to the next stop

  3. Kunsthistorisches Museum

    The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building.

    700 m to the next stop

  4. Austrian Parliament Building

    The Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna is the meeting place of the two houses of the Austrian Parliament. The building is located on the Ringstraße in the first district, Innere Stadt, near Hofburg Palace and the Palace of Justice. It was built to house the two chambers of the Imperial Council, the bicameral legislature of the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

    430 m to the next stop

  5. Vienna City Hall

    The Vienna City Hall is the town hall of Vienna, Austria, located in the Innere Stadt on the Rathausplatz, off the Ringstrasse. The Gothic Revival building was designed by Friedrich von Schmidt and constructed between 1872 and 1883. It houses the offices of the Mayor of Vienna, as well as the city and state government.

    630 m to the next stop

  6. Burgtheater

    The Burgtheater (German:; literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as " Court Theater", originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the national theater of Austria, located in Vienna.

    780 m to the next stop

  7. Votivkirche

    The Votivkirche is a neo-Gothic style church located on the Ringstraße in Vienna, Austria. Following the attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1853, the Emperor’s brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian inaugurated a campaign to create a church to thank God for saving the Emperor’s life. Funds for construction were solicited from throughout the Empire.