Viennese Parliament House
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With the ticket vendor sold us tickets to a concert. He might look phony, but the concert turned out to be one of the highlights of our trip.
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In front of the world famous Vienna Opera House
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In front of the Cheese store which was in a small pedestrian market.
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Vienna is known for its pastries - rightfully so. The shops are so inviting. How can you just walk past this?? We tried to, but it's hard.
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German poet, Goethe, who wrote Faust
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Inside the concert hall where Mozart performed and debuted his pieces
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Inside the concert hall with the stage behind me
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The performers. They were magnificent. I couldn't believe how incredible acoustics were and how much sound just a few instruments could produce.
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Landtman's Cafe, a cafe where Sigmud Freud used to hang out.
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View of the Jewish Quarter
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View of Mozart's apartment building, now a museum
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KunstHaus, a modern house, turned modern art museum
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Danube Tower, observatory and restaurant
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Vienna is home to one of the 3 UN complexes (The others are NY and Geneva). This is the UNO city (United Nations Offices), and just as a current events reference, Mohamed ElBaradei and the IAEA are housed there.
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Stephensdom (St. Steven's Cathedral) which dates back 800 years
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Vienna is also known for its cafe culture. Here, inside the historic Cafe Diglas, is a quirky chandelier with spoons and forks hanging from it.
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Outside our place in Vienna
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In front of Schonbrunn Palace, the summer villa of the Hapsburgs.
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Schonbrunn Palace - this was the most well-maintained historic site we visited on the whole trip
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