The real Vienna
Wander among about 1,800 buildings rebuilt in 3D from OpenStreetMap: a first piece of the centre, with more of the city to come.
Instant Vienna BETA
Explore or race by bike, on foot or on horseback through the heart of Vienna!
Ride through the heart of Vienna in 3D, past the Stephansdom, the Graben, the Hofburg and the State Opera, with every building from OpenStreetMap.
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What there is to do
Innere Stadt
Start at the Stephansdom, ride down the Graben to the Hofburg on Michaelerplatz, and round the Ringstraße to the State Opera and the Albertina.
A race: Innere Stadt and Ring
Race from the Stephansdom down the Graben to the Hofburg, round the Ringstraße to the State Opera and back past the Albertina and the Neuer Markt.
This is Vienna
Vienna is the capital of Austria and, for more than six hundred years, was the seat of the Habsburgs, who ruled a great part of Europe from its palaces. Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss made music here, Freud and Klimt changed how people saw the mind and art, and the city still keeps its imperial palaces, its Ringstraße and its old coffee houses.
- St Stephen’s Cathedral and its tall Gothic spire in the middle of the old town
- The Hofburg and Schönbrunn, the winter and summer palaces of the Habsburg emperors
- Classical music, from the State Opera and the waltz to the Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert
- Coffee houses, Sachertorte and Wiener Schnitzel
Places, elements and landmarks
St Stephen’s CathedralVienna’s Gothic cathedral, with its 136-metre south tower and a roof of glazed tiles in zigzags.
GrabenVienna’s grand shopping street on the line of the Roman ditch, with the Plague Column in the middle.
Plague ColumnThe Baroque column of clouds and angels put up after the plague of 1679.
HofburgThe Habsburgs’ winter palace for six centuries, now the seat of Austria’s president.
MichaelerplatzThe round square at the Hofburg’s gate, where Roman ruins and Adolf Loos’ plain house face the palace.
Spanish Riding SchoolThe white Lipizzaner stallions dance in a Baroque riding hall inside the Hofburg.
State OperaOpened in 1869, the first great building on the Ringstraße and one of the world’s great opera houses.
AlbertinaA Habsburg palace with one of the world’s largest collections of prints and drawings, Dürer’s Hare among them.
BurgtheaterOne of the most important German-language theatres, on the Ringstraße, opposite the town hall.
Famous art in Vienna
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