Major tourist attractions include the imperial palaces of the Hofburg and Schonbrunn (also home to the world's oldest zoo, Tiergarten Schonbrunn) and the Riesenrad in the Prater. Cultural highlights include the Burgtheater, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Lippizaner horses at the Spanish Riding School and the Vienna Boys' Choir, as well as excursions to Vienna's Heurigen district Döbling.
There are also more than 100 art museums, which together attract over eight million visitors per year. The most popular ones are Albertina, Belvedere, Leopold Museum in the Museumquartier, KunstHausWien, BA-CA Kunstforum, the twin Kunsthistorisches Museum and Naturhistorischesmuseum, and the Technical Museum of Vienna, each of which receives over a quarter of a million visitors per year. Some of the finest hotels in Vienna offer guides for this multitude of places to see.
There are many popular sites associated with composers who lived in Vienna including Beethoven's various residences and grave at Central Cemetery which is the largest cemetery in Vienna and the burial site of many famous people. Mozart has a memorial grave at the Habsburg gardens and at St. Marx cemetery (where his grave was lost). Vienna's many churches also draw large crowds, the most famous of which are St. Stephen Cathedral, the Baroque Karlskirche, the churches of the Teutonic Order, the Minorites and the Jesuites, Ruprechtskirche and the Votivkirche.
Modern attractions include the Hundertwasserhaus, the United Nations Headquarters and the view from the Donauturm.
The list of all these attractions wouldn't be complete without mentioning the Viennese cafes and restaurants where the Viennese cuisine and coffee culture shows the refined tastes of the nobility of old.
Your expensive tastes will be completely satisfied in hotel Vienna Danube.
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