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More churches: this is the Michaelskirche, dating from the 13th century. The crypt below this church holds an ungodly assortment of moldering coffins, many open and displaying their grisly contents. |
Blutstrasse, one of Vienna's narrower streets. |
Cinema buffs will recognize this doorway, #8, as the one Orson Welles emerges from at the beginning of the movie The Third Man. Music buffs will recognize it as the entrance to Beethoveen's apartment when he lived in Vienna. |
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Rain or shine, people always show up at Hoher Markt at noon to watch the 12 figures march across the face of the huge clock there. |
Closeup of the clock face on Hoher Markt Square. |
The famous Shakespeare and Co. Book Store, on Sterngasse, just off Hoher Mark. Their Web Site: See if you can figure it out! |
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Statue of the "Waltz King" Johann Straus in the Stadtpark. The environs is a favorite hangout of punk rockers. |
The world-renowned Cafe Central, now basically a tourist trap, was formerly the hangout of Leo Trotsky and a wide array of other intellectuals, artistes, and poseurs. One Austrian official, informed by the secret police that Russian exiles in Vienna were plotting a revolution in their home country, reportedly replied sarcastically: "And who on earth is going to make a revolution in Russia? I suppose you're going to tell me that Trotsky fellow who sits drinking coffee all day in the Cafe Central?" |
Front of Julius Meinl, Vienna's upscale supermarket: Giant Eagle never looked like this! |
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