The Old Synagogue, Vienna
Underneath the Judenplatz (The Jewish Square), you will find this underground medieval synagogue excavation.
Underneath the Judenplatz (The Jewish Square), you will find this underground medieval synagogue excavation. Amazingly, the synagogue was destroyed centuries ago, but its existence was remembered by the area's inhabitants up to the 20th Century. If you are interested in Vienna's Jewish side you can buy a combined ticket with the Jewish Museum and the Stadttempel, a well preserved 19th Century synagogue, which is being used as the main city's synagogue by the current growing Viennese Jewish community.
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The Old Synagogue and Nearby Sights on Map
Jüdisches Museum
A museum documenting the history of Vienna's substantial Jewish community which included Zweig, Freud, Herzl, Mahler, and Schoenberg
Kapuzinerkirche
Notable mainly as the site of the Kaisergruft, a mausoleum housing the tombs of generations of Habsburg royalty
Augustinian Friars' Church
Yet another example of the gruesome divide-and-conquer burial strategy of the Habsburg dynasty
Film Museum
A cinema for showing specially curated films and retrospective
Imperial Treasury
The best part of the Hofburg and an absolute must
Austrian National Library
Card catalogs may be an anachronism in today's digitized world, but this library had the first one in existence, invented by the Habsburg court librarian
Albertina
The Albertina is the largest Habsburg residential palace and a popular art gallery in Vienna, with over 50,000 drawings and one million prints dating from Late Gothic to contemporary
Peterskirche (Vienna)
Hofburg Palace
This immense palace complex grew into a large, unwieldy series of buildings over the years and was the imperial residence of the Habsburg emperors until 1918
Opera House
Probably the most-beloved symbol of Viennese arts, and one of the first buildings to be rebuilt in the postwar era