Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The House of Strauss is a museum of the Strauss family of composers in the Casino Zögernitz in Döbling, a Biedermeier dance hall opened in 1837. About 2,000 m² of multimedia rooms trace how Johann Strauss father and son, Josef and Eduard shaped the Viennese waltz, ending with a short show in the historic ballroom where all four performed.
The Schlumberger Kellerwelten are the vaulted cellars of the Schlumberger sparkling-wine house on Heiligenstädter Straße in Döbling, a company founded by Robert Schlumberger in 1842. Tours of 30 to 45 minutes, with an audio guide in eight languages, explain the traditional bottle-fermentation method and end with a tasting.
The Danube Tower is a 252-metre tower in Donaupark in Vienna's 22nd district, built for the 1964 International Garden Show to a design by Hannes Lintl and Robert Krapfenbauer. Two lifts reach the observation deck at 150 metres in about 35 seconds, and the tower head also holds a revolving restaurant and a café.
The Votivkirche is a neo-Gothic church beside the University of Vienna, built from 1856 to 1879 to designs by Heinrich von Ferstel as thanks for Emperor Franz Joseph's survival of an assassination attempt in 1853. Its museum in the raised oratory shows liturgical objects, banners and the carved Antwerp Passion Altar of around 1500.
St. Peter's Church is a Baroque Catholic church on Petersplatz, just off the Graben, built from 1701 to 1733; Gabriele Montani began it and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt continued the work from 1703. Its green oval dome rises 56 metres, and inside Johann Michael Rottmayr painted the dome fresco. Since 1970 the church has been entrusted to Opus Dei.
St. Stephen's Cathedral on Stephansplatz is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna. Its Romanesque and Gothic form was largely begun under Duke Rudolf IV in the 14th century on the site of a church consecrated in 1147, and it is known for its patterned tiled roof and 136-metre south tower.
The Haus der Musik is a museum of sound and music in the Palace of Archduke Charles on Seilerstätte, opened in 2000. Its interactive rooms explain how sound is made and heard, cover the Vienna Philharmonic, whose founder Otto Nicolai lived in the building, and composers who worked in Vienna, and include a virtual conductor that lets visitors lead an orchestra on screen.
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