# Vienna: map, what to do and when to go

Vienna is the former Habsburg seat, with baroque palaces, museums of Bruegel and Schiele, and an Opera that performs almost every night. The capital of Austria, it has about 2 million inhabitants in 23 numbered districts and once governed an empire of 52 million.

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## Direct answer
- **Vienna: Is the 48- or 72-hour pass still sold?** No: both stopped being sold on January 1, 2026, and what's left is the 24-hour pass, for €10.20 on paper or €9.70 on mobile, the 7-consecutive-day pass from activation, and single tickets.
- **Vienna: How do you get from the airport to downtown?** By S7 suburban train, almost always the best option: it takes about 25 minutes to Wien Mitte and Praterstern for around €4.40, and the ticket already includes the continuation inside the city.
- **Vienna: How much does a day in the city cost?** Count on €90 to 150 per person per day at a mid-range standard, €55 to 75 on a tight budget and more than €250 with a central hotel.

## The imperial center inside the Ring
9am: Stephansdom before the line; climb the 343 steps of the south tower for a close look at the colorful tiled roof and the layout of the first district.
- Stephansdom
- Hofburg
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Staatsoper

## Baroque, Klimt, and wine on the slope
9am: Schönbrunn with a timed slot; take the Grand Tour, about 40 rooms, then climb up to the Gloriette on foot through the garden.
- Schönbrunn
- Belvedere Superior

## 20th century, market, and the Danube
Have breakfast at 9am at the Naschmarkt, with Liptauer and bread; on Saturdays, the flea market occupies the western end.
- MuseumsQuartier e Leopold
- Prater e Riesenrad
- Naschmarkt, Secessão e Karlskirche

## Stephansdom
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Innere Stadt
The Gothic cathedral at the exact point the city measures itself from; the south tower, 136.4 m tall, was completed in 1433, and the roof has about 230,000 glazed tiles in a colorful pattern. There are 343 steps up to the watchman's room; the north tower holds the Pummerin bell, recast in 1951 after the 1945 fire.
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## Hofburg
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Innere Stadt
The Habsburgs' winter residence since the 13th century, today a complex of wings that still houses the presidency of the republic. It brings together the Imperial Treasury, with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from the 10th century and the Holy Lance, the Imperial Apartments, the Sisi Museum, the Spanish Riding School, and the Prunksaal of the National Library, a baroque hall from 1726.
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## Schönbrunn
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Hietzing
The summer palace with 1,441 rooms, about 40 of which are open to visitors, and a garden that climbs up to the Gloriette, from 1775. The same park holds the Tiergarten, founded in 1752, the oldest zoo in the world still operating; book a timed slot, especially between June and August.
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## Upper Belvedere
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Viena
The palace completed by Hildebrandt in 1723 for Prince Eugene of Savoy, and the room where the State Treaty was signed in 1955. It holds “The Kiss” (1908) and the world's largest Klimt collection, plus works by Schiele and Kokoschka; the Lower Belvedere, at the far end of the garden, hosts temporary shows.
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## Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Innere Stadt
A museum from 1891 on the Ringstrasse with the largest gathering of Bruegel paintings in existence (12 of them, including “Hunters in the Snow”), plus Vermeer, Raphael, Velázquez and the Habsburgs' Chamber of Wonders. The twin building across from it is the Natural History Museum, home to the roughly 29,500-year-old Venus of Willendorf.
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## MuseumsQuartier and Leopold
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Neubau · Up to half an hour
Former imperial stables converted in 2001 into a complex of about 90,000 m². The Leopold holds the world's largest Egon Schiele collection, the mumok shows 20th-century art in a gray basalt block, and the courtyard works as a public living room, with colorful benches, from April to October.
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## Staatsoper
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Innere Stadt
Opened in 1869, destroyed in 1945 and reopened in 1955, the Staatsoper stages about 350 performances per season, with a different program almost every night. Besides the seats, the house has 435 standing-room spots, the cheapest ones, sold on the day of the performance itself.
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## Prater and Riesenrad
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Leopoldstadt
An imperial hunting ground opened to the public in 1766, with 6 km² of greenery, the straight Hauptallee promenade, 4.4 km long, and an amusement park with no entrance fee: you pay per ride. The 1897 Ferris wheel is 64.75 m tall with 15 wooden cabins, what's left of the original 30.
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## Naschmarkt, Secession, and Karlskirche
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Wieden
A stretch of about 1.5 km over the channeled Wien river: the market, with more than a hundred stalls and a flea market on Saturdays; the golden-domed Secession pavilion from 1898, with Klimt's Beethoven Frieze in the basement; and Fischer von Erlach's Karlskirche, finished in 1737, with two 33 m narrative columns.
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## Zentralfriedhof
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Kaiserebersdorf · Up to half an hour
A 2.5 km² cemetery opened in 1874, with about 330,000 graves and more dead than the city has living. Group 32A gathers Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Strauss Jr., and Falco is in group 40, grave 64, near gate 3. Get off tram 71 at gate 2 and make the walk to the graves the stroll itself.
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**Vienna: Is the 48- or 72-hour pass still sold?**
No: both stopped being sold on January 1, 2026, and what's left is the 24-hour pass, for €10.20 on paper or €9.70 on mobile, the 7-consecutive-day pass from activation, and single tickets.

**Vienna: How do you get from the airport to downtown?**
By S7 suburban train, almost always the best option: it takes about 25 minutes to Wien Mitte and Praterstern for around €4.40, and the ticket already includes the continuation inside the city. The regional CJX and Railjet trains reach the Hauptbahnhof in 15 to 18 minutes, with the same type of ticket.

**Vienna: How much does a day in the city cost?**
Count on €90 to 150 per person per day at a mid-range standard, €55 to 75 on a tight budget and more than €250 with a central hotel. In 2026, coffee at a Kaffeehaus costs €4.50 to 6.50, the lunch menu €11 to 16, dinner at a Beisl €18 to 30 per person without a drink, and half a liter of beer €4.50 to 6. Admission to a major museum runs €16 to 22, with Schönbrunn and the Belvedere between €22 and €27, and a mid-range hotel room €120 to 190 a night, against €30 to 45 for a hostel bed.

**Vienna: What's the climate like and when does it rain?**
The climate is continental with Pannonian influence: four distinct seasons and less rain than the latitude suggests, about 550 to 600 mm a year, concentrated in short downpours between May and August.

**Vienna: Do you need to greet when entering a shop?**
Yes: say “Grüß Gott” or “Guten Tag” when entering a shop, bakery, elevator or waiting room; leaving without an “Auf Wiederschauen” gets noticed.

## From the airport to the center


| Route | Time | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| VIE → Wien Mitte and Praterstern · S7 suburban train | about 25 min | about €4.40, onward travel in the city included |
| VIE → Hauptbahnhof · CJX and Railjet regional trains | 15–18 min | same type of ticket as the S7 |
| VIE → Wien Mitte · City Airport Train (CAT), non-stop | 16 min | €14.90 one way |
| VIE → center · Vienna Airport Lines bus | varies | about €11 |
| VIE → center · taxi or ride-hailing | 25–40 min | €36–45 |

## In the Nilo app
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## Full editorial guide (Portuguese)
https://nilopelomundo.com/llm/viena.md