Vienna Travel Guide

Vienna will surprise you: the strains of Mozart and hip-hop music co-exist, while a stone's throw from the grand dames and their miniature dogs in traditional coffee houses are the hip new cutting-edge bars and cafés.

Vienna today is a beguiling mix of old and new, perhaps best illustrated by the new MuseumsQuartier cultural district. Here the courtyard of the old Spanish riding stables, featuring the city's largest baroque facade, is now home to contemporary museum architecture.

For most, Vienna is classical music, imperial history and monumental architecture, for others it is forever linked with The Third Man and its haunting Harry Lime Theme.