Saturday, September 8, 2018

Vienna, Austria

There are worse places to be than Vienna on a summer day.

It certainly ranks as one of the great cities of Europe. Lots of architecture, history, public art, etc. are available for visitors. You can almost hear the music in the background when walking around.

About a third of Austria's population lives around Vienna - 2.6 million in the metro area. It's been a popular place ever since it was founded a few years more than 2,000 years ago. Vienna was the setting for the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, which brought to an end - more or less - about a quarter-century of nearly non-stop fighting in Europe. Peace was more or less in place for about 100 years, so although it wasn't a perfect deal it clearly had some good points.

The list of famous people born in Vienna is a long and diverse one: Marie Antoinette, Niki Lauda, Johann Strauss, Milton Bradley, Joseph Haydn, and Franz Schubert. At one point in 1913, the following lived in Vienna in the same part of town: Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin.

Let's look around a bit:



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