Equitable Palais

Vienna


Now containing ground-level shops and upper-level offices, this grand 1891-completed mansion designed by Andreas Streit was one of the few in Vienna never to have been occupied by aristocratic families.

Transportation

  • ubahn: Stephansplatz

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1. Stephansdom

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Vienna’s Gothic masterpiece Stephansdom – or Steffl (Little Stephan), as it’s ironically nicknamed – is Vienna's pride and joy. A church has stood here…

2. Cathedral South Tower

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In 1433, Stephansdom's south tower reached its final height of 136.7m. Today, you can ascend the 343 steps to a small platform for one of Vienna’s most…

3. Pestsäule

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Graben is dominated by the twisting outline of this gold-topped baroque memorial, designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in 1693 at the behest of…

4. Cathedral Pummerin

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Weighing 21 tonnes, the Pummerin is Austria's largest bell and was installed in the north tower of Stephansdom in 1957. While the rest of the cathedral…

5. Stephansdom Katakomben

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The area on Stephansplatz around the cathedral was originally a graveyard – making it the dead centre of Vienna in a very literal sense. But with plague…

6. Graben

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Today Vienna's most elegant shopping street, Graben began life as a ditch dug by the Romans to protect Vinodoba. In 1192 Leopold V filled in the ditch and…

7. Jüdisches Museum

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Housed inside Palais Eskeles, Vienna’s Jüdisches Museum showcases the history of Jews in Vienna, from the first settlements at Judenplatz in the 13th…

8. Dom- & Diözesanmuseum

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The Cathedral and Diocesan Museum of Vienna is a treasure trove of religious art pieces spanning a period of more than 1000 years. Among the collection's…

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