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Walking Tour of Historic Central Vienna

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"Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure, I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna." Storm Jameson, Author Vienna: city of music, city of intellectualism, city of dreams has stolen my heart in just one weekend! We flew to Vienna a few weeks ago to meet our friends Leila and Ian, and had an incredible storybook weekend. Today, I'm going to show you around some of the sites that we saw in the historic section of Vienna, mostly within the Ringstrasse. (For more things to do in and around Vienna, please see my blog titled "Vienna--Most romantic weekend city"  https://www.mylovelylifeabroad.com/2019/04/vienna-most-romantic-weekend-city.html   ) Photo from my Romantic weekend in Vienna blog But first, would you like a tiny bit of history and some fun facts? 1. Austria's capital, Vienna lies in the country's eastern side, along the Danube River.  2. It was settled early by the Romans as a milit...