The name Lainzer Tiergarten is mildly misleading. There are indeed deer to be found in this wooded nature preserve on the western edge of Vienna. But it’s not a garden as we traditionally think of it and there is so much more than deer here. Tucked in a small area at the foothills of the […]

Modern Vienna is divided into 23 Bezirke or districts. The first district, known locally as Innere Stadt and encircled by Ringstrasse, comprises what before 1850 was virtually all of Austria’s capital. Within this area are many of the finest attractions of one of Europe’s grandest cities. But there are others elsewhere that offer equally exciting […]