Herzlich Wilkommen 🤗
Everything you need to know before your trip to Vienna!
Vienna is the capital, largest city, and one of nine states of
Austria. Vienna is Austria's most populous city, with
about two million inhabitants (2.9 million within the metropolitan area
nearly one third of the country's population), and its cultural,
economic, and political center.
It is the
6th-largest city
proper by population in the European Union and the largest of all cities
on Danube river.
Here are some fun facts about Vienna:
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The city of dreams 🌙
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, lived and worked in Vienna for much of his career. -
The snow globe 🔮
The snow globe was also invented in Vienna. In 1900, Erwin Perzy, a fine instruments mechanic, was trying to improve the brightness of lightbulbs for a surgical lamp. But instead, he accidentally invented a snow globe. -
The best city in the world 🌍
Vienna has been voted the world’s most livable city for the last 7 years in a row. Taking into account such factors as political, social and economic climate, medical care, education, recreational opportunities, environmental conditions, infrastructural conditions, Vienna consistently comes out on top!