If it’s your first time in Vienna and you only have a few days to spare then Innere Stadt – which literally means inner city – is the perfect base for your trip. It is time to start planning your trip to this cultured capital so we’ve rounded up the best places to stay in Vienna so that you to make the most out of your break to the Austrian capital. There are interesting markets to explore that have come to be known for the array of international goods on sale, and then there is the trendy regeneration that has seen the coffee house culture expand and flourish.

It’s an exciting urban sprawl of aesthetic invention and can easily be traversed by the network of trams, metro and buses. Vienna’s neighborhoods are unique in their own right, each offering tourists a view into the lives of locals and a slice of the varying communities that call the city home. Walk the beautifully baroque streets, wander the majestic palaces and admire the artistic treasures and then take a break to sip fresh coffee in a classically Viennese coffee house, or cold beer in the many pubs and bars, and finish off your days by devouring goulash or luxuriating in elegant eating in one of the many stylish eateries. A cultural, creative and chic city, Vienna is an impressive showcase of European history and imperial grandeur that has played out across the city’s 23 districts over the centuries.

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