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Landstraße is the third district of Vienna, the largest of the inner (single-numbered) districts. While most tourists arriving by air end up at Landstraße on their train from the airport, many head immediately towards the ring and Innere Stadt. There are many reasons to stay and explore the district though.
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Belvedere Palace
Intended as a summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy, was outside the city walls. Its two palace segments, the Upper and Lower Belvedere, later became the permanent home of the Austrian Gallery.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Contains recent Austrian and international art from the past two centuries. Viennese art from the early 20th century is well-represented in the permanent collection Vienna around 1900 and the Art of the Classical Modern, and includes masterpieces from Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele, as well as earlier works by the Biedermeier painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.
Lower Belvedere / Orangery
The Lower Belvedere and Orangery house temporary exhibits. The Baroque state rooms including the Marble Gallery, Golden Room, and Grotesque Hall are open for normal visiting.
Palace Stables
The former stables now house a permanent collection of medieval religious art and a collection of medieval tapestries.
Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst / Museum of Contemporary Art
Has a permanent exhibit of works by the Austrian sculptor/architect Fritz Wotruba, and hosts rotating exhibits of international contemporary art.
Vienna House of the Arts
Even an avowed hater of modern art can appreciate this. This is Hundertwasser's (born Friedrich Stowasser in 1928) major contribution to the Viennese art world. In a time when artists often try to shock the public or merely impress other members of the rarefied gallery subculture, Hundertwasser's KunstHausWien would be a bastion against the dictatorship of the straight line, the ruler and T-square, a bridgehead against the grid system and the chaos of the absurd. Starting with the façade of the building, adapted from its prior life as a furniture factory, there is a Gaudi-in-Barcelona feel to the place. Windows peek out like eyes from curvy, rounded plaster and colorful paint. It is a Disneyland for grownups.
Museum of Military History
A huge museum featuring weapons and military maps from different periods. You can also see the open-top car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the last Austrian prince, was shot in Sarajevo. His death triggered World War I and the eventual downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the same room as this is the visibly blood-stained jacket he was wearing at the time of his assassination.
Museum of Art Fakes
Unique museum devoted to art forgery. Houses a large collection of counterfeited paintings, many from highly-skilled, infamous forgers. Includes several pages of the infamous fake Hitler diaries which fooled numerous experts in the early 1980s.
Museum of public transport (formerly known as Straßenbahnmuseum / Streetcar Museum)
This museum in a former depot houses a comprehensive collection of vintage vehicles explaining the history of Viennese public transport. The exhibits include horse-drawn streetcars from 1868, a steam tram set from 1885, many electric streetcars from the 1910s until the recent past, and buses from 1949-1978, including the infamous "Reichsbrücken-Bus" which fell into the Danube but was recovered and repaired to run for many more years. The simulator of a U-Bahn train is considered the highlight among guests. Attached small gift shop. Major labels are in English and German, but some smaller items are labelled in German only.
Interesting apartment/office complex, designed by the Austrian architect/painter Hundertwasser. Remember that most of it is still in use as housing or offices and respect the residents' privacy. The nearby KunstHausWien (see above) is a Hundertwasser building you can freely explore.
The Schwarzenberg place is a big square in inner Vienna. It is faced by many palaces amongst them the Palais Schwarzenberg, the hosue of industry, the French embassy and others.The square runs next to the RIng.
Soviet War Memorial
An imposing Soviet-style monument near Karlsplatz commemorates the Soviet victory in Vienna over the Nazi army.
This building houses an archive of the works of the Viennese composer, with a permanent exhibit relating to his work and music and a gallery of his paintings.
St. Marx Cemetery
This historic cemetery was in use from 1784 until 1874. Mozart was buried here in an unmarked pauper's grave in 1791; the tombstone dates from a later period, after his grave was tentatively identified. The Bezirksmuseum Landstraße offers regular guided tours of the cemetery (in German).
Botanic Gardens
Established in 1754 by Empress Maria Theresia as a garden for medicinal plants and granted to the University of Vienna, which has maintained it since. The gardens contain a number of rare plants, including alpine specimens.
Built between 1911 and 1913, the Konzerthaus is the homebase for the Vienna Symphony (Wiener Symphoniker), the Vienna Chamber Orchestra (Wiener Kammerorchester), the Wiener Singakademie and the Klangforum Wien.
Arena Wien
The arena is one of the biggest concert and alternative culture places. The slaughterhouse got squatted in 1976 and operates since as culture center. FM4 hosts here its annual birthday party. The programme lists the performing artists. The open air arena can host 3000 peoples.
The Akademietheater is the smaller of two performance halls of the Burgtheater ensemble. It was built between 1911 and 1913 by the architects Fellner und Hellmer and Ludwig Baumann.
Wiener Eislauf-Verein
At the Wiener Eislaufverein in winter time one can skate on a big 6000 m² square.
Chain of vegetarian restaurants. Serves a huge variety of Taiwanese Buddhist vegetarian food. Most of it vegan, many meat imitations. Non-smoking.
Typical Viennese outdoor market with fresh produce as well as stalls selling baked goods and other prepared food.
The restaurant serves seasonal Viennese food typically of course plates with large quantities. The cellar is a vinothek with a good selection of Austrian wines.
Favorite place from nearby Japanese embassy. The place has a bit dated interior.
The Belgium restaurant in this renovated tavern offers seafood with refined sauces. Daily lunch menu.
The restaurant inside an old butchery serves modern Viennese food. Free Wi-Fi.
The Chinese restaurant is best visited with several persons to be able to taste their different plates.
Gareth "Gaz" Smith is cooking here daily, hence this Irish pub may serve the best Irish food in Vienna (not only legendary fish and chips).
A Vietnamese restaurant next to the shop has small delicate choices. The cellar has one table tennis.
The small cellar place cooks Thai food (green curry,..) on the spicy side of life.
The Cretan (not Greek) restaurant changes its menu daily.
Contemporary Viennese and European cuisine. Vegan options available. Extensive wine and cocktail list.
Traditional Italian pizzeria and trattoria. Friendly service, extensive menu, good wine list. Popular with locals.
The very posh restaurant offers 120 different cheese varieties combined with freshly baked Viennese bread. This is the "bistro" of the Steiereck, but still extremely classy.
The most renowned Austrian restaurant in middle of the beautiful Stadtpark is defintely worth a visit. Heinz Reitbauer is cooking with exotic or mostly forgotten natural herbs. Much of the menu features modernistic presentations of traditional Central European meats such as venison, carp, and crayfish. Adi Schmid is the leading Sommelier. Reservation in advance is definitely needed.
Italian cooks use well chosen products for their pizzas.
Designed by Robin Molenaar and Yvonne Krisch with Rainer seats and an industrial bar, the café has a cool look plus interesting vegetarian options.
Incredible lustre above the bar from the 1960s.
The brewery has a Viennese kitchen, but people mostly come for the good beer.
The outdoor bar serves daily happy hour cocktails during 18:00-19:00. As the name tells it is a bar on sand next to the Danube canal near the Urania.
Spa and tennis possibilities.
The rooms are nice and smallish, but still stylish.
Rather boring outside and inside (although with liberal use of red), the hotel is easy to miss at the far end of Landstrasser Hauptstrasse. Amedia marks high on comfort, cleaniness and service, which is a combination rarely found in Viennese hotels.
Surprisingly tasteful, with large rooms, oversized beds and very reasonable pricing - and next to the Belvedere gardens indeed. You can get airline miles with many frequent flier programmes by staying at Lindner hotels.
More Biedermeier than grand, this Mercure is a very typical representative of Viennese hotels, with questionable colours and patterns, all wrapped in a vaguely historic setting. That said, the unusually large rooms (esp. Privilege) make it an option worth considering. Many rooms face the narrow internal courtyard, i.e. another room's windows within a short distance.
The NH corporate unformization did not quite make it to this hotel, but you can expect reasonable standards - and a simpler format of the typical Viennese hotel. Next door to the Lindner, the NH is indeed close to the Belvedere
The hotel offers spacious and modern rooms including great breakfast.
Home to Vienna’s premier conference centre. Features meeting space for 2-1,800 and provides a business service centre.
This Renaissance is one of the Marriott properties scattered across Vienna, located in a renovated historic building of the former Imperial Riding School - not to be confused with the Spanish Riding School, which is far away from it. With an impressive interior and rooms appointed with decorations referencing the equine history, it surely does impress.
See above for the bar.
Classy older hotel on a quiet side street, tastefully renovated and modernized. Good-quality breakfast buffet included in the price.
A relatively upper middle-class neighbourhood shopping street, with a wide variety of business from pubs and clubs to organic shops to second-hand stores. The Rochus Market, Rochusmarkt, and a shopping arcade are located along this street as well.
Brasil Kaffee
The coffee shop also sells and repairs coffee machines. The main reason to come here is to purchase good coffee beans. They are one of the very few places in Vienna which even sells excellent green beans, and their roastery offers many choices.
Mario Sciurti sells Italian Espresso-machines. The shop serves a short espresso (Ristretto).
Bahnhof Wien Mitte is the main railway station in the district. This is where the City Airport Train from Vienna International Airport terminates and S-Bahn train S7 from the airport stops as well.
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