This landscaped park from 1775 is dotted with open meadows and criss-crossed by paths lined with elm, lime, chestnut and maple trees. You can kick a ball in one section, let the kids stage a riot in a playground in another, or visit the porcelain museum. The park contains the city's oldest baroque garden. Among the park's most eye-catching features are the austere Flaktürme (flak towers) in its northern and western corners.


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1. Porzellanmuseum im Augarten

0.19 MILES

Restored to its former glory and reopened in 2011, this imperial pleasure palace harbours a new museum dedicated to exquisite Augarten porcelain. Founded…

2. Wiener Kriminalmuseum

0.54 MILES

The Vienna Crime Museum is a gruesome chapter in the Viennese obsession with death. It takes a tabloid-style look at crimes and criminals in Austria and…

3. Rossauer Kaserne

0.63 MILES

This huge red-brick complex, today housing the police, Defence Department and Vienna’s traffic office, was originally built as a barracks after the 1848…

4. Servitenkirche

0.7 MILES

Dominating the Serviten quarter (a small confluence of cobblestone streets lined with bars, restaurants and shops a few blocks from the Ringstrasse), the…

5. Johann Strauss Residence

0.82 MILES

Strauss the Younger called Praterstrasse 54 home from 1863 to 1878 and composed the waltz, ‘The Blue Danube’, under its high ceilings. Inside you’ll find…

6. Palais Liechtenstein

0.83 MILES

Once the architectural muse of Italian landscape painter Canaletto, Palais Liechtenstein is a sublime baroque palace that sits in beautifully landscaped,…

7. Sigmund Freud Museum

0.83 MILES

Sigmund Freud is a bit like the telephone – once he happened, there was no going back. This is where Freud spent his most prolific years and developed the…

8. Monument to the Victims of Fascism

0.89 MILES

On the site of the former Gestapo headquarters during the Nazi era at Morzinplatz, this 1985 monument features the Star of David and the pink triangle,…