Vienna is a remarkable city, everything, from the people themselves to the famous Sachertorte, seems mature and cultivated. Nowhere else will you feel the romance, grace, and civilization of Old Europe than in Vienna.

Begin at St. Stephen's Cathedral, the focal point of the city. It has the highest steeple and is at the heartbeat of one of the busiest intersections in town near the Graben, the elegant pedestrian shopping street with its baroque Plague Column, built by Leopold I to commemorate the end of the plague in 1679.

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