Out and about with my camera...

The Hofburg

The Hofburg up close

The Museumsquartier slogan: 'It happens here.'

The Museumsquartier with the Art Hall on the left and the Museum of Modern Art at the back.

The Spanish Riding School (complete with horse poking it's head out of the stable door)

Plaque commemorating one of Mozart's many houses

Turkish cannonball set in gold, from the second Turkish siege of Vienna

The Holocaust Memorial: It is meant to be a library but all the books have their spines facing inwards so you can't read the title. The books are supposed to represent the lives of those executed - as in, you can't read the names but you know they existed. There are no handles on the entrance so you can't go inside - a library no one can enter.

On the other side of the square is a statue of one of my favourite authors, G. E. Lessing. He promoted tolerance of religions long before it became a political point (and was penalised for it)

The old(er) part of the Hofburg

Plaque commemorating the visit of Mother Theresa to Heiligenkreuz Monastery

Courtyard Garden at Heiligenkreuz

Somewhat macabre 'Dance of Death' candlesticks

Pretty Rose Window

Plaque commemorating the house where Beethoven wrote some of his most famous works, including Symphonies VI,V, and VII.

Karlskirche (Church of St Charles)

Votivkirche

Balcony at Heiligenkreuz (not quite sure what happened to the order of these photos...)

Baroque ceiling at Heiligenkreuz

Oldest part of the Heiligenkreuz monastery, the central nave, over 1000 years old!