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Corvus
07-06-2013, 03:08 PM
Many Austrians have an ambivalent view of the capital, even me, but it is a nice destination for tourists I have to confess. Here are some nice pictures I found on deviantART:

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs27/f/2008/075/9/1/Gloriette__Schonbrunn_Wien_by_mikeb79.jpg

http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/004/2/f/vienna__wien__austria_by_nejc_kostanjsek-d4k6nkx.jpg

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/303/f/3/subway_wien_1_by_blackgerm-d31sqgj.jpg

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2010/045/0/0/Wien_by_DarkVampire90.jpg

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/313/1/9/alone_in_wien_by_blackgerm-d32hxvd.jpg

Corvus
07-06-2013, 03:11 PM
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/297/5/f/gray_wien_____by_orazioflacco-d31fr35.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/114/b/5/stadtpark_wien_by_dabeeedaa.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/061/4/f/Wien_by_emreadal.jpg

http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/233/d/d/museum_of_art_history___wien_1_by_pingallery-d477hk7.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/267/7/1/wiener_chic_X_by_BuChWien.jpg

Corvus
07-06-2013, 03:21 PM
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/252/a/1/wien___by_alexblood-d2y7p8e.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs25/f/2008/090/1/0/Wien_by_Fitus.jpghttp://fc03.deviantart.net/fs20/f/2007/251/7/1/Wien_by_Spiro25.jpg

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/215/b/a/wien_by_rock_one-d59n1u3.jpg

Corvus
07-06-2013, 03:33 PM
http://www.format.at/articles/1236/img/341015_e.jpg?1346670266

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/platte_wiba/dateien_tagung05/pic_tag01a.jpg

http://www.wohneninwien.at/fotos/albums/floridsdorf/grossfeldsiedlung/wien,%20floridsdorf,%20gro%C3%9Ffeldsiedlung,%20k% C3%BCrschnergasse,%20h%C3%B6he%20oswald%20redlich% 20strasse%204.JPG

http://austria-forum.org/attach/Wissenssammlungen/Bildlexikon_%C3%96sterreich/Wien/Wohnsiedlung_Alt-Erlaa/scaled-800x537_RedakII_17041_1.jpg

KrashNick
07-06-2013, 03:37 PM
I was once here and what can say Vienna was a great place .

Szegedist
12-18-2013, 06:46 PM
The Slovaks have a saying, that the Wiener Schnitzel is so thin, you can look through it in Vienna and see all the way to Pozsony/Pressburg through it :laugh:

Szegedist
12-18-2013, 07:04 PM
http://www.format.at/articles/1236/img/341015_e.jpg?1346670266

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/platte_wiba/dateien_tagung05/pic_tag01a.jpg

http://www.wohneninwien.at/fotos/albums/floridsdorf/grossfeldsiedlung/wien,%20floridsdorf,%20gro%C3%9Ffeldsiedlung,%20k% C3%BCrschnergasse,%20h%C3%B6he%20oswald%20redlich% 20strasse%204.JPG

http://austria-forum.org/attach/Wissenssammlungen/Bildlexikon_%C3%96sterreich/Wien/Wohnsiedlung_Alt-Erlaa/scaled-800x537_RedakII_17041_1.jpg

I see that Vienna suffers from this disease too, though Vienna's look much nicer than communist panelhouses.

Corvus
12-18-2013, 07:08 PM
I see that Vienna suffers from this disease too, though Vienna's look much nicer than communist panelhouses.

In Vienna its not Communist architecture but Socialist one - Sozialer Wohnbau
Maybe slightly better but still not much.

Szegedist
12-18-2013, 07:20 PM
One thing I really liked,was walking through the city by the river at night, while there was the lightning underneath the bridges (that changed colour if I remember correctly), cool effect :cool:

Corvus
12-18-2013, 07:25 PM
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/209/1/a/wien_i_by_polin_sam-d6fj63u.jpg

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/327/b/a/Wien_by_Vetera.jpg

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/209/c/0/wien_ii_by_polin_sam-d6fj6qp.jpg

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/326/3/2/horse_in_wien_____by_orazioflacco-d33edps.jpg

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/233/c/0/museum_of_art_history___wien_2_by_pingallery-d47d2uk.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs34/f/2008/305/7/6/765ec9fe61319e12912001de7500ea7d.jpg

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/229/9/9/wien___obere_belvedere_by_pingallery-d46vtuh.jpg

http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/233/a/7/wien___obere_belvedere_2_by_pingallery-d470mkp.jpg

Szegedist
12-18-2013, 07:34 PM
Sorry for spamming this thread, but one of the unique things about Vienna (since architecture, etc is not alien to me), is the sense of security, at lest in the down town area. I felt like if I would theoretically take a nap on the pavement, I would wake up feeling fresh and with all my belongings intact. This feeling I did not get in most large European cities, probably no other. In downton Berlin for example, someone tried to rob me in broad daylight (but thankfully it did not happen :laugh: )

Corvus
12-18-2013, 07:37 PM
Sorry for spamming this thread, but one of the unique things about Vienna (since architecture, etc is not alien to me), is the sense of security, at lest in the down town area. I felt like if I would theoretically take a nap on the pavement, I would wake up feeling fresh and with all my belongings intact. This feeling I did not get in most large European cities, probably no other. In downton Berlin for example, someone tried to rob me in broad daylight (but thankfully it did not happen :laugh: )

In the city centre its perhaps like you described it, but Vienna has another side too.
Actually criminality is not a small problem. Never forget its an immigrant town and also many low class people live there.

Peyrol
12-18-2013, 07:40 PM
Ah, the good-old rivals...what a great time it was...