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Vienna is a thoroughly contemporary city where the past and future of Europe come together. From its rich history, the city has adopted the finest of the new and still preserves its traditions and history. The waltz and Mozart are still extremely alive in this city where film, music, the opera and museums draw trendy and stylish crowds. The Viennese elevated the coffee house to a cultural institution in Europe and still sets the standard. People spend hours in the coffee houses, discussing ideas and enjoying pastries.

The City is as diverse as the countryside around it; historic Vienna where architectural masterpieces from three or four hundred years old, face each other across narrow lanes or broad squares, market towns that have scarcely transformed since the Middle Ages. You'll always get a sense of old meets new in the city. Apart from being a place of extraordinary magnificence, Vienna is also one of the world's most exhilarating cities.

The Ring Boulevard is 4 km long and circles the city centre. Emperor Franz Joseph I initiated the creation of the Ring Boulevard in December 1857. The marvelous road was erected on the free space, which emerged following the tearing down the former city walls, glacis and military enforcement's shielding the city center, today's first district ('Innere Stadt'). By this the emperor hoped to overcome the separation of city center and the suburbs, which had officially develop into part of Vienna in 1850. Ring boulevard was generously planned, leaving enough room for a sheltered avenue and immense buildings like Hofburg, Austrian Parliament, State Opera House, Museum of Fine Arts, the first public observatory Urania and Vienna university.