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Vienna Austria 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 preserves its traditions and history. The waltz and Mozart are 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 located here are historical architectural masterpieces from three or four hundred years old. That face each other across narrow lanes or broad squares and market towns. They have scarcely transformed since the Middle Ages. Apart from being a place of extraordinary magnificence, it is also one of the world's most exhilarating cities.
The Ring Boulevard is 4 km long and circles the city center. (Emperor Franz Joseph I) initiated the creation of the Ring Boulevard in December 1857. A marvelous road was erected on the free space, which emerged following the tearing down the former city walls, glass and military enforcement shielding the city center, in today's first district ('Innere Stadt'). By doing this the emperor hoped to overcome the separation of the city center and the suburbs, which had officially developed into part of this location in 1850. Ring Boulevard was generously planned, leaving enough room for a sheltered Avenue an immense building like Hofburg, Austrian Parliament, State Opera House, Museum of Fine Arts, the first public observatory Urania and the citys Vienna university.
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