A Quick Guide To Vienna Austria
If you’re looking for a city with beautiful architecture, a pleasant climate and a highly significant cultural heritage, Vienna is hard to beat.
The capital city of Austria, Vienna has a population of approximately 1.6 million and the currency in use is the Euro. The climate in Vienna is mild, usually reaching the mid-twenties celsius during the Summer and rarely falling below zero in wintertime.
Vienna was originally a Celtic city, formed around the year 500BC. By the Middle Ages, it was home to the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rampaging Ottoman Turks were stopped on two occasions at Vienna, and in 1815 the city was the site of the Congress of Vienna following the defeat of Napolean at Waterloo. During World War II, a quarter of this historic city’s buildings were either damaged or completely destroyed, and the population fell dramatically. The rebuilding of the infrastructure of the city began after the war and since the nineteen eighties, the population of Vienna has begun to increase again.
