We spent today in Vienna, Austria. Most of it was walking around and seeing what we could see.

This is the Spanish Riding School and a couple of the Lipizzaner horses. 

Festive streets even away from Christmas markets.

St. Peter’s Church

St. Stephen’s Cathedral was built between the 12th and 16the centuries. It survived WWII bombing, but the roof caught fire in1945, destroying artwork and artifacts, and was replaced in 1950.

Inside the cathedral.

Wiener Neustädter Altar is the oldest preserved winged altarpiece in Austria. This is the weekday side. There is a fancier Sunday side.

The Ankeruhr, or Anchor Clock, is an Art Nouveau clock. It is a linear clock: each hour one of the figures moves across the clock and at the top of the hour a song plays. The music is different for each hour. At noon all of the figures move across to music. 

The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial. It is a representation of a library of books placed backwards on the shelves so you cannot see what is on them, making them unreadable. The doors to the library have no handles. On the ground around them is the names of the extermination camps where the people were sent.

We did make it to Christmas Markets. The biggest was the Wiener Christkindlmarkt.