Vienna

== Tourist attractions==
{{main|Tourist attractions in Vienna}}
[[File: Wien Votivkirche Südseite 01.jpg|thumb| The [[Votivkirche, Vienna|Votivkirche]] on the Ring]]
Major tourist attractions include the imperial palaces of the [[Hofburg Imperial Palace]] and [[Schönbrunn Palace]] and the [[Wiener Riesenrad]] in the Prater. Cultural highlights include the [[Burgtheater]], the [[Vienna State Opera]], the [[Lipizzan]]er horses at the [[Spanish Riding School]], and the [[Vienna Boys' Choir]].

There are also more than 100 art museums, which together attract over eight million visitors per year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wien.gv.at/statistik/pdf/viennainfigures.pdf |page=10 |title=Vienna in figures: Special Issue for the EU Presidency 2006 |publisher=City of Vienna |access-date=23 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216024130/http://www.wien.gv.at/statistik/pdf/viennainfigures.pdf |archive-date=16 December 2011}}</ref> The most popular ones are [[Albertina, Vienna|Albertina]], [[Österreichische Galerie Belvedere|Belvedere]] and [[Leopold Museum]] in the [[Museumsquartier]], the twin ''[[Kunsthistorisches Museum]]'' and ''[[Naturhistorisches Museum]]'', and the [[Technisches Museum Wien]], each of which receives over a quarter of a million visitors per year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/vienna-must-dos/ |title=Top 30 Sights, Museums, Exhibition Halls 2005 |date=30 January 2010 |publisher=Vienna Tourist Board |access-date=23 September 2011 |archive-date=7 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007170827/http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/vienna-must-dos |url-status=dead }}</ref>

There are many popular sites associated with composers who lived in Vienna including [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven's]] various residences and grave at [[Zentralfriedhof]] (Central Cemetery) which is the largest cemetery in Vienna and the burial site of many [[Celebrity|famous people]], such as Johann Strauss I and II and [[Kurt Waldheim]]. [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] has a memorial grave at the Habsburg gardens and at [[St. Marx Cemetery]] (where his grave was lost). Vienna's many churches also draw large crowds, famous of which are [[St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna|St. Stephen's Cathedral]], the [[Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna|Deutschordenskirche]], the [[Jesuit Church, Vienna|Jesuitenkirche]], the [[Karlskirche]], the [[Peterskirche]], [[Maria am Gestade]], the [[Minoritenkirche (Vienna)|Minoritenkirche]], the [[Ruprechtskirche]], the [[Schottenkirche, Vienna|Schottenkirche]], [[St. Ulrich, Vienna|St. Ulrich]] and the [[Votive Church, Vienna|Votivkirche]].

Modern attractions include the [[Hundertwasserhaus]], the [[Vienna International Centre|United Nations headquarters]] and the view from the [[Donauturm]].