Vienna Architecture
Vienna, Austria, situated by the Danube River, has a mixture of architecture representing many periods and styles, ranging from elaborate Baroque-era monuments to a 20th century rejection of high-ornamentation. The history of Vienna, or Wien as it’s referred to locally, is as rich and complicated as the architecture that portrays it. The style of most of the finest secular buildings, such as the Harach and Kinsky palaces and the winter palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, is Baroque, Vienna’s leading architectural style during the 17th and 18th centuries. The vast complex of the Imperial Palace, the Hofburg (or Burg), lies along the Ringstrasse.
