It too has a St Stephen's Basilica albeit larger and older than the one in Budapest. This one towers very high and it is not possible to capture its entirety.
These costumed gentlemen are ticket sellers to various concerts and musical events around the city. We went to one in the Palais Palffy and enjoyed it very much.
Three of us from the touring party in front of the Basilica.
Looking up at some of the spires of the Basilica.
Palais Ephrussi from the book The Hare with the Amber Eyes.
And this building is 4 Wohllebengasse from Good Living Street, another book of a Viennese Jewish family. This family was merely rich while the Ephrussis were mega-rich but both suffered from the Nazi persecution. For me, Good Living Street had special meaning because I actually knew and had played bridge with one of the main characters in the book Anne Bonyhady.
It gave me pleasure to be able to see both houses which featured in the two books.
Once again, the lure of beautiful buildings overcame me. This is another combination of us three in front of a very beautiful building the name of which I did not find out. It must have been a theatre or something like it surely.
This castle-like building is St Francis of Assisi Church.
A building with the statue of Johannes Gutenberg, as of the Gutenberg Press in front of it.
The painted steps of the Albertina Museum done in the style of one of Manet's lily ponds.
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