Wien A Fine Art of Culture City

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I'm heading over next week-end. so excited to discover this beautiful city. when I see this get excited already. Hope to find some new places at Groupon soon!

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I was there this past week-end and it was great

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Vienna (play /viːˈɛnə/; German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital and largest city of the Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million[3] (2.4 million within the metropolitan area,[2] more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre.

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For centuries, Vienna has been home to great art collections. Members of the Imperial family and other Viennese aristocratic families were patrons, who both collected and commissioned great art from great artists. Some of these collectors and their respective prized collections were: the Counts of Harrach, the Esterhazy collection, the Schonborn-Buchheim collection, the Czernin, Lamberg, Metternich and Kaunitz collections and of course the Princes of Liechtenstein. Their passions covered a wide spectrum of arts and cultural genres and their respective periods.

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Architecture students in Vienna may opt to study at the prestigious University of Applied Arts, where they are likely to study the Burgkapelle, or Royal Chapel, which was built in the 13th century. The chapel was redesigned in the Gothic style in the 1400s.