A police officer stands guard at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, during the 8th Opec international seminar in 2023. Max Slovencik / EPA Egisto Ott is no James Bond. But the stories the ...

Austrian capital mulls expanding tram network and park-and-ride car parks in effort to reduce private vehicle use When Leonore Gewessler hops on the underground trains and street-level trams that run ...

JTA — Since the end of World War II, Vienna has functioned as an Ellis Island for Jewish refugees from Europe and the Middle East, a place where survivors, dissidents and religious minorities arrived ...

VIENNA — The removal of a statue of an antisemitic former Vienna mayor to renovate it and then replace it at an angle drew protests this week. The statue in downtown Vienna of Karl Lueger, who ...

His waltzes were a hit from Russia to the US — and female fans swooned over him. And yet, there was also a darker side to Johann Strauss, who is being celebrated in a series of performances in Vienna.

Designed for the 1873 Vienna World's Fair, the Anantara Palais Hansen is located on the Schottenring of the Ringstrasse near the Danube canal. Photo Credit: Anantara Hotels & Resorts When you walk ...

On Friday evening, just before Shabbat, in the city where Adolf Hitler absorbed his genocidal antisemitism, I was assaulted by a mob of Islamist, pro-Hamas, Israel-hating thugs. My crime? Wearing a ...

As The Lost Baker of Vienna begins, Aron Rosenzweig, an elderly Holocaust survivor, dies in Raleigh, North Carolina. Aaron has left Zoe, his granddaughter – who he helped raise after her parents died ...

Non-destructive scans released in late June show the Imperial‐Treasury spearhead is a Carolingian weapon later re-branded as the biblical Spear of Destiny. A Vienna research team has published the ...

Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right When it comes to best-practice examples in the housing debate, Vienna is a ...

Travel + Leisure readers appreciated a certain style in the Vienna hotels they voted for in this year’s “World’s Best Awards”: Sophisticated interiors and grand, historic buildings are notable themes.

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