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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Vienna
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Expected 2 Jan 79A sublimely beautiful city, Vienna emanates an indulgent elegance writ large in its monumental palaces, grand boulevards, shimmering ballrooms and decadent café culture. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you'll find your way around Vienna with absolute ease.
Our newly updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of Vienna into helpful lists of ten - from our own selected highlights to the best museums and galleries, places to eat and shops.
You'll discover:
- Eight easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day-trip, a weekend, or a week
- Detailed Top 10 lists of Vienna's must-sees, including detailed breakdowns of Stephansdom, the Hofburg, Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Belvedere, Karlskirche, MuseumsQuartier, Staatsoper, the Secession Building, Hundertwasserhaus and Schloss Schönbrunn
- Vienna's most interesting areas, with the best places for shopping, dining, and sightseeing
- Inspiration for different things to enjoy during your trip - including children's activities, things to do for free and unmissable experiences off the beaten path
- A free laminated pull-out map of Vienna, plus five colour neighbourhood maps
- Streetsmart advice: get ready, get around, and stay safe
- A lightweight format perfect for your pocket or bag when you're on the move
DK Eyewitness Top 10s are the UK's favourite pocket guides and have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 2002.
Staying for longer and looking for a more comprehensive guide? Try our DK Eyewitness Vienna or DK Eyewitness Austria.
Our newly updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of Vienna into helpful lists of ten - from our own selected highlights to the best museums and galleries, places to eat and shops.
You'll discover:
- Eight easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day-trip, a weekend, or a week
- Detailed Top 10 lists of Vienna's must-sees, including detailed breakdowns of Stephansdom, the Hofburg, Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Belvedere, Karlskirche, MuseumsQuartier, Staatsoper, the Secession Building, Hundertwasserhaus and Schloss Schönbrunn
- Vienna's most interesting areas, with the best places for shopping, dining, and sightseeing
- Inspiration for different things to enjoy during your trip - including children's activities, things to do for free and unmissable experiences off the beaten path
- A free laminated pull-out map of Vienna, plus five colour neighbourhood maps
- Streetsmart advice: get ready, get around, and stay safe
- A lightweight format perfect for your pocket or bag when you're on the move
DK Eyewitness Top 10s are the UK's favourite pocket guides and have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 2002.
Staying for longer and looking for a more comprehensive guide? Try our DK Eyewitness Vienna or DK Eyewitness Austria.
- GenresTravelNonfiction
160 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2003
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May 9, 2024
Don't leave home without it!
Do not go to Vienna without this book! I read this book before going and was able to get an idea of what Vienna was about, but when I arrived, this book did not leave my hands! This guide divides Vienna into sections. We set out our agenda according to sections in the book. The street-by-street map was invaluable and we were never lost. I am the worst with directions, but I knew exactly where I was during each day. With the maps, I easily navigated the entire city! The cutaways and guides to the various museums and attractions were also invaluable. We were able to walk into any attraction and know what the star features were and not have to miss a thing. We did not have to buy the extra tour books in each museum because our Eyewitness Guide gave us all the information we need and then some. Not only was I the navigator, but I was our personal tour guide. With the book, I was able to read out loud to my friend and tell him about everything we saw in Vienna. There were many other tourist with the Eyewitnes Guides in their hands and I was pleasantly surprised to see the book in so many different languages. A tourist even came up to me at the Schonbrunn Palace asking me where I got the book because she saw so many people with it, and she was disappointed when I said I got it in Canada because she was ready to pick up a copy immediately.
You can forget the credit cards, but DO NOT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT THIS ONE!
Paul Weiss
Do not go to Vienna without this book! I read this book before going and was able to get an idea of what Vienna was about, but when I arrived, this book did not leave my hands! This guide divides Vienna into sections. We set out our agenda according to sections in the book. The street-by-street map was invaluable and we were never lost. I am the worst with directions, but I knew exactly where I was during each day. With the maps, I easily navigated the entire city! The cutaways and guides to the various museums and attractions were also invaluable. We were able to walk into any attraction and know what the star features were and not have to miss a thing. We did not have to buy the extra tour books in each museum because our Eyewitness Guide gave us all the information we need and then some. Not only was I the navigator, but I was our personal tour guide. With the book, I was able to read out loud to my friend and tell him about everything we saw in Vienna. There were many other tourist with the Eyewitnes Guides in their hands and I was pleasantly surprised to see the book in so many different languages. A tourist even came up to me at the Schonbrunn Palace asking me where I got the book because she saw so many people with it, and she was disappointed when I said I got it in Canada because she was ready to pick up a copy immediately.
You can forget the credit cards, but DO NOT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT THIS ONE!
Paul Weiss
June 22, 2014
I would recommend this as an early-on read for someone who doesn't know much about Vienna or have a strong sense of what sort of things he or she likes to see and do when traveling. Someone going on their first trip abroad, perhaps -- Vienna is a good city for beginning travelers as it is easy to navigate, has a wide array of sights and activities, and many residents speak English. So, if you don't know what you want to do or are the sort of travelers who likes to check tourist attractions off on a list, this may be for you.
I didn't find it useful for planning as it gives little sense of how things relate to one another either spatially or historically. I would much rather know "What's the best cafe near this museum?" than "which are the ten best cafes?" (although as it happens I went to no cafes, so either was irrelevant). This gives no sense of what things might make sense to do on the same day, as a walk, for instance. Perhaps the idea is that one looks things up on one's hypothetical smartphone and then checks to see if they're in the book?
Unfortunately I accidentally packed this instead of the very useful Rough Guide to Vienna which I meant to bring. It does come with a removable pocket-sized map, which was the main use I got from it.
I didn't find it useful for planning as it gives little sense of how things relate to one another either spatially or historically. I would much rather know "What's the best cafe near this museum?" than "which are the ten best cafes?" (although as it happens I went to no cafes, so either was irrelevant). This gives no sense of what things might make sense to do on the same day, as a walk, for instance. Perhaps the idea is that one looks things up on one's hypothetical smartphone and then checks to see if they're in the book?
Unfortunately I accidentally packed this instead of the very useful Rough Guide to Vienna which I meant to bring. It does come with a removable pocket-sized map, which was the main use I got from it.
October 17, 2023
Is it bad that I mainly just took notes on coffee houses and where to eat cake?
December 20, 2018
As with all the Top 10 guides it proved to be informative and, almost as important, highly portable.
May 3, 2022
DK Travel Guides are always my go-to guides, and the pocket guides (for short City breaks) are ideal.
January 28, 2024
Great support prior to and during a recent trip to Vienna. Thanks for the information and recommendations.
April 27, 2025
I've read the Polish edition. It is alright, definitely useful. The bonus map is a nice touch :). However, overall, it is just too brief for me. I simply prefer travelogues.
March 3, 2017
A handy-sized guidebook to carry around with you. I only wish it had included details of day trips from the city, as other books in this series have done.
April 1, 2015
I've been to Vienna, and also a reader of lots full version and Top 10 Eyewitness traveling guides for various cities. This one is particularly informative and accurate - a bargain for the Kindle book price I paid for it, Definitely will be handy when I visit again this summer. My favorites were the sections on pastries and churches.
June 1, 2016
Decent travel guide. I am not the biggest fan of travel guides as I feel you can get a lot more information and up to date advice online. I only read travel books if I borrow them from the library.
November 30, 2016
Nice try. A top 10 list of many things. What makes the list? What classifies a place as a 5th or a 7th? Magic. At least tripadvisor is free with an adblocker.
October 13, 2014
Seems useful. Haven't been yet, so time will tell.
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