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Vienna offers exquisite music, architecture and art (and even more perfect cake and coffee) in formats that are low-budget enough for everyone to explore, as long as they have the inside knowledge about the best things to do in Vienna. Pick one or two staples to splash out on -- a good hotel room, for example -- and then let the best things to do in Vienna fill you time in inexpensive comfort.
Buy a Wien Karte (Vienna Card), and you'll automatically receive a coupon book which entitles you to discounted entrance fees for some two hundred attractions, including some of the best things to do in Vienna, plus money off guided tours, shopping, restaurant bills and theatre and concert tickets. It's almost worth it even without its main purpose of providing full 72-hour access to the various public transport services -- which is how you can get between all the best things to do in Vienna. If the weather's good, you can rent a bicycle to get between the best things to do in Vienna. If you really love it, you can extend the idea all the way to Prague along the beautiful Greenways Cycle Path Network.
The Nashcmarkt, is one of the places you should travel to: one of the best things to do in Vienna. Started in the 16th century, it's a 1.5 kilometre-long stretch of shops and outdoor stalls selling more food than you could experiment with if you lived in Vienna forever. If you don't mind crowds, come on a Saturday and browse the flea market whilst snacking -- even for locals it's one of the best things to do in Vienna.
Those on the hunt for all things cheap and tasty will also be pleased to discover the food stalls in the Rathauspark, at Christmas it's one of the best things to do in Vienna -- but in warmer weather, the lack of gingerbread and mulled wine is easily compensated for by the free, outdoor-screened Sunday night classical concerts.
For the price of a Melange (Viennese coffee) you can just as easily relax indoors and watch a free piano recital. Often full of tourists but rightfully famous is the 17th century Café Central, with its vaulted ceilings, life-altering cakes and long-departed patrons, who included Leon Trotski and Sigmund Freud -- they all agreed it's one of the best things to do in Vienna.
Just steps away from the Central is the imposing Stephansdom with its legendary crying Madonna icon. Hofburg Imperial Chapel, where the Vienna Boys' Choir and State Orchestra sing an internationally feted Mass every Sunday morning for most of the year is also free to stand in, and definitely one of the best things to do in Vienna.
The best things to do in Vienna relating to art is easily balanced by the best things to do in Vienna relating to nature in Vienna's beautifully kept green spaces. The Wiener Prater, for example, is a strikingly elegant location for a nap in the summer sun or a wander through snowy, tree-lined avenues -- and entrance to the adjacent amusement park (where you'll find Harry Lime's Ferris Wheel) is also free, and one of the best things to do in Vienna for film fans.
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