Meet your guide behind the Maria-Thersien-Platz with a yellow Prime Tours Umbrella! Between National Art and the National History museum. Stop at the Minotaur sculpture on the MQ forecourt and get to know a secret Street Art Passage and hidden Art!
Next, head to Spittelberg, the most beautiful Biedermeier quarter in the city, and somehow still the best-kept secret in central Vienna. Walk along cobblestones, admire painted facades, and see courtyards that feel like a village pressed into a city block.
Continue to Burggasse and the 7th District, the lifeblood of Neubau. Pass independent coffeehouses, vintage shops, and the kind of street where you would actually want to live. Stop where the locals stop.
Next, see the Justizpalast and Schmerlingplatz, where the July Revolt of 1927 happened. Eighty-nine people died, the building burned, and Austrian democracy began its long unravel.
Take a break at Palais Auersperg, one of Vienna's most beautiful private palaces. Use the restrooms, grab some water, or enjoy a coffee.
Continue to Piaristengasse and the Piaristenkirche, arguably the most beautiful baroque church in Vienna. Admire frescoes by Maulbertsch.
Finally, head to Lange Gasse to see Gründerzeit townhouses, a proper Grätzl atmosphere, and the kind of light Vienna gets in the late afternoon that explains why painters keep moving here. Finish at the fron of Votiv Kirche, the church many refer as the 2nd St. Stephens Cathedral! From here you are five minutes from the U-Bahn and ten minutes from anywhere you want to be next.
