This is the Fine Arts Museum, just outside and south of the old city. It is symbolic of today because I spent about 12 hours wandering the city, seeing most of the interesting buildings and museums. Unlike yesterday's pre-informed random wanderings, there was some method here - I'll just mention some highlights.

First the church on the previous card, St. Stephens, much darker and dirtier than on the card, but still very impressive. What you can't see in the card is that the buildings are packed quite closely around it so you can't get a very good view of it (but not as bad as others I've seen).

The Imperial Palace, surrounding buildings, and grounds. Quite difficult to maneuver because the buildings go out in all directions and they're doing some repairs. Includes the palace gates, the palace itself, and the spanish riding school, a huge indoor riding arena. The palace was the main residence of the Hapsburgs; now it is a museum, featuring collections of armor and weapons upstairs, and romaniche ruins (from Asia Minor) downstairs. Some of the armor was pretty impressive: built for children, dwarves, fat people, and sometimes with scary faces molded into the masks. Some also had armored penis canisters projecting from the loins (girded?).

The Burg Theatre (next card) has an impressive semicircular set of columns, and a nice view of the City Hall (Rathaus) (card 2).

Then, marching southward down the ring we come to the Parliament building, an impressive building with columns in front, two curved ramps swinging up from the sides, and a nice statue in front.

Strolling on along the Ring we next see two buildings identical to the one on this card, facing towards each other. One contains the Natural History Museum; the other contains Fine Arts (quite capital). It is a great collection, with rooms full of Reubens, Titians, Rembrandts and plenty that I can't remember right now. The Natural History Museum had some big bugs.

Near the St. Charles Church (non sequitur) is the Vienna Historical Museum which wasn't too good because it was all in German, but they did have a large collection of original drawings by Otto Wagner, a great 1900's architect.