Only in Vienna by Duncan J.D. Smith

3 Contents Contents Introduction 6 THE INNER CITY (Innere Stadt: 1 st District) 1 On Beethoven’s Bastion 8 2 Harry Lime’s Doorway 10 3 Turkish Delights 12 4 Court of the Babenbergs 14 5 The Lucky Chimney Sweep 16 6 Vienna Subterranea 18 7 The Sign of the Black Camel 21 8 The Clockmakers’ Quarter 23 9 Out of the Depths I Cry to You 25 10 The Danube Boatmen’s Church 27 11 The Fountains of Vienna 29 12 The Summer House Frescoes 31 13 The Ruins of Roman Vindobona 33 14 An Infamous Address 36 15 Refuge for an Architect 39 16 The Story of Coffee 41 17 Pedestrians Beware! 43 18 A Renaissance Rarity 45 19 Cathedral Curiosities 47 20 Mozart Passed this Way 50 21 Atlases and Caryatids 53 22 Secret St. Virgil‘s Chapel 56 23 The Snake’s Tongue Poison Detector 59 24 The Knights of Blood Alley 61 25 The World’s First Fitted Kitchen 63 26 Last of the Old Walls 66 27 The Only City Vineyard 70 28 Where the Wurst is Best! 72 29 The Comfort of Strangers 74 30 Vienna Made to Measure 76 31 Vienna at your Convenience 78 32 Some Courtyards and Squares 80