Vienna Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
capital of and state in Austria
About Vienna
The low-lying Danube plain in and around what is now Vienna has had a human population since at least the late Paleolithic (seePrehistoric Europe); one of the city's most famous artifacts, the 24,000-year-oldVenus of Willendorf,now in Vienna's Natural History Museum, was found nearby. Vienna's own recorded history began withthe Romans,who founded it in the 1st century CE asVindobona,one of a line of Roman defensive outposts against Germanic tribes. Vindobona's central garrison was on the site of what is now the Hoher Markt (the "High Market" so-called because of its relative height over the Danube), and you can still see astounding excavations of its foundations there today. Given its prestige, Vienna hosted theHabsburg courtfor several centuries, first as the Imperial seat of the Holy Rom
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