Austria - Vienna and Salzburg
Day 6 - We drove from Budapest to Vienna. Vienna was once the center of the mighty Hapsburg Empire. Upon arrival, we went on a city tour with a drive along the elegant Ringstrasse . Vienna's Ringstrasse or The Ring Road is 5.3 kilometers long, where the Vienna State Opera, the Parliament, City Hall, and many more buildings built in the second half of the 19th century that were mostly architectural masterpieces. We went down from the bus to walk from Hofburg Palace (wish we went inside the palace), which used to be inhabited by the imperial family, and today houses the office of the President of Austria. We walk through Heldenplatz or the Heroes Square, the name is based on the two magnificent horseman monuments created in 1860 nad 1865. The last stop of our city tour is St. Stephen's Cathedral or in German, Stephansdom. It is the mother churh of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and is one of the most important Gothic structures in Austria today. The roof i