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Park · Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Vienna

Prater

Prater · Wiener Prater

The Prater is a large public park and recreation area in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district, with meadows, woods, former arms of the Danube and the Hauptallee avenue, and with the Wurstelprater amusement area and the Giant Ferris Wheel as parts of it.

Why go

The Prater is a public park and recreation area in Leopoldstadt, Vienna's 2nd district. The Vienna Tourist Board's history page says the area appears in official documents as early as 1403 and that Emperor Joseph II gave it to the Viennese as a public leisure ground in 1766. Its page on the green Prater describes extensive meadows, woods and former arms of the Danube, and the Hauptallee, a 4.5-kilometre avenue between Praterstern and the Lusthaus, a former imperial hunting pavilion that is now a restaurant. The amusement area known as the Wurstelprater, with the Giant Ferris Wheel of 1897, is part of the Prater and is not described here. The map point is the middle of the green park as OpenStreetMap outlines it, not an entrance or a meeting point.

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City

Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is Austria's federal capital and, as the City of Vienna's own administration page puts it, also one of the country's federal provinces. XTOUR maps palaces, museums and churches inside the city, among them Schönbrunn Palace, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Belvedere and St. Stephen's Cathedral; Klosterneuburg, a separate municipality in Lower Austria, is not part of the city.

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