Palace · UNESCO
Schönbrunn Palace
Vienna, Austria
The Habsburg summer palace with ornate rooms and vast gardens, one of Vienna's top sights.
Food and drink · Austria · Vienna
Café Central
A grand Viennese coffee house in a vaulted hall, a classic for coffee and cake.
about 60 min
For storytellers
Why Café Central matters
Café Central is a vaulted, columned hall where Vienna's thinkers and writers once gathered. Order a melange coffee and a slice of cake and linger as long as you like. It's a living piece of the city's coffee house tradition.
Talking points
- Writers and thinkers used to meet here.
- Order a melange, the Viennese milky coffee.
- Queues form at busy times.
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