Baptismal Font

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Baptismal font in St. Katherine's Chapel. The font, completed in 1481, shows the twelve Apostles. Stephansdom Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "Adjacent is the Chapel of St. Catharine (1395), with good groined vaulting, a wooden crucifix of the 14th cent., and a fine late-Gothic font (1481) ."--Baedeker 1911 P1260128

Vienna Day 1

September 30th 2011
We left Budapest at 8:00 a.m. for Vienna. The coach followed the M1 motorway through Hungary and then picked up the A4 in Austria. The drive took us through the Little Hungarian Plain, an area of rolling countryside south of the Danube in Western Hungary. After a rest stop midway, we reached Vienna at about 11:20 a.m. There was a break or lunch on our own before meeting for a walking tour of centr ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more

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