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Peterskirche

Dome of St. Peter's Church - Peterskirche. Petersplatz. "A little to the N. of the Graben rises the Church of St. Peter, next to St. Ruprecht's the oldest church in Vienna, founded by Bishop Arno of Salzburg (790-803), and re-erected by Fischer von Erlach in 1702-13."--Baedeker 1909 P1260104
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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Austrian Flag 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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