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This very pleasant, airy café in the Museum for Applied Arts (see p42) offers Mediterranean-style food. There is also the usual range of coffees and cakes.

This rather heavy cake is made of high-calorie ingredients. Unlike most cakes which are baked, the Malakofftorte is simply set together with cream and sponge biscuits drenched in rum. In today’s health-conscious environment, the traditional butter cream is often substituted with a lower fat option.

Latin American influences and tasty combinations of meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. Mango is an essential ingredient to all the dishes.

Walking distance from the Stephansdom is this hotel with its welcoming atmosphere. The hotel has 18 rooms, some of them suitable for disabled people, and two large rooms with a kitchenette.

The Gothic church, constructed on the site of a former wooden chapel, has an impressively slim west front, 33 m (108 ft) high and only 10 m (30 ft) wide. The tower is crowned by a white, open stone helmet (1394–1414) that once served as a landmark for Danube mariners. In a state of decay in the late 18th century, it served as horse stables during the Napoleonic wars but was eventually restored in 1812.

Here you can find signs and posters that comprised some of the first-ever advertisements in Austria and around the world, as well as antique toys and striking glassware.

Maria Theresa (1740–80), known for her strong Catholic beliefs, modernized the empire by introducing many reforms.

Between the Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums is a statue of Empress Maria Theresa (1717–80). The German sculptor Kaspar von Zumbusch created the monument in 1888, presenting the empress on the throne surrounded by ministers and advisors, as well as composers such as Mozart.

After Kärtner Strasse and the Graben, this street is the city’s trendiest and most frequented shopping mile. Hundreds of shops and a few department stores offer fashion, books, music and electronic goods, while cafés, restaurants, ice cream parlours and cinemas abound. The shops are interspersed with two churches, Stiftskirche at the lower end and Mariahilf in the middle.

The city’s main shopping street is always bustling, but the wide pavements (sidewalks) offer lots of space and there are many cafés where you can stop to rest your feet (see p110).