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This elegant shopping centre is Vienna’s most expensive retail area, with designer clothes as well as jewellery and gourmet food. The shops are interspersed with cafés and restaurants.

Just outside the Land-strasser Hauptstrasse metro station is the small Rochus market. Some 30 permanent stalls offer mainly fruit, vegetables, flowers and fresh meat, but on Saturdays the lively Rochusmarkt increases to almost double the size, when farmers from further afield also come to offer their delectable homegrown crops.

Early houses were built by the Roman garrisons.

Remains of the Roman camp Vindobona (see p40) can be seen at this underground museum. Excavations show archaeological finds such as pottery and coins.

The original Ronacher, built in 1870, staged tragedies and comedies, but after it burned down in the 1880s architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer replaced it with a variety theatre. Neglected after World War II, the Ronacher reopened in 1988 with the musical Cats .

These huge barracks dominating the river bank were created to protect Vienna from attacks from outside the city as well as revolt from within, after the revolutions that took place across Europe in 1848. Together with two other military camps, the Rossauer base formed a strategic triangle. Work on the barracks, which were created in Windsor style, started in 1864 and was completed six years later. The barracks became the headquarters of the Vienna police after World War II.

Music is the speciality of this bar, with Viennese artists playing everything from rock to pop, funk and soul, every Monday to Thursday.

This restaurant with red seating and red panelling on the walls offers a great selection of Austrian dishes and wines.

If staying up all night is your thing, head to Roxy, which opens when most other places in the city close. With live DJ music in a relaxed bar atmosphere, there is also a dance floor.

Rudolf (1273–91) began the Habsburg rule in Austria.