![]() The annual Calle Libre street art festival focuses on one guiding theme as celebrated artists respond across curated walls for a week each summer. Street art murals line the streets and back alleys of Vienna especially along the banks of the Danube and its canals © EQRoy/ Shutterstock Street art It’s also one of the key locations for the annual Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) held over six weeks in May and June. ![]() Highlights include – including the Leopold Museum, MUMOK, Kunsthalle Wien, Architekturzentrum and Zoom but there are multiple micro-museums and creative spaces to explore. Have you had enough of culture yet? No? Good, because the MuseumsQuartier (MQ) is a 90,000 sq metre exhibition space encompassing 60 cultural institutions ranging from fine art, music, theatre, and dance to game culture, street art and photography. New-wave coffee houses are putting their own twist on the tradition. Many retain their opulent original decor, and often specialise in a particular cake, such as the Sacher Torte, an iced-chocolate cake with apricot jam once favoured by Emperor Franz Josef, at Café Sacher. ![]() Patronised by luminaries such as Mahler, Klimt, Freud, Trotsky and Otto Wagner in their day, Vienna's Kaffeehäuser (coffee houses) were added to the Unesco list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2011. Great works of art have been created in these 'living rooms' of the Viennese. © Krzysztof Dydynski/Lonely Plane Vienna’s coffee houses ![]()
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