Self-guided walking tour
Vienna Walking Tour: North of the Ring – Medicine, Stairs and Red Vienna (about 1.5 hours, 5 stops)
5 stops in walking order through Vienna, from Josephinum to Karl-Marx-Hof: 5.2 km on foot, about 1 h 1 min of walking, 1 h 20 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “North of the Ring: Medicine, Stairs and Red Vienna”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.
- Total
- 1 h 20 min
- Distance
- 5.2 km
- Walking
- 1 h 1 min
- Stops
- 5
The stops, in walking order
Josephinum
A former medical and surgical academy whose buildings now house the Medical University of Vienna’s Institute for the History of Medicine.
6 min walk · 520 m
Narrenturm
A circular building commissioned by Emperor Joseph II as a psychiatric institution.
9 min walk · 720 m
Strudlhofstiege
An outdoor staircase in Vienna combining Jugendstil architecture with a memorable literary history.
21 min walk · 1.7 km
Müllverbrennungsanlage Spittelau
Spittelau is a working waste-incineration plant transformed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s artistic facade.
26 min walk · 2.2 km
Karl-Marx-Hof
A monumental municipal housing complex designed by Karl Ehn and associated with Red Vienna.
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