Plague Column (Pestsaule) Vienna

... to visit the belvedere palaces, where there is the most amazing collection of gustav klimt <3 soooo talented then saw the plague column and the central cemetery where brahms beethoven and schubert are buried. not too shabby..i reallly love this city! ...

... money on a real guidebook about Vienna at a bookstore and went down Graben (super high end shopping pedestrian street) towards the Plague Column. I love this thing. Built to mark the end of the plague, it rises four stories high, covered in statues ...

... some of the Lipizzaner horses after their exercises and guided them across the street to their stables. We saw the Plague Column. Many other columns like this where erected all over Austria after this one. The purpose of these columns was to ...

... use so we took it into the city and did a self guided walk and checked out the opera house, St. Stephens church, the plague column, a pedestrian shopping street and the Hofburg palace. St.Stephens church has a colored roof with green, yellow, white, and ...

... reminds me of the roofs in Beaune. I can’t remember the order in which we saw stuff, but here’s what we saw. The plague column was put up by one or other of the Habsburg emperors after he begged God to save the city from the bubonic plague in ...

... , fine dining, expensive shops and vibrant street life.  In the middle of the pedestrian is the extravagant Holy Trinity plague column.  The 60 foot pillar is covered with angels, the Holy Trinity and other religious figures.  The monument ...