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Article: Vienna's world-class music, opera and architecture lure visitors time and again.(Travel)
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- The Boston Herald
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- August 8, 2002
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VIENNA - Austria's vibrant capital just gets better and better. Even if you visited Vienna last year, new delights await, including a couple of refurbished old favorites. Though compact enough to be explored on foot, this classic jewel on the Danube River is a swirling kaleidoscope of central European history. Blink and you'll miss a whole era.
Despite the pounding it took during World War II, Vienna remains an architectural gem. Everywhere you look, delicate Gothic spires vie for attention with lavish, baroque palaces and sleek, early 20th century art nouveau public buildings. Walking past the grand neo-Renaissance structures on ...