Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
is Kärntner Strasse, an important pedestrian street that terminates at Karlsplatz, a major
public- transport hub.
The Danube runs down a long, straight channel, built between 1870 and 1875 to elim-
inate flooding. This was supplemented 100 years later by the building of a parallel chan-
nel, the Neue Donau (New Danube), creating the Donauinsel (Danube Island) recreation-
al area. The original Alte Donau (Old Danube) loops north of the Neue Donau to enclose
the Donaupark, Vienna International Center (UNO City, home to the UN), beaches and
water-sports centres. Squeezed between the Danube Canal and the Danube is the Prater, a
large park and playground of the Viennese.
In terms of addresses, Vienna is divided into 23
Bezirke
(districts), fanning out in ap-
proximate numerical order clockwise around the Innere Stadt. Note when reading ad-
dresses that the number of a building within a street
follows
the street name. The middle
two digits of postcodes correspond to the district. Thus a postcode of 1010 means the
place is in district one, and 1230 refers to district 23.
Information
EMERGENCY
24 hr)
European emergency number. The deaf can send an
Emergency number
(
112;
SMS to
0800 133 133 ( 0043 800 133 133 if roaming) with a message.
Police station
(
313 10; 10, Deutschmeisterplatz 3;
24hr)
Women's Emergency Line
(Frauennotruf;
71 719;
24hr)
MEDIA
Falter
(
www.falter.at
)
This weekly magazine is the best resource for political commentary and
entertainment listings in every genre imaginable, with an online version and lots of spe-
cialised publications, such as the
Wien, wie es isst
eating guide. Listings are from Friday
to Thursday. You can buy the print edition for €3.20 from newsagents, kiosks and sellers
around town.
MEDICAL SERVICES
For medical advice for visitors, call 0800 633 49 46. If you require a
Zahnarzt
(dent-
ist) after hours, call 512 20 78 (recorded message in German only); likewise if you
need an
Apotheken
(pharmacy) outside shop hours, dial
1455 (in German only).
Allgemeines Krankenhaus
( 404 000;
www.akhwien.at
; 09, Währinger Gürtel 18-20)
Hospital - emer-
gency rooms open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
