Travel Reference
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the Landhausviertel is anything but, and is aimed firmly at bureaucrats from the nearby
Landtag and culture managers who come here to finger their devices and 'touch base'.
The food is Italo-Austrian and can be picked at indoors or on the terrace overlooking the
Traisen River.
Backwerk
BAKERY
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(Kremser Gasse 19; snacks €0.79-2.50; 7am-6pm Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm Sat)
The St Pölten branch of this
German bakery is the place to put together a euro-watching lunch on the run.
Restaurant Galerie
(Fuhrmannsgasse 1; mains €18.50-28.50, 4-course menu €35.50-57.50; lunch & dinner Mon-Fri)
Galerie
serves delicious, if exceedingly pricey, Viennese cuisine and has a great wine list, espe-
cially for Italian and French vintages. Although Wiener Schnitzel isn't on the menu, it's
always available if you ask nicely.
AUSTRIAN
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Cinema Paradiso
CAFE
(Rathausplatz 14; 9am-1am)
Supercentral trendoid spot for mulling over a paper or
something heart-pumping. True to its name, it's also an art-house cinema.
Information
Post office
(Wiener Strasse 12)
Tourist office
(
353 354;
www.st-poelten.gv.at
; Rathausplatz 1;
8am-5pm Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm Sat, 10am-5pm
Sun, closed Sat & Sun Nov-Mar)
Getting There & Away
St Pölten has good road connections: the east-west A1/E60 passes a few kilometres south
of the city and the S33 branches north from there, bypassing St Pölten to the east, and
continuing to Krems.
Trains run around three times an hour from Vienna Westbahnhof to St Pölten (€12, 30
minutes). There are also hourly direct trains to Krems (€7.60, 45 minutes), twice hourly
