The latter clung to power for 640 years, from 1278 until 1918. I never tire of walking in Vienna, and never was a city easier to see by foot. At the heart lies the ancient Innere Stadt, or Inner City. The Ringstrasse, a wide boulevard decorated by a flock of monumental public buildings and parks, surrounds the core. This concession to foot traffic, seasoned by the clip-clop of fiacre horses, restores the sense of bustling human vitality that marked these same streets, under these same buildings, in former centuries.
Lesser streets remain open to traffic, but the flow is subdued.
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