GRAND DANUBE RIVER CRUISE

	ROUTE A   Schwedenplatz - Reichsbrücke
	The Danube Canal - also called "Little Danube" flows 17 km through one part of the city of Vienna.
1	Tours of the three boats MS Schlögen, MS Vienna, and MS Vindobona start at the Schwedenplatz pier (U1 and U4 underground station of the same name)
2	The Urania observatory - built by Max Fabiani and opened in 1910 - today houses also a cinema, and a restaurant.
3	KunstHausWien - museum building re-designed by master painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
4	Gasometer - The Gasometer City consists of four intact gas containers of the formerly largest gas works in Europe. It was built into a city within the city featuring flats, shopping malls, restaurants, and offices, in 2003.
5	Lock Freudenau, Power Plant
6	First Buddhist pagoda in Europe
7	Ernst Happel Stadium - officially called Prater Stadium until 1992. Largest stadium in Austria.
8	Mexikoplatz - square with striking Francis of Assisi Church, also called Jubilee Church, built to celebrate Emperor Franz Joseph's fiftieth anniversary in 1898.
	ROUTE B   Reichsbrücke - Schwedenplatz
9	Reichsbrücke - only bridge crossing the Danube to survive the Second World War. Collapsed unexpectedly in 1976, and was rebuilt and reopened in 1980.
10	Donauinsel - artificial island, 21 km long, and most important and largest centre of recreation for the Viennese.
11	UNO-City and Donaucity the modern skyline of a growing city.
12	Danubetower - 252 m high and, at present, the highest building in town.
13	Milleniumtower - 202 m high, opened in 1999.
14	Nussdorf Lock - built by Otto Wagner around 1900 redesigned in 1966.
15	The two hills Kahlenberg (483 m) and Leopoldsberg (423 m) border the city in the north-west.
16	Thermal Waste Treatment Plant Spittelau - designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
17	Rossau Barracks - built from 1865 to 1869 in Windsor style, and, among others, headquarters of the traffic police
18	Vienna Ring Tower - features 23 floors, the first skyscraper in Vienna.
19	Passing Kaiserbad Lock and Lock House built in 1904 by Otto Wagner, the master architect.