There’s no finer way to mark today’s Canada Day than to find the Canadian Embassy 🇨🇦 in the Austrian capital city. It’s all part of my walk through the Inner City, starting at U1/U4 Schwedenplatz and ending near U2/U3 Volkstheater.
Vienna’s historic city centre was inscribed onto the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001, but its status was put onto the Danger list in 2017 with plans (threats?) for development.
It’s 501am and 801am in Vancouver and Toronto, respectively. But here in Vienna, I completed food shopping for the next few days. I’m about to have lunch, after which is some time in the inner city. “3” (Drei) is Austria’s third largest mobile carrier after A1 and Magenta Telekom. Naturally, all temperatures are in degrees Celsius.
While the building has multiple tenants, the uppermost floor is occupied by the Government of Canada with its embassy (Botschaft).
The flag pole is attached to the wall with a metal plate in the shape of a maple leaf.
Summertime shop for Eis Greissler (Greissler’s Ice Cream).
Their flavours for the day 🍨😋
At Stephansplatz, the northwest corner of St. Stephen’s Cathedral (near the cathedral model) has on its wall a small rectangular plaque whose text inscription is almost entirely faded.
This plaque dates to 1945 when Soviet troops had moved into the city and checked building by building. The two words in Cyrillic are: квартал проверен (kvartal proveren), “Häuserblock geprüft”, building checked. There are at least 2 more Soviet inscription-plates like this appearing elsewhere in Vienna.
Steiff: it’s not only about teddy bears 🧸 so how about Riddler bear, Bat-bear, and Elton John bear. At lower-left is a more modest-sized bear holding a little red heart 🫶🏽
מוּזֵיאוֹן “Museum“, 2011 light installation by artist Brigitte Kowanz for the Jewish Museum Vienna.
Bräunerstrasse, west towards Josefsplatz.
“Henry: the art of living”, at Billa Corso Michaelerplatz.
Hofburg Palace, from Michaelerplatz.
“Volkspartei, Volksgarten”
“Island” platform for U-Bahn U3 (orange) station Volkstheater. This is also a junction station with the U2 line (purple).
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 1 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
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