Hofburg Palace
The Hofburg is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. Located in the center of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century by Ottokar II of Bohemia and expanded several times afterwards.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Administrative facility
- Description: palace located in Vienna, Austria
- Also known as: “Hofburg”
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include State Hall of the Austrian National Library and Heldenplatz.
State Hall of the Austrian National Library
Museum
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The Austrian National Library is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of Vienna. State Hall of the Austrian National Library is situated 160 metres east of Hofburg Palace.
Heldenplatz
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Heldenplatz is a public space in front of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. Located in the Innere Stadt borough, the President of Austria resides in the adjoining Hofburg wing, while the Federal Chancellery is on adjacent Ballhausplatz.
Albertina
Museum
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The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings. Albertina is situated 290 metres southeast of Hofburg Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint Ulrich and Bermudadreieck.
Josefstadt
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Josefstadt is the 8th district of Vienna. It is bounded on the north side by Alser Straße, by the "2er Linie" on the east, Lerchenfelder Straße on the south, and the Gürtel on the west.
Hofburg Palace
- Categories: castle, château, palace, official residence, tourist destination, museum, and government building
- Location: Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hofburg Palace” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hofburg”
- Arabic: “هوفبورغ”
- Aragonese: “Hofburg”
- Aragonese: “Palacio de Hofburg”
- Aragonese: “Palacio Imperial de Hofburg”
- Armenian: “Հոֆբուրգ”
- Azerbaijani: “Hofburq sarayı”
- Basque: “Hofburg jauregia”
- Basque: “Hofburg”
- Belarusian: “Гофбург”
- Belarusian: “Хофбург”
- Bosnian: “Hofburg”
- Bulgarian: “Хофбург”
- Catalan: “Hofburg”
- Catalan: “Palau d’Hofburg”
- Catalan: “Palau de Hofburg”
- Chinese: “賀夫堡”
- Chinese: “霍夫堡”
- Chinese: “霍夫堡皇宮”
- Croatian: “Hofburg”
- Czech: “Hofburg”
- Danish: “Hofburg”
- Dutch: “Hofburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هوفبورج”
- Esperanto: “Hofburg”
- Esperanto: “Hofburgo”
- Estonian: “Hofburg”
- Finnish: “Hofburg”
- French: “Hofburg”
- French: “Palais de la Hofburg”
- French: “Palais du Hofburg”
- Georgian: “ჰოფბურგი”
- German: “Hofburg Wien”
- German: “Hofburg”
- German: “Wiener Burg”
- German: “Wiener Hofburg”
- Greek: “Χόφμπουργκ”
- Hebrew: “הופבורג”
- Hungarian: “Hofburg”
- Ido: “Hofburg-palaco”
- Indonesian: “Hofburg”
- Irish: “Pálás Hofburg”
- Italian: “Hofburg”
- Japanese: “ホーフブルク宮殿”
- Japanese: “ホーフブルク王宮”
- Korean: “호프부르크 왕궁”
- Korean: “호프부르크”
- Latin: “Palatium Imperiale”
- Latvian: “Hofburga”
- Lithuanian: “Hofburgas”
- Luxembourgish: “Hofburg”
- Macedonian: “Хофбург”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hofburg”
- Norwegian: “Hofburg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hofburg”
- Persian: “قصر فافبرگ”
- Persian: “هافبرگ”
- Persian: “هفبورگ”
- Polish: “Hofburg”
- Portuguese: “Hofburg,”
- Portuguese: “Hofburg”
- Portuguese: “Kaiserhof”
- Portuguese: “Palácio Imperial de Hofburg,”
- Portuguese: “Palácio Imperial de Hofburg”
- Romanian: “Curtea de la Viena”
- Romanian: “Hofburg”
- Romanian: “Palatul Hofburg”
- Romanian: “Palatul Imperial Hofburg”
- Russian: “Дворец Хофбург”
- Russian: “Хофбург”
- Scots: “Hofburg Pailace”
- Scots: “Hofburg Palace”
- Serbian: “Hofburg”
- Serbian: “Хофбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hofburg”
- Slovak: “Hofburg”
- Slovenian: “Hofburg Wien”
- Slovenian: “Hofburg”
- Slovenian: “palača Hofburg”
- Spanish: “Hofburg de Viena”
- Spanish: “Hofburg”
- Spanish: “Palacio de la Corte Imperial de Viena”
- Spanish: “Palacio Imperial de Hofburg”
- Swedish: “Hofburg”
- Tatar: “Һофбург”
- Thai: “พระราชวังฮอฟบูร์ก”
- Thai: “พระราชวังโฮฟบวร์ค”
- Turkish: “Hofburg İmparatorluk Sarayı”
- Ukrainian: “Гофбург”
- Ukrainian: “Гофбурґ”
- Vietnamese: “Hofburg”
- Welsh: “Hofburg”
- Welsh: “Palas yr Hofburg”
- Welsh: “Plasty Hofburg”
- Yue Chinese: “賀夫堡”
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