Vienna's Ringstrasse. Franz Joseph I, emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, began creating the Ringstrasse in the 1850s, and work continued for four decades. The Ringstrasse is a road that forms a ...

Can a ring road be a thing of beauty? Not if it’s the concrete tunnels of the Paris Periphique, the semi-permanent parking lots that are London’s Circulars or the dreary stretch of blacktop known as ...

PHOTO: In the winter, life inside Vienna's Ringstrasse takes on a festive spirit. (Photos courtesy of Austrian Tourism Board) Next year, Vienna will be celebrating the 150 th anniversary of its ...

The name of Vienna’s former mayor Karl Lueger was finally expunged from a section of the city’s main boulevard, the Ringstrasse, in July 2012. Lueger was a modernizer who, at the end of the 19th ...

After the early Vienna election and the renewal of the SPÖ-NEOS coalition, the city government is now focusing on central projects of the government program. The planned redesign of the Ringstraße and ...

Vienna is one of central Europe's largest metropolises. Although they are often referred to numerically, each bezirke, or neighborhood, has its own name. The numbers climb as you stray farther from ...

Vienna’s Ringstrasse, the area that boasts some of the city’s most storied architecture, will mark its 150th anniversary in 2015 with a number of special events and exhibits. Examples include the ...

A Bugatti Chiron worth more than €3 million (approximately $3.2 million) has been seized by Austrian authorities after the driver was caught speeding at more than double the legal limit through the ...