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Prater Description

The Prater, the large natural park between the Danube and the right-hand Danube Canal, is almost like another world. It is lively and exciting by day and something of a twilight zone by night. The park covers an area of some 1287ha/3,200 acres, stretching southeastwards almost 10km/6.5mi from the Prater crossroads through the former "Augebiet" to the end of the Prater. In the first section lies the so-called "Wurstel" or "Volk" Prater, with eating houses, dance halls, a giant wheel, roundabouts, switchback, dinosaur park and many other attractions.

Nearly every kind of sport is catered for in the Prater. There is riding in the Freudenau, trotting in the Krieau, swimming in the stadium pool, football in the Ernst Happel stadium

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Hobbies & Activities category: Amusement, theme or leisure park; Biking opportunity; Swimming & water activities; Historic site; Provincial or municipal park; Sports activity or museum; Stadium or sports facility

Prater Highlights

Exhibition Ground of the City of Vienna

East of the People's Park (Volksprater) lies the Exhibition Ground of the City of Vienna, with exhibition halls, pavilions and the 150m/492ft high Mannesmann Tower.

Maria-Grun Chapel

This little pilgrimage church in the Prater stands on the site once occupied by a forest shrine. The "Maria- Grün" (Madonna in Green) picture above the High Altar is an object of veneration. A

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Planetarium

The Vienna planetarium runs some guided tours of the facility.

Prater Constantin Hill

This hill in the Prater is man made from the soil dug out when the buildings for the 1873 Vienna Exhibition were erected, and was named after Franz Joseph's Chief Chamberlain, Constantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

Prater Dinopark

Built in 1993, the "Dinopark' in the Prater, with its electronically-operated dinosaurs in prehistoric surroundings provides a half an hour of fun for young and old alike (approach road No. 140).

Prater Miniature Railroad

The "Liliputbahn" miniature railroad in the Prater is driven partly by steam and partly by diesel, and covers a 4km/2.5mi stretch of line near the main avenue. It runs to the Stadium swimming pool and the Exhibition Ground in Vienna.

Prater Museum

The Prater Museum, situated at the beginning of the main avenue, documents the history of the Prater from a hunting reserve to the leisure park of today. The emphasis is on the history of clowns

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Prater People's Park

"The trees are in bloom again in the Prater ..."; when these words of the popular song by Robert Stolz become fact the "Volksprater" (People's Park) emerges from its winter sleep and the Giant

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Prater Pleasure House

The cafe-restaurant, the Pleasure House, at the end of the main avenue of the Prater was a summer retreat out in the country 400 years ago. Emperor Joseph II had it rebuilt by Isidor Carnevale in

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Prater Ziehrer Monument

This larger than life statue in Vienna's Prater of the composer C. M. Ziehrer (1843-1922) in Deutschmeister uniform was made by Robert Ullmann in 1960.

Praters Giant 'Ferris Wheel

The Giant Wheel in the Prater is an important Viennese landmark, providing a fine view over the city and awakening memories of the "Third Man" and the James Bond film "The Living Daylights". The

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