It is one of the things that strikes you when you arrive in Vienna, just how spacious, open and airy it is!

So Vienna is one of the few Cities in the world where you never feel hemmed on all sides by tall buildings. It is almost as thought the original builders though "we'll build a park and put a few grand buildings in it here and there!"

That isn't to say that Vienna isn't just a little pompous, it sadly is. But then a City that is home to Mozart and has a style ratio of hundreds against other major Cities can be a little pompous if it jolly well likes surely!

It is just a shame that there are so many statues of fat Austrian Monarchs and their Large but Lovely Princesses, though maybe the City fathers should take some down because after you have seen the first dozen or so outside yet another beautiful grand baroque building you have seen them all!

Although of course that is not true there are so many more fat statues to discover outside of every building and of course hiding away inside as well just waiting to catch your eye!

As usual with major capital Cities there are just one or two or is that hundreds of places that you just mustn't miss, ok one or two was optimistic, but here are five places that 'thou shalt not miss!'

When you visit Vienna you have to Stephenansdom, known to the locals as "Steffi" or to us as "Little Stephen" this wonderful though rather dirty Cathedral is right in the centre of the City and can probably be forgiven its uncleanliness because it is not only Gothic, and let's face it Gothic can be awfully grubby, it is adorable.

You can't miss "Steffi's" S'dturm (the south tower) even if you wanted to it is 137m or 450ft high and was started in 1359 and only finished in 1433 and we are not talking hours in a 24 hour clock here, this amazingly tall building took 74 years to build so with so much to see you will be pleasantly surprised to find out that admittance is free.

After you have put your jaw back into place from gazing up at the S'dturm you can enjoy the splendour of the Hofburg, the incredibly large Imperial Palace of the Hapsburg Emperors and home to them for over 600 years.

Here is the home of the famous Spanische Reitschule (Spanish Riding School) with its Lipizzaner horses, the Vienna Boys Choir who sing Mass every Sunday. Even more impressive some would say, are the Austrian equivalent of the British Crown Jewels, but they are bigger and better than the British ones though the British ones don't have the 2,860 carat Colombian emerald for a start.

You need so much more than a few days to see even a small fraction of Vienna, when you have seen the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History), and close by the Museumsquartier and then the Schloss Sch?nbrunn you will still have more to take in and you mustn't forget to do some shopping in probably the best shopping district in Europe.

Staying in Vienna is great fun and that makes Vienna very popular with tourists, it is a year round tourist destination that gets particularly busy in the Spring, late Summer and of course at Christmas so be clever when you book your hotel and shop around for a bargain.

These days there is a great way to find the hotel that is exactly right for you and that is by using an hotel price comparison website, you might like to check out the site from BookingSpot first they come rather highly recommended.