The best-known castles and palaces in Vienna
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Vienna's list is mostly palaces, and most of them are within a kilometer or two of the center: the Hofburg, the Winterpalais (1697), Palais Schwarzenberg (1728), Palais Modena (1678), Palais Fürstenberg, the Unteres Belvedere and the Stadtpalais Liechtenstein. The Palais Liechtenstein (Gartenpalais), from 1688, is 2 km out. Further from the center are Schloss Schönbrunn (5 km), Schloss Neugebäude (1569, 7 km), Schloss Wilhelminenberg (7 km) and Schloss Hetzendorf (1694), 6 km from Perchtoldsdorf.
RLQuest knows 162 palaces and castles in Vienna, 119 of them with a Wikipedia article. Because so many stand within walking distance of each other, a single afternoon can cover more of this page than a week would elsewhere. In RLQuest each counts separately on first visit, and a city walk between palaces fills in tiles just as a hill climb does.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 110 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
