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Kissing the Clouds in Vienna's Prater

For unique views high above the city of Vienna you ought to fly up here in the famous Prater fun fair.

The Prater was once imperial hunting ground and only accessible for the aristocracy, until the Austrian Emperor Josef II donated the area to the Viennese in 1766 as a public leisure center. And since Emperor also allowed the establishment of restaurants and snack bars – small wonder that it didn’t take long until the precursors of today’s Wurstelprater appeared on the edge of the former aristocratic hunting grounds.

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Uploaded on September 5, 2011
Taken on August 20, 2011