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Karlskirche
A Baroque church with a great green dome and two triumphal columns, dedicated to St Charles Borromeo.
- Editor's score
- 4.6
- Visit
- 45 min
- Price
- €€
About
Emperor Charles VI vowed to build the church during the plague of 1713, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach designed it. Its dome and the two spiral-carved columns inspired by Trajan's Column in Rome make a striking facade, and a panoramic lift rises inside the dome to the frescoes.
Best time to go: Visit in the evening when the dome is lit and reflected in the pool on Karlsplatz.
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