For those who haven’t picked up on it yet, the famous Ringstraße (where the city wall used to be) is turning 150 on May 1st this year. I know I’ve been negligent about posting recently, but I will try to be better in the future. For the time-being, let me just share some figures that appeared in the Kurier today:
– 5.2 km long
– 57 m wide (I suspect with the grassy bits along the road itself)
– At one point there were 27 coffeehouses on the Ring. Off the top of my head, I can think of three famous ones–Landtmann, Schwarzenberg, and Prückel.
– There are over 2,000 trees along the Ring. 50 to 80 of them are renewed (whatever that might mean) per year.
– UNESCO declared the Ringstraße a Cultural Heritage Site in 2001.
More to follow as we get closer to the anniversary.
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