Brigittenau - 20th district

Brigitteanu is just a normal residential district in west part of Vienna, with no specific tourist attractions. But since year 2000 the district looks a lot more exciting from afar at least, since the Millennium City has been built, a huge shopping and entertainment complex that were completed just before the new millennium, crowned by Millennium Tower, Austria's tallest skyscraper, is the landmark. And the Danube riverbank is really nice, with views of Donaustadt.

Millennium Tower is 202 m tall to the top of the antennas and 171m to the roof, has 51 floors, and was completed in 1999 before the new millennium.

Millennium Tower is Austria's tallest building (Donauturm is taller but is not counted as a building).

The lead architect was Gustav Peischl. The tower works as an office building.

The area around Millennium Tower is a bit desolate and it is hard to reach the entrance of the mall as a pedestrian. The tower can only be reached from the inside of the mall.

So even if it looks good from the distance, it is not recommandable to walk around the building, since it is huge and you have to pass through several horribly ugly warehouses and garages.

Millennium City has about 100 stores and restaurants and houses the biggest cinema in Austria.

Merkur, a very fresh supermarket inside Millennium City.

Looking up Millennium Tower from inside the mall.

The riverbank of Danube is a good place to relax and you can see Donaustadt from Brigittenau.

A fast hoovercraft at Danube.

A normal street in Brigittenau. The area is not popular about the Viennese citizens, but is not that bad after all.