Stadtpark of Vienna in Autumn

The Stadtpark of Vienna is the green lung of the city center. It was inaugurated in 1862 to redesign the so-called Glacis, the previously abandoned area in front of the dismantled city walls of Vienna. The sight was planned in the English landscape style and architecturally enriched around 1900 when the Wienfluss, a river going through the park, was finally regulated and the City Railway was built. You see the river in the second picture and the modern iteration of the City Railway, our Metro line number 4, in the third picture. It always amazes me how this piece of artificial nature can snatch you from the urban madness of a concrete jungle and calm you down almost immediately, may it be just for a couple of minutes. A green lung, truly.