What kind of information does the CIA World Fact book provide about Vienna? Let’s have a look:
 
 Name: Vienna
 Geographic coordinates: 48 12 N, 16 22 E
 Time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
 Daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
 
 And that’s it. Which is not much since Vienna is on of the most interesting places in the world. Due to the fact that famous composers as Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Mahler or Schönberg lived (and died) in this town, Vienna calls itself the musical capital of the world. Also modern music has its place in Vienna, just look the big Danube Island Festival attracting up to more than 2.000.000 visitors every year. This festival is an open-air, free music festival on the Donauinsel, which takes place usually in June every year. It seems that the Donauinselfest is Europe’s biggest open-air event.
 
 Let’s do some name-dropping, as we present a list of famous Viennese people. Looking at these names you might be surprised about who lived in that city. Let’s start with a small excerpt: Marie Antoinette, Maria Theresia, Alfred Adler, Ludwig Boltzmann, Falco, Friedrich Gulda, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, Hans Krankl, Hedy Lamarr, Fritz Lang, Niki Lauda, Lise Meitner, Sir Karl Popper, Arthur Schnitzler, Johann Strauss, Thomas Vanek, Otto Weininger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Joe Zawinul, and Fred Zinnemann.
 
 If you want to enjoy the endless offers of Vienna, you want to try and find an apartment here. Just enter “apartments Vienna” into any search engine, and you experience a vast list of apartments, mainly offered by private landlords. We recommend that you look for an apartment within the inner district of Vienna, thus you can reach many important sights by foot.