at number two. of the as an interesting city and did very well with our ranking partly because this is a city that was built right the first time if you rewind over a century you have a city which actually a bigger population out they the story of the twentieth century than it does at the start of the twenty first so it s right size it is it allows its citizens to breathe a little. in one hundred sixteen vienna had more than two point two million residents today it has around one point eight million the city is famous for its relaxed atmosphere there are more buildings from the late one thousand nine hundred than paris budapest open in and the historical old center unesco world heritage site still shows the former glory of the austrian hungary an empire. vienna is a city of contrasts its landmark affects in stephen s cathedral is married in the