Türkenschanzpark and the Cottageviertel
A hilly English park with a view tower, then the villa streets of old Währing and Döbling. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Währinger Straße-Volksoper (U6)
Start where the U6 surfaces. Walk north-west up through Währing; the streets tilt and green almost at once. You're climbing out of the dense city towards the park, which is the right direction for a morning.

2. Türkenschanzpark
The hilly English-style *Park*, laid out 1888 on the old Turkish siege earthworks the name remembers. Winding paths, a pond and a waterfall, level changes most Vienna parks don't have. Cross it diagonally rather than along the edge — the interior is where it earns its reputation.

3. Paulinenwarte
The brick view tower at the park's high point, 1888. Climb it when it's open for the look back over the rooftops to the city and out to the Vienna Woods. If the door's shut, the terrace around its base still gives you most of the view.

4. The Cottageviertel
Out the park's east side into the villa quarter that spreads across Währing and Döbling — large 19th-century houses behind garden walls, a deliberately un-Viennese street pattern borrowed from the English idea of a 'cottage'. Slow down; the pleasure is the gardens over the fences and the quiet.

5. Sternwartepark wall
Skirt the wall of the old observatory grounds nearby — the Sternwarte sits in its own arboretum, mostly closed to the public but the perimeter trees are part of the leafiness. A reminder this whole hillside was the city's genteel edge.

6. Gersthof (S45)
Drop north-west to Gersthof and the S45 city railway back in. A small, calm station for a walk that's been all gardens and slopes. If you've an hour spare, the cafés along Gersthofer Straße are the local kind, not the tourist kind.

Türkenschanzpark and the Cottageviertel