Hotel de France - Vienna, Austria 

Hotel de France details:  Built in 1872, this 5-star hotel is located on the elegant Ringstraße boulevard in the centre of Vienna. The air-conditioned rooms offer free wired internet access and free minibars.

Hotel de France’s elegant rooms feature satellite TV, a tea/coffee-maker, and an elegant bathroom with bathrobes, slippers, and hairdryer.

French cuisine and traditional Viennese specialities are served in the restaurant No.3. In summer, it features a sidewalk café. Japanese dishes are offered in the Daihachi Sushi Bar.

A large breakfast buffet with smoked salmon and sparkling wine is served on the restaurant’s upper floor. The de France’s stylish Atrium Bar features live piano music and offers views of the glass-covered atrium.

Guests can use the fitness room free of charge around the clock. Free Wi-Fi is available in public areas, and there is an underground car park with valet parking. Hotel de France also features a souvenir shop, and a cinema showing English-language movies is in the same building.

The Schottentor Underground Station (line U2) is only 50 metres away from de France Hotel.

The Hotel de France was built on the Schottenring part of Vienna's Ringstrasse in 1872 by the architects Franz Fröhlich and Anton Ölzelt. One year later, in 1873, a world exhibition took place in Vienna. To radiate an international ambience, the new hotel was named "de France", which at that time was considered to be chic and elegant.

In October 1876 Ölzelt attended a concert by Anton Bruckner in Klosterneuburg Monastery and was so impressed by his music that he offered him an apartment in the Hotel de France. Bruckner gratefully accepted the offer and stayed at the hotel until the summer of 1895. During this time he composed many of his most famous works.