Modern, innovative, unconventional: the Palais Hansen Kempinski. Living history meets modern lifestyle, which is also reflected in the architecture: Historic elements and contemporary design fuse with simple lines and clear colours.

On seven floors, there are 152 rooms and suites as well as 17 private penthouse residences. There are two restaurants, a bar and a cigar lounge for guests' wellbeing. The gourmet restaurant Edvard is awarded with a Michelin star and 16 Gault Millau points.

On the mezzanine level, Palais Hansen?s historic intermediate floor, there is the 800 sqm (8.611 sq ft) Kempinski The Spa. Hotel guests and day spa visitors alike will find a gym with Technogym equipment, six treatment rooms, a hydro pool, a steam room, and a bio-sauna with mixed and ladies-only areas.

Built between 1869 and 1873, the listed palais, located at the Ringstraße in the first district, is among the most important historic buildings in Vienna. Heinrich Förster and Theophil Edvard Hansen, who is known as one of the most important architects of the Ringstraße, were in charge of the planning. Theophil Edvard Hansen also built the Parliament, the Vienna Music Society, the ancient Stock Building, the Museum for Applied Arts and the Palais Epstein. As with many of Hansen's works, Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, watches over the building. Her statue on the roof of Palais Hansen is a reminder of Vienna's great victories, and her image in the hotel's logo is homage to the celebrated architect himself. With even more impressive buildings such as the stock building, the Parliament building or the Viennese city hall building the Ringstraße is one of the most beautiful boulevards in the world. In former times, it was a strolling promenade for the high society. Today, it is open for everyone ? and shows the diversity of Vienna. Fashionable clubs, lively festivals, modern architecture and trendy shops are just as much part of it as the Vienna State Opera, the concert halls, famous museums and nostalgic little shops. Next to the Danube River, the Viennese Ring became a hot spot for the young, urban scene.