Send Flowers to Vienna, Austria

Vienna is a city of numbered districts, and every Viennese address belongs to one. The first is the historic centre inside the Ringstrasse. The second to ninth form a ring of elegant apartment quarters such as Leopoldstadt, Wieden, Mariahilf, Neubau and Josefstadt, and beyond the Gürtel lie Favoriten, Ottakring, Hietzing near Schönbrunn, the wine villages of Döbling and, across the Danube, Floridsdorf and Donaustadt. The middle two digits of the four-digit postcode give the district.

Most homes are flats, and the Viennese write addresses in a compact form, with house number, staircase and door number separated by slashes. Copy this exactly, including the Stiege (staircase) if there is one, because large buildings and the famous municipal housing complexes of the city can have many entrances. For patients at the General Hospital, the AKH, give the ward and full name.

As the seat of United Nations offices, OPEC and other international organisations, the Austrian capital has a large foreign community, and many Austrians abroad send flowers home. To send flowers to Vienna, order before midnight local time for delivery the next day, Monday to Saturday. Sundays and public holidays are not served. Ball season in January and February, Mother's Day in May and All Saints' Day are the busiest moments for local florists.

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