The picture you know
Coloured houses on the river with the Nordkette rising right behind.
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On the north bank of the Inn facing the row of coloured houses, so the river, the houses and the Nordkette fall into one frame. The best time is the afternoon when sun lights the fronts, or at sunset when the mountain takes colour.
Yes, and it is what separates Innsbruck from any other European city: the Nordkette cable car starts near the centre and reaches over two thousand two hundred metres in about twenty minutes. You can have breakfast in the old town and stand on a summit before noon.
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A medieval residential tower on the bank of the Inn at the edge of Innsbruck's old town, among the oldest buildings surviving there. It dates to roughly the fifteenth century and formed part of the city's defences at the bridge โ and the bridge is the origin of Innsbruck's own name, meaning the bridge over the Inn. This building therefore stands at the point the city grew around. Its shape is distinctive: a square mass with small corner turrets and a pointed roof, one of few surviving examples of fortified residential building in Tyrol. The building today is a restaurant, and there is nothing inside to visit as a monument. What you do is look at it from outside, and that takes a few minutes. Its position is ideal for photographs: it stands among the coloured houses on the riverbank with the Nordkette range directly behind, and that is the view you know from pictures of Innsbruck.
Coloured houses on the river with the Nordkette rising right behind.
A fortified residential tower of roughly the fifteenth century.
The bridge beside it is what Innsbruck was named after.
By the Inn bridge, edge of the old town