The Roof angle
The gilded balcony in its square from above — the composed shot.
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The City Tower is the Gothic lanes' balcony: a fourteenth-century watchmen's tower under its green Renaissance onion — 133 steps opening at 31 metres the best-composed angles of Innsbruck: the Golden Roof directly below in its square, the old town's coloured roofscape, the Nordkette towering behind, the Alpine chain in full circle. It is among Austria's cheapest platforms and densest in reward per stair — a half-hour visit at any walk's heart: the ascent literally between Hofburg and Roof. The winter sunset is its secret: snow on the peaks and lane lights kindling below at once.
The gilded balcony in its square from above — the composed shot.
Nordkette and the southern chains in full round.
Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 21, 6020 Innsbruck
The TrautsonhausA Gothic-era house in the old town carrying the name of the Trautson family, amo1 minute walk4.6
The HelblinghausThe Helblinghaus stands directly opposite the Golden Roof in the heart of the ol1 minute walk4.7
The Golden Roof & Old TownThe Golden Roof is Innsbruck's absolute symbol: a balcony of 2,657 gilded copper1 minute walk4.5
The BurgriesenhausA historic house on the Hofgasse in the old town, between the Golden Roof and th1 minute walk3.1
OttoburgA medieval residential tower on the bank of the Inn at the edge of Innsbruck's o1 minute walk4.0Two functions: the tower is the city from just above, lanes in detail; the Nordkette the valley from its mountain, in Alpine majesty. At five euros and thirty minutes the tower crowds nothing — take both.