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Protected Interior · Since 1880

Café Sperl

Vienna, Austria · Historic Café

Café Sperl, an iconic historic café in Vienna

The story

Café Sperl opened in 1880 as one of Vienna’s grand Ringstrasse-era coffeehouses. Its protected interior retains the original dark wood, parquet floors, marble tables, Thonet chairs, chandeliers and billiard tables that made it a favourite of artists, architects and theatre audiences.

Why Café Sperl is iconic

One of the strongest surviving historic coffeehouse interiors in Vienna: atmospheric, architecturally coherent and still used as intended.

Selected by Ernst Aben · Information reviewed July 2026

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