Luxury dog-friendly hotels in Vienna, Austria

With its monumental palaces, gilded opera houses and stately boulevards Vienna feels like an imperial capital still looking for its long-lost empire. The city’s high-brow arts scene remains unparalleled and its legendary cafés, once the haunt of Freud and Trotsky, still draw in the intellectuals for a rich Franziskaner or powerful Kapuziner – as well as people simply mesmerised by the cake trolleys. Yet among the dreamy nostalgia a new wave of stylish restaurants and cool bars is springing up and filling the Austrian capital with a energetic lease of life.