Vienna
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Vienna was a city in Austria.
Visits by the Doctor
Vienna was particularly favoured by the Eighth Doctor. He left Samson and Gemma Griffin in Vienna while answering a distress signal from his future self. (AUDIO: Mary's Story) On another occasion, he battled a Bacchanite in Vienna and in the process inspired Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to write Faust. (PROSE: The Sorrows of Vienna) Finally, he took Mary Shelley there on her very first journey in the TARDIS. On this third trip, he and Shelley battled Cybermen. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk)
The Fifth Doctor and Peri also visited Vienna in 2100, if only long enough to deposit the Time Lord Techu there. (PROSE: Leap Second)
Other visitors
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson went on holiday to Vienna on the Orient Express. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire) Indeed, Vienna was highly significant to Europe's railway network, being a stop on the Transcontinental Express as well. On 3 September 1939, Romana II rode the Calais-Vienna leg of that journey. (AUDIO: A Blind Eye)
Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish once travelled back in time to Vienna to ensure that Adolf Hitler was admitted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. (PROSE: The Sideways Door)
Known residents
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was known to have lived in Vienna for a time, and indeed his DNA was once recovered from a harpsichord there and used to clone him. (AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang)
Toby the Sapient Pig was grown in a bell jar in Vienna. (AUDIO: Year of the Pig)
Hitler was educated in Vienna. (PROSE: The Sideways Door)