Franziskanerplatz

This guide to Franziskanerplatz in Vienna opens with the traffic chaos outside the Franciscan church in the 1620s, when carriages jammed a lane too narrow for Sunday Mass and Emperor Ferdinand II was asked to intervene. It follows the modest 1603-1607 facade the Franciscans built to match their vow of humility, and the far more lavish interior inside, including Andrea Pozzo's illusionistic altar and Vienna's oldest working organ. You'll also meet the Baroque Moses fountain that Johann Martin Fischer carved for the square at the end of the 1700s.