Favoriten

Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna, Austria, is located south of the central districts. It is south of Innere Stadt, Wieden and Margareten. Favoriten is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also large recreational areas and parks.The name comes from Favorita, a semi-baroque palace complex that once served as a hunting castle but today is the Theresianum a Gymnasium in the 4th district. The customs facilities at the original southern border of Vienna were known as the Favoriten-Linie while nearby houses were known as the Siedlung vor der Favoriten-Linie.