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The Molker Bastei , one of the few remaining sections of the old zigzag fortifications that once surrounded the Innere Stadt, can be found on Schreyvogelgasse, to the west of Freyung. The sloping cobbled lane below the fortifications should be familiar to fans of the movie The Third Man , for it's in the doorway of no. 8 that Harry Lime (played by Orson Welles) appears for the first time. High up on the Bastei itself, at no. 8, is the Pasqualatihaus (Tues-Sun 9am-12.15pm & 1-4.30pm; oS25/?1.82), where Beethoven lived on and off from 1804 onwards (he moved 68 times during his 35 years in Vienna). The composer's apartment is now a museum, though there's no indication of how the place might have looked at the time he lived there. Perhaps this is just as well - according to one visitor it was "the darkest, most disorderly place imaginable ? under the piano (I do not exaggerate) an unemptied chamber pot ? chairs ? covered with plates bearing the remains of last night's supper". Instead, you're left to admire Ludwig's gilded salt and pepper pots and battered tin sugar container, or sit down and listen to some of his music through headphones.
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