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museums   Vienna

museums, Vienna

 42 Reviews  It amuses me to see the uninitiated walking in to a butterfly house. Being a slightly worldy man I had ventured into one before and the first, second and third things you notice are - it's bloody hot... 

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Mirabell gardens   Salzburg

Mirabell gardens, Salzburg

 8 Reviews  We were three blocks from Mirabell Gardens and walked by them a half a dozen times without realizing what it was. On our last day, we discovered them about 20 minutes before our bus was to leave for a... 

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Mountains around Innsbruck   Innsbruck

Mountains around Innsbruck, Innsbruck

 15 Reviews  There are several cable cars up into the mountains on either side of Innsbruck. At least two have cafes at the top. We walked up from this cable car to a viewing area and from it we could see the... 

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Hofburg   Vienna

Hofburg, Vienna

 54 Reviews  This was a temporary structure raised in front of Hofburg (you can see the city hall in the background). It was probably some kind of presentation of an exhibition taking place inside Hofburg. I was... 

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Sightseeing by foot   Salzburg

Sightseeing by foot, Salzburg

 12 Reviews  Here is some useful information about Salzburg for you just in case: www.salzburginfo.at tourist@salzburginfo.at tel.+43 0662 88 98 70 fax +43 0662 88 98 7-435 Salzburg Guide Service ... 

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Old Town (Altstadt)   Innsbruck

Old Town (Altstadt), Innsbruck

 17 Reviews  The city tower is situated in the old town, in the square where is Goldenes Dachl too. The tower was built in 1440. The roof was renovated in XVI century. It is possible to go upstairs and to see... 

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1. Bezirk / 1st District   Vienna

1. Bezirk / 1st District, Vienna

 62 Reviews  Due to a limited time, and bad weather conditions, I have explore the central part of the town only. Actually, I was in Vienna couple of times before but have never snaped any picture. What you see on... 

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Travel tips and assistance   Salzburg

Travel tips and assistance, Salzburg

 16 Reviews  If you buy the Salzburg Card, you get 1-time free entry to all the attractions in the city, all public transport services (zone S), discounts on cultural events and discounts on several trips, tours... 

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Churches   Innsbruck

Churches, Innsbruck

 17 Reviews  If you stay your back to Hofburg and then go along the street, along the old university, to your right hand then you see Jesuitenkirche, built in 1646.It is a place of graves of Jesuits Order members... 

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Schönbrunn   Vienna

Schönbrunn, Vienna

 105 Reviews  The initial animal collection at Schounbrunn was formed by the stock of animals from the former palace of Neugeboude and the menagerie belonging to the Belvedere. These animals - with the exception... 

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Mozart Platz   Salzburg

Mozart Platz, Salzburg

 11 Reviews  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in this town and you can visit his birth home that is located in the old city center. He was born in 1756 and died in 1791. Mozart is touted as one of the greatest... 

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Personal Memories and Impressions   Innsbruck

Personal Memories and Impressions, Innsbruck

 20 Reviews  This park was originally founded as a hunting ground. Later it was declared a public garden. There are various plants and a small lake here. At one of the entrances of the park there is a... 

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Hundertwasser   Vienna

Hundertwasser, Vienna

 19 Reviews  The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, built after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser with architect Joseph Krawina as a co-author. This... 

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Altstadt   Salzburg

Altstadt, Salzburg

 6 Reviews  City tours starting at 9.30 a.m., 10 a.m. and every hour until 5 p.m are quite popular among the visitors of the city. You can make reservations at +43 0662 87 40 29 sightseeing@panoramatours.com ... 

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Useful Information   Innsbruck

Useful Information, Innsbruck

 10 Reviews  The great variety of Innsbruck's cultural and nature program can be enjoyed at particularly reasonable prices with the Innsbruck Card since the holder gets free local transportation as well as... 

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Ringstrasse   Vienna

Ringstrasse, Vienna

 44 Reviews  Dating from the 1820s, which "Graecomania" in Vienna was at its height, the Theseus Temple is a replica of a 5th century structure in Athens. It's a major focus of attention inside the Volksgarten,... 

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Dome/Cathedral   Salzburg

Dome/Cathedral, Salzburg

 9 Reviews  This is going to be hard to explain. Looking directly at the front of the Dome, walk back so you are past the statue of Mary and through the arches across the way. If you back up far enough and then... 

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Bergisel   Innsbruck

Bergisel, Innsbruck

 11 Reviews  Bergiesel was built to Winter Olympic games of 1964. 40000 people could watch sport events. There is wonderful panorama of the city from the stadium. Every year, January 4, one of the stages of... 

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sightseeing & day-excursions   Vienna

sightseeing & day-excursions, Vienna

 21 Reviews  Bratislava is in just a short distance from Vienna and you may take the S-Bahn from Gaenserndorf - it will take you in less than 1 hour to Bratislava.The return-ticket on S-bahn is less than 10 Euros... 

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Pferdeschwemme   Salzburg

Pferdeschwemme, Salzburg

 3 Reviews  We stopped by to take some picture at this pool because we saw beautiful murals on the wall, little that we know…it a horse pond or bathing pool for horses a long time ago. Well that interesting... 

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Food and Drink   Innsbruck

Food and Drink, Innsbruck

 5 Reviews  Well this is another specialty, that you don't have to miss. Sachertorte is a chocolate cake, invented by Franz Sacher in 1832 for Klemens Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the... 

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Stephansdom   Vienna

Stephansdom, Vienna

 31 Reviews  The red-marble sepulcher of Emperor Frederick III, sculpted from 1467 to 1513 by Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden; the pulpit, a work from 1514-15 by Anton Pilgram (who put his own relief portrait... 

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Hohensalzburg   Salzburg

Hohensalzburg, Salzburg

 7 Reviews  This very well preserved cannon and thee others just like it remain aimed out of the portals of Hohensalzburg's Katze bastion. The heavy cast iron portal doors remain open these days. The bastion and... 

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Helblinghaus   Innsbruck

Helblinghaus, Innsbruck

 8 Reviews  One of the highlights in the Innsbruck guidebooks is Helblinghaus. It is situated to the right from Goldenes Dachl, in opposite lines of the houses. It is an example of burgers house of XV century in... 

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Classical Music   Vienna

Classical Music, Vienna

 25 Reviews  Several ways to purchase tickets: 1) Call the ticket offices of the venues (Staatoper, Musikverein, etc) ahead of time. The Viennese speak excellent English. 2) Attempt to reserve on the venues'... 

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Reviews from VirtualTourist Members

Go and see the several lakes...

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Go and see the several lakes lying between the mountains that are covered with darkgreen trees. E.g. you can hire a boat / waterbike at Weissensee and look around. Some lakes are even so fresh you can swim in them. Watch out though, the water might be very cold...Also pay a visit to Villach & Salzburg. Nice towns. Yes yes I know it was horsebackriding again! I rode through a small river and plucked apples in the fields. I galoped through the woods and wished I had my own horse ;)

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ENGLISH - This is the Tirol....

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ENGLISH - This is the Tirol. Yes, it's me on the bottom at left - PORTUGUÊS - Isto é o Tirol. Sim, sou eu no cantinho inferior esquerdo - FRANÇAIS - Ceci, cést le Tirol. Oui, c'est moi en bas à gauche.

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VORARLBERG

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Vorarlberg is Austria's westernmost province and, with the exception of Vienna, itself a province, the smallest in terms of area. The people speak an Alemannic dialect of German which is more close to that spoken in neighboring Switzerland than to the language in the rest of Austria. The area between Lake Constance and the Arlberg massif contains a wide variety of scenery and its natural beauty attracts many foreign visitors. Apart from tourism, the principal economic activities are industry and power generation. Vorarlberg's textile industry plays a major role within the Austrian economy. Electricity from Vorarlberg's immense reserves of hydro-electric power not only supplies Austria but is also exported to help meet peek-time requirements in Germany and the Benelux countries. The Arlberg massif on the border between Vorarlberg and Tyrol enjoys an international reputation as an Alpine...

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VIENNA

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Vienna is the Austrian capital and at the same time a federal province in its own right. It is situated in the east of the country, surrounded on all sides by the province of Lower Austria, only seventy kilometers from the borders with Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. One of the foundations for Vienna's development into a leading European city is its position at the junction between the east-west trade route along the Danube and the long established communications links between the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. Vienna is the seat of the federal legislative bodies, the Federal Government, the central authorities and the supreme courts and a number of international organizations. It plays host to numerous international conferences (second-ranking venue worldwide) as well as being an important European center for tourists. Magnificent architecture and museums and art...

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SALZBURG PROVINCE

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The salt which gave both the city and the province their name has been mined in this region for centuries. The province includes part of the Limestone Alps, the lakes of the western Salzkammergut, the eastern section of the Kitzbühler Alps, the northern part of the Hohe Tauern range and the western area of the Niedere Tauern. The city of Salzburg (pop. approximately 144,000) is the seat of the provincial government and of the Archbishop of Salzburg. Once the home of Mozart, it developed in the years after 1945, along with the rest of the province, into a focal point for international tourism. The entire ancient city has been preserved and now represents an integral work of art in its own right. The thermal springs in the Gastein Valley have established an international reputation for the spa resorts of Badgastein and Bad Hofgastein. Small towns such as Saalbach/Hinterglemm, Zell am See...

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TYROL

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Tyrol is one of the world's best known vacation regions, and as a result most people tend to have a preconceived image of the province. It is a picture dominated by mountains and forests, old farm houses set against splendid Alpine scenery and colourful folk customs. An important part of the established picture is also played of course by winter sports; the provincial capital, Innsbruck, was chosen to host the Winter Olympics in 1964 and again in 1976. Tyrol does indeed earn more foreign currency from tourism than any other province, but it is also important for the production of hydro-electric power. It supplies large areas of southern Germany with electricity, thus playing an important economic role in the European context. Internationally significant industrial concerns include Metallwerk Plansee (powder metallurgy), Jenbacher Werke (diesel engines, vehicles) and Swarovski (optical...

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LOWER AUSTRIA

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From Upper Austria, the Danubes flows eastward into Lower Austria, the country's largest province. Since 1986 St. Pölten (pop. approximately 50,000) is the provincial capital. Like its western neighbor, Lower Austria is traditionally divided into administrative areas known as 'Viertel', which still accounts for such regional designations as the Waldviertel or the Weinviertel (the wood and wine areas). Lower Austria is the province with the highest percentage of its area under cultivation, most of it by agriculture and wine-growing. It is the country's biggest supplier of many agricultural products such as wheat and beet sugar, and such choice Austrian wines as those from the Wachau, the Vienna area, Gumpoldskirchen, Baden and Vöslau are much in demand by connoisseurs. But Lower Austria, which forms the historic nucleus of Austria as it is known today, also has considerable natural...

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CARINTHIA

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Carinthia is Austria's southernmost province. Surrounded by high mountains, it consists of the mountainous Upper Carinthia in the west and in the east of the Lower Carinthian basin region. Particularly popular with visitors from both Austria and abroad is the so-called 'Carinthian Riviera', the region around the Wörther See not far from the provincial capital Klagenfurt (pop. approximately 89,000), and the attractive resorts on the Ossiacher See and the Millstätter See. In addition to a fourth big lake, the Weissensee, the province has some two hundred smaller ones. Many visitors come to Carinthia not only to spend their vacation here but also to attend the Carinthian Summer Festival. Southern Carinthia has been the home of a Slovene ethnic group for centuries. In the Gail and Drau valleys, German and Slovene speakers live together. Among Carinthia's most important natural resources...

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STYRIA

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Styria is frequently referred to as Austria's 'green province.' Extensive forests cover about half of it and grassland and vineyards account for a further quarter. But the mountains of Upper Styria in the north, with their rich resources of iron ore and the iron and steel industry which has grown up there, have also given the economy of the province a distinctly industrial character. Styria is in fact Austria's leading mining province, nine-tenths of all the iron ore produced on a national scale coming from the Erzberg (literally 'ore mountain') near the town of Eisenerz, which literally means 'iron ore'. In the west of the province lignite is mined and there are also rich deposits of magnesite, which is exported, along with magnesite products, to many countries. The mining and steel industries have their research center in the Mining University of Leoben. The iron, steel and...

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BURGENLAND

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Austria's easternmost province shares a common border with Lower Austria and Styria. In accordance with the terms at the Treaty of St. Germain of 1919, it was formed in 1921 from German-speaking border areas of what had previously been Hungary. The Burgenland is a predominantly agricultural province, its main products being wheat, corn, vegetables, fruit and a large variety of renowned wines. Canning factories have been established near the main agricultural production centers. The attractive countryside ensures a steady flow of visitors. Especially Lake Neusiedl, Central Europe's only steppe lake, is a tourist attraction. The provincial capital, Eisenstadt (pop. approximately 10,000), was for many years the home of Joseph Haydn, who is buried there in the unusual Bergkirche, or hill-side church. The Burgenland Haydn Festival is held in Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt. In July and...

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Top 3 Hotels in Austria

Hotel Imperial  Vienna

 6 Reviews and 237 Opinions  the hotel imperial is located downtown within walking distance of many of the sights of vienna. this... 

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Hotel Sacher Salzburg  Salzburg

 9 Reviews and 310 Opinions  I stayed here for a weekend in the spring of 2011. The staff were lovely, the food (especially the... 

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Best Western Hotel Goldener Adler  Innsbruck

 5 Reviews and 245 Opinions  I really cannot praise this hotel more highly. It stands in the heart of the old town just a few... 

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