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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
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
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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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
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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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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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
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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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
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
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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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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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
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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Walk through the streets of Vienna, which are safe and colorful. Beautiful boutiques, pubs and tea houses are plentiful and people-watching is great. Walking to school each day through Stephansplatz, shown in this photo.
Find a favorite tea house and park yourself there in the afternoon with a pot of tea and wonderful Viennese pastry. There used to be a tea house on nearly every corner in Vienna. I would bring by study materials or the paper and spend late afternoon enjoying the atmosphere. You will not be kicked out for taking your time!
Spend a Sunday afternoon in the hills outside of Vienna enjoying the many, charming wine houses -- or 'Heurigen.' There are many hundreds from which to choose and most are just north and west of the city. I think there was one at or nearby the home of Beethoven. Sit outside on a sunny day and enjoy the experience. After a light 'deli-style' meal and wine tasting, there are numerous beautiful walks to take in the nearby hills.
Vienna just oozes history! Wandering the Christmas market, staying at a Pensione that was over 200 years old, and visiting the palace grounds. Salzburg is beautiful - the surrounding mountains, and the Mozart museum are a must see. My fondest memory - well two of them - was visiting Zentralfriedhof in Vienna to see all of the composers - and the mountains at sunset in Salzburg - breathtaking!
Salzburg is the archetypical experience. The castle, the gardens, the FOOD and BEER, the old town. Positively outstanding. We camped in a campground overlooking the Danube under the spires of the cathedral in Melk. Serene beauty.
Go skiing (snowboarding), I find that these activities are very well condoned in communities in Western Austria. Kaprun being one of my favorites. And any city in that area is very 'cozy'. My fondest memory would have to be standing near the peak of Grossglockner, and marveling in the beauty that is the Austrian Alps. And then drinkin' a lot of good beer afterwards, and having my friends, and myself get shot down left and right by beautiful Austrian girls, we were just sitting ducks for cruel letdowns.
Visit Durnstein. It's in the Wachau on the Danube between Salzburg and Vienna (closer to Vienna). It is the location of the ruins of the castle where Richard the Lionhearted allegedly was held for ransom during the crusades. It is truly a fairytale village. If you take the steep path to the castle ruins and the top of the mountain, you will pass through a forest of knarled trees that you will swear are inhabited by gnomes and elves. The villagers are very friendly and it is touristed primarily by Viennese.Lermoos is a quaint ski village in the Alps which is barely vistited in the warmer months. A shame. The hiking is wonderful and the scenery breathtaking.
Get on one of the highest mountains and look down. It's a total rush! As a child when visiting granny, I used to watch the helicopters fly up there looking for missing or wounded rock climbers. It's very dangerous to go out on your own, but if you're really into it you can go with a group of experienced rock climbers or just go up there and take a peak down into Mallnitz and it's surroundings. It's absolutely gorgeous! Austria has THE best food and the people are absolutely great! The hotels are very unique and their restaurants as well. There's a lot of woodwork and carvings and it's very romantic. You can eat by candlelight and check out their woodcarvings on the walls and beams in awe!
eat and drink as much as you can!! So walk about 5 miles a day!!!! went to see U2 in Vienna!!!!!! Then stayed up until 3 in the morning with three really hot austrian chicks trying to console them that Bono hadn't called them to their hotel room.
Alpbachtal has something like 42km of slopes and a great variety of slopes depending on the skills of the person skiing. The great thing about this resort is, that according to those who have been there often, it hardly never gets so busy that you have to wait for the ski lifts longer than 15 min, which is obviously important if you want to make the most of the sunny slopes ;)
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...
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...
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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