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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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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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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
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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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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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
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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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
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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Well when in Austria I guess you simply must visit Vienna. This is a picture of St Stephens Cathedral, Vienna. We have visited many large cities, and several Capitals, but Vienna struck us more than most with the sheer 'grandness' of it's buildings. There are areas like that in other cities, but the whole of Vienna seemed to be mightily impressive.
Innsbruck, the capital of the Tirol region is beautiful historic city. It's small enough to make it a day-trip destination if all you want to see is the city, but there is so much surrounding Innsbruck too that you could easily spend longer here.This is the Goldenes Dachl (Golden Roof), probably Innsbruck's most famous sight. What we loved about Innsbruck was the ancient streets of the Aldstadt, crammed with cafes and bars, and the galleried shops that stood back from the streets. The atmosphere around the city was just so laid back, much less hectic than in Salzburg and Vienna.
Another contender for 'most picturesque village in Austria' is Hallstatt. Like Traunkirchen it is sited below the hills on the side of a lake, in this case the Hallstattersee. It is an easy train journey away from Traunkirchen, but the fact that it has so many hotels, gasthoffs, B&B, apartments, campsites, etc of it's own means that it's a great place to actually base yourself for a holiday in this area.Again, see the upcoming travelogue for more details.
Zell Am Zee is another nice lakeside resort. It's not so plush as Kitzbuhel but it's still very nice, and has the added bonus of being right next to a good sized lake. This lake is surrounded by strandbads and hotels and there are some good mountain destinations close by too. The town centre is quite small and there are one or two historic buildings, including this, the parish church.
Bad Ischl is one of Austria's most famous spa towns, made famous by its patron Emperor Franz Josef I. It has some interesting attractions, some good shops, cafes etc, a riverside promenade and an excellent annual summer festival (whic we visited - see travelogue). There is also a fantastic Konditorei here - Zauner (see elsewhere).
Melk is a small town standing on the Danbue in the wine region near Vienna. We took a short coach tour in this area, just to get a flavour of what it has to offer. It really was a lovely area and one day we will return here just to visit this region. At Melk we had a short look around the abbey, which is truly huge, and totally dominates the town!
Kitzbuhel in the Tirol region is just about as plush a resort as you will find. It is crammed with lovely shops, cafes, bars, restaurants and top class hotels, but it keeps a friendly air about it and is certainly not snobbish. There are also some real old buildings in Kitzbuhel, some dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. At one end of the town these two churches stand side by side.
Gmunden was a really lovely place. In addition to its nice shops and cafes it has a long, long lakeside promenade at one end of which is a strandbad (bathing area) and at the other end is Schloss Orth, a castle that stands out in the lake. From Gmunden you can take boat trips around the lake and as far as Traunkirchen, mentioned above, and Ebensee at the other end of the lake. These steamers also stop off at some remote lakeside gasthoffs where you can just relax, have a cake and wait for the next boat. On Sunday the historic steam ship Gisela operates, and this is a real nice way to see the lake.
The village of Traunkirchen in the Salzkammergut region is one of the most picturesque villages in Austria (though admittedly there are MANY picuresque villages in Austria). It sits by the shore of lake Traunsee, and a small chapel stands on a promentory jutting out into the lake. The village is very small, with 2 hotels, a couple of Gasthoffs and one cafe. Nightlife is almost non existent, but if you long for peace and tranquility in a beautiful setting then this is a nice place. By day it's easy to travel out of Traunkirchen on the railway or lake steamers, though these both stop running relatively early in the evening.See the forthcoming travelogue for more information.
Go to a place called FrankenFells, it's a small town but it's the most beautiful place I've ever been to. It's quiet, very scenic, it's got the green and the waterfalls, the kind of place you dream of finding. It's clean fresh and the lakes are spectacular. My fondest memory would probably be the summer festival's which go on every Wednesday and Saturday and the bar stays open until the last person leaves, which of course was us Irish Lads. In the winter their was the snow and you can emagine what we got up to, a lot of skiing and snowball fighting.
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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