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excursions from Vienna   Vienna

excursions from Vienna, Vienna

 71 Reviews  Taking a boat from Vienna to Budapest is by far and away the best way of making the trip. The hydrofoil is quiet, smooth, uncrowded and has a top speed of 100 km/h. The route on Danube offers you to... 

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Walking & hiking   Salzburg

Walking & hiking, Salzburg

 22 Reviews  There are several mountains around Salzburg from where you can have a view, but Kapuzinerberg is the less visited. With 636m it is also the highest of the mountains. It is located north of the... 

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Mountains around Innsbruck   Innsbruck

Mountains around Innsbruck, Innsbruck

 20 Reviews  What a place, and what a memory of climbing this particular place. OK, facts first. Sonnbendjoch is found in the Ursprungspass in the Tyrol overlooking the town of Kramsach. It's one of many stunning... 

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churches   Vienna

churches, Vienna

 48 Reviews  This is a modern church situated exactly in front of the UNO city buildings. The edifice has a lightens and splendid inside part. The modern form of the building is an beautiful architecturally master... 

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The Beer experience   Salzburg

The Beer experience, Salzburg

 6 Reviews  If you are at all interested in Beer and how its made get yourself along to the Steigl Brauwelt Brewery. Its near the centre of Salzburg - just catch the no.1 Line bus and get out at the... 

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Outside Innsbruck   Innsbruck

Outside Innsbruck, Innsbruck

 32 Reviews  Pronounced Hell im Tirol, the town is just 10kms east of Innsbruck. It's one of my favourite places in Tyrol. First settled in the 9th century, it developed as an important trading town in the 13th... 

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Hundertwasser   Vienna

Hundertwasser, Vienna

 21 Reviews  One of the nicest building which I have ever seen! It was built in year 1985. It is like a building from a fairy tale and it is one of the most popular things to see in Vienna. I like the buildings... 

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Königssee   Salzburg

Königssee, Salzburg

 2 Reviews  Simply utterly breath taking scenery on the boat - expensive but a definite must. Get off the boat at Seeland and walk through to the other small lake, which is only accessible by foot - fantastic. A... 

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Dom zu St. Jakob   Innsbruck

Dom zu St. Jakob, Innsbruck

 5 Reviews   In the rest of the 'off-the-beaten-path' tips I want to give you an impression of the beautiful interior of this cathedral. In this picture you can see the altar of the Dom zu St. Jakob.  

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parks & gardens   Vienna

parks & gardens, Vienna

 80 Reviews  The city park is a lovely, quietly place, and in English landscape style. It was designed in the year 1862, during the construction of the Ring, and based on the plans of Josef Selleny and Rudolf... 

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Mondsee   Salzburg

Mondsee, Salzburg

 3 Reviews  We took the Sound of Music tour in the morning. The 'Sound of Music' tour took us to Helbrunn Castle and Gardens, Mondsee (cathedral in photos 2 and 3), Leopoldskron and all the way to St. Gilgen and... 

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Graveyards   Innsbruck

Graveyards, Innsbruck

 3 Reviews  As we came down from the mountain we came into a suburb called Hotting. There was a nice church here that had the most amazing graveyard we'd ever seen. OK, maybe graveyards aren't to everyone's... 

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Jugendstil / Art Nouveau   Vienna

Jugendstil / Art Nouveau, Vienna

 17 Reviews  Otto-Wagner-Kirche am Spiegelgrund, also called St.Leoplodskirche in Steinhof may be seen only from outside during the week. It dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and was built in... 

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The Alps   Salzburg

The Alps, Salzburg

 2 Reviews  This lovely little village near Salzburg was breathtaking. Situated along Lake Wolfgang, or Wolfgangsee as the locals refer, the village is nestled at the base of the Alps, with houses and shops... 

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Schloss Ambras   Innsbruck

Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck

 5 Reviews  This reinassance castle was built by archduke Ferdinand II in the 16th century on the remains of a Medieval fortress. It is divided into lower and upper castle. Ambras Castle has a very large room... 

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architecture   Vienna

architecture, Vienna

 32 Reviews  Take a look at "Vienna's smallest house" in Wien 7, Burggasse 3. It is just a bit more than 1,45 meters wide and fills a tiny spot between 2 houses and the street and dates back to 1872. Inside the... 

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Augustine Monastery   Salzburg

Augustine Monastery, Salzburg

 2 Reviews  The highlight of the Augustine Monastery is the beer hall in the lower levels. It's a great experience to buy some food from the halls surrounding the main eating area and then to choose your own... 

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Outside Austria even   Innsbruck

Outside Austria even, Innsbruck

 3 Reviews  If you are staying in Innsbruck for a long time, you could take a trip over to Italy. It's just a few hours drive on the autobahn, and there are lots of great places to explore in the north of Italy.... 

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Classical music   Vienna

Classical music, Vienna

 28 Reviews  In downtown Vienna you can find many street musicians who are really excellent. Many of them are really professional, and they often play violin in duo o trio. Listening to them is very pleasant, and... 

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Mauthausen   Salzburg

Mauthausen, Salzburg

 1 Review  This is a concentration camp east of Salzburg about an hour or so. It was truly a moving experience. I later visited Auschwitz in Krakow, and can say that Mauthesen is somehow are more somber visit... 

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Mariahilfkirche   Innsbruck

Mariahilfkirche, Innsbruck

 2 Reviews  We sat dining al fresco with the church behind and, even after seeing what Italy had to offer, I still went in and had a peek. I've never been disappointed doing that in Europe; from Mainz to... 

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1.Bezirk / 1st district   Vienna

1.Bezirk / 1st district, Vienna

 34 Reviews  Vienna is city of art, decorated with so many monuments, sculptures and fountains, dislocated all over the city and its parks. Many facades and corners of the houses are adorned with small sculptures... 

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Sound of Music   Salzburg

Sound of Music, Salzburg

 3 Reviews  Sunday, we (my grandmother and I - BB) went on the Sound of Music tour and saw where it was made. In the movie it looked like one house, but it was many places. Our guide was a Canadian My... 

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Jewish Vienna   Vienna

Jewish Vienna, Vienna

 23 Reviews  Taborstrasse is the less explored part of Vienna. Taborstrasse is in the 2nd Viennese district called Leopoldstadt, across the Donau canal from Schwedenplatz. The 2nd district is also locally... 

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Grossgmain   Salzburg

Grossgmain, Salzburg

 2 Reviews  Next to the pilgrimage church in Grossgmain there is a very special garden. It's called Mariengarten, garden dedicated to Mary. However, this garden combines the Catholic belief in Mary with the... 

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The Schloss Leopoldskron Palace

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The Schloss Leopoldskron Palace is a privately owned villa located on the outskirts of Salzburg. Anyone familiar with the movie, The Sound of Music, will recognize it as the setting for the von Trapp home. The Schloss Leopoldskron Palace was built in the early 1700s in the Rococo style of architecture by Prince Archbishop Leopold Anton Firmian as his private residence. It was designed by Bavarian architect Pater Bernhard Stuart, a Benedictine monk from Regensburg and professor of mathematics at Salzburg University. The building has three floors and an octagonal tower in its center. The intricate stucco work was done by Johan Kleber.After the First World War, the villa was purchased by Max Reinhardt, a co-founder of the Salzburg Festival. During the 1930s, the Schloss Leopoldskron Palace was a center of the Salzburg social scene. Because Max Reinhardt was a Jew, he fled Austria in 1938...

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Petzenkirchen : Haubiversum, a new museum !

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Petzenkirchen is a lot of fun for the whole family: "Haubiversum" is a museum about the production of bread and all sorts of rolls and in a guided tour you will not only see the giant machineries of the production, but you will go back to the roots and start with an interesting video about the history of bread. After the film there will be the highlight of the tour : YOU will make your own Mohnflesserl / Mohnstritzerl or Zopf ! This type of roll still has to be hand-made and you will be shown how to do it and while you make the tour further through the museum with a guide, your freshly-made Mohnflesserl will be backed for you and it will be ready to be eaten by you at the end of the tour !Your Mohnflessers gets a flag with you name on it, so you will get what you have prepared.Haubiversum is a lot of fun also for the children ! There is a program for them,guided by 2 nice ladies of the...

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Baernbach : a church by Hundertwasser

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Hundertwasserkirche in Baernbach is an important sight for all fans of Hundertwasser's architecture : It is the only church worldwide, that was decorated by Hundertwasser. The original church was quite poor and built in 1948, shortly after WW II.The interior is quite simple, made by other artists, Hundertwasser made mainly the facades and the church-tower.The churchtower is my favorite part of Hundertwasserkirche in Baernbach. Take a closer look for the fine details in the decorations. Friedensreich Hundertwasser was born in december 15th, 1928 as Friedrich Stowasser. His mother was jewish and 69 members of her family were deported and killed by the Nazis. Between 1938 and 1945 he became member of the HJ / Hitlerjugend in order to protect his mother and in fact he was able to.The Prozessionsweg (procession-path) around the church was Hundertwassers idea and so he had built 12 gates and...

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Piber : Lipizzanerwelt

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Piber might be an interesting place to go when you have children and like horses : Lipizzanerwelt in Piber is the place, where you can watch the young ponies of the famous White Horses of the Vienna Riding School doing their first lessons of training and spending the first 3 years of their life, before they are taken to Vienna in order to participate in the performances of the famous Riding School. Did you know that the ponies of the White Horses are totally black, when they are born, and just later-on they change their color to completely white.Lipizanerwelt is open daily except MondayThe entrance-fee is 11 euros / children 6 euroschildren under 6 are free---------------------------------------How to get to Piber: it is certainly the best and easyest to drive there in your own car, there are lots of parking-lots in Baernbach and Piber.There are also direct buses and trains from Graz,...

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Grafenegg castle - 60km west of Vienna

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Grafenegg castle is a great day-excursion and you will find it in a distance of about 60km west of Vienna. Grafenegg castle , the way you see it today, was built in the 17th century and used to be a water-castle in former times. Today the moat is dried out, but still there are just 2 bridges to enter the castle. In the 19th century Graf August Ferdinand Breuner had the castle rebuilt in neo-gothic style , similar to english castles that he had seen during his travels there.In my childhood I lived 5 years in Grafenwörth am Kamp - just 4 Km from Grafenegg, and this castle was the very first castle I saw in reality, OUTside of fairytale-books....It looked very sad, but still romantic for me from the distance, as it was not possible to enter at that time and plenty of windows were just broken and people told me, that all the interior was stolen after WW II and the russian occupants even...

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Burg Kreuzenstein - 20km north of Vienna

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Burg Kreuzenstein is an interesting castle 20km north of Vienna. It looks much older that it is in reality : It was built between 1874 and 1906 at the same place, where a castle was built already in the 12th century, but that castle was detroyed during the 30-year-war and only a few parts of that castle were used to build the castle that you will see nowadays.When you click on this link you will be able to click through lots of pics of the interesting architecture of that castle.You can visit the castle only by guided tour !Kreuzenstein castle is open for visitors daily from 10.00a.m. till 04.00p.m.plus at sundays during "official summertime" (amtl. Sommerzeit)it is open untill 05.00p.m. (thats the time after the clock was changed in spring)Adults pay 8 Euros / children 6-16 pay 4,50 eurosFotography and Video are forbidden inside !When you like to go from Vienna to Burg Kreuzenstein by...

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Radetzky,the famous White Horses & vintage-cars

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Kleinwetzdorf in the north-west of Vienna is the place, where Feldmarschall Radetzky is buried.Josef Gottfried Pargfrieder was a rich and weathly merchant, who delivered most of his goods to the austrian army. He became a good friend of Feldmarschall Radetzky and his friend Feldmarschall von Wimpffen and offered them a special place to be buried : the "Heldenberg" (the hill of heros). Radetzky at the other hand did not enough money for a nice place to be buried, so he agreed about Heldenberg and now his remains are down in the tomb below the obelisk, next to Pargfrieder and von Wimpffen.After the death of Radetzky Pargfrieder tried to sell Heldenberg for 1 million Kronen to the emperor, who did not want to have it, so Pargfrieder, who did not have a family finally gave it to the emperor as a present.------------------------------------------------Next to Heldenberg you will find a...

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Knights, Dragons & more in Kleinhaugsdorf

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This is a great place when you travel with children or when you are young at heart: Excalibur City was planned as a dutyfree-shoppingarea and you will see a lot of attractions there, great restaurants, lifesize knights on their horses, dragons on the roof of the buildings etc. There are also some Formular1 cars, an airplane decorated by Pfrof. Ernst Fuchs, a famous austrian painter, there is a Casino and a lot more - click on the link below to see my page about this place !-------------------------------------------Excaliburcity in Kleinhaugsdorf is about 65 km north of Vienna and can be combined with several interesting towns in northern Austria like Retz, Laa an der Thaya, Heidenreichstein....and also places like Znojmo, Brno, the castles Valtice and Lednice, Telc....Website:

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Forchtenstein castle is quite close to Vienna

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Forchtenstein castle is an easy daytrip from Vienna especially for people who are interested in medieval times and great works of art.Inside of Burg Forchtenstein you will find 3 different museums:1) The "Ahnengallerie" that is a collection of great paintings of the most important members of the family-tree of the Esterhazy-Clan and in addition you will see great exhibits like ornate clocks, the silver-room, great furniture etc.Invest another 1 Euros for the small booklet that will give you the ONLY infos you will get about these exhibits !!! Nothing will be explained in that museum, except that you find the numbers, where to find the infos in that booklet !You can visit that part of Burg Forchtenstein on your own !or by guided tour Mon-Fri 12.30 + 02.30 p.m.Sat+Sun+Holidays: also at 10.30+11.30+01.30p.m.--- --- ---2)The Art-collection: its an excellent collection of arms, weapons, iron...

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Ruine Aggstein

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Ruine Aggstein is a medieval castle of robber-barons in the Danube-valley between Melk and Krems. A steep and rather small one-way-track leads up the hill, where you have a tremendous view over the valley - the old knights really knew where to build their castles and from their castle they had a great place to watch out for victims who would have to pay high tolls for the transport of their goods on the river Danube.You have to pay a small entry-fee of about 3,- € for the ruins and can walk around on your own - and you also have a nice self-service-restaurant with local food inside the ruin .The castle and the restaurant is open until sundown. There is a small rock with just a wooden fence around it now, that once was called "rosary" - a tiny garden high up on the hill.This "garden" was used to get rid of enemies and prisoners, in a brutal and very direct way:In the old times it had NO...

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