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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Vogtturm is folklore museum located in an interesting old tower that is part of the 16th century Rathaus of Zell-em-see. The tower actually was built long before the rest of the building and dates from the 9th century. Inside the museum, there is the usual array of costumes, decorative and popular artifacts that comes along with "folklore" museums. I was a little spent on such pieces by this time in my trip and found that most of it was unmemorable.
If you are a crystal fan and you are in the Tyrol area, near the town of Wattens, you should visit the Swarovski's Crystal Museum. Caution: Be aware that the museum has a huge 'gift shop' at the end. This shop is full with expansive crystal artifacts.
I've lost count of the people I've told about the second largest city in Austria......none of them had heard of it!GRAZ is tucked away in the South East in Styria It's friendly and much more 'typical' of local life. There are still mountains surrounding it (if you take the train from Vienna, you travel through the Ennstal past Schladming) as well as easy access to surrounding countries, like Slovenia, Croatia, Italy.........Although some parts of it look very traditional, it is a university city with a young population and was even the European city of Culture a couple of years back.
The food here was typical of most restaurants we found in the region. The Wiener Schnitzel was good as was the self serve salad buffet. The service was good and we were not rushed to leave even though we had finished our meal and stayed in the restarant talking to friends.
Winter is the best time for a relaxing stay in one of Upper Austria´s most beautiful regions. Bad Goisern is a part of the Hallstatt Dachstein culture and nature preserve and has been awarded "world heritage area"!
Anyone who has read my pages thoroughly knows that I am a sucker for old ruins. Therefore I had to visit the Ausgrabungen (Excavations) at Magdalensberg while I was in the Carinthia region but I was somewhat at a loss on how to approach it. After checking out a map in the tourist office in St. Veit I discovered that you could hike most of the way there from Hochosterwitz Castle several kilometers to the north. This seemed like fun at first but it was humid that day and the walk, all up hill, turned into a somewhat sweaty outing. Finally after stopping at a cafe and old church on top of the mountain halfway to Magdalensberg, I arrived just before it closed for the day. The site is the location of a Celto-Roman town that was located here from 100 B.C. to 40 A.D. It was more of a trading outpost for the Romans. The town was abandoned in the time of Tiberius and forgotten. Only in the 16th...
In the middle of the park next to the Neo Gothic beautiful church of Vienna, stands this lovely original idea, stone table and chairs made of stone, I just like it, Angelika had a sit, as she was already tired hee heepoor friend!
The Gardens of Upper Belvedere are worth to have a walk through and enjoy the lovely nature and art of man!rather do it in a summer day as fountains are working, but you can't have all the wonders in the same time, I mean Christmas could never be in the summer right LOL
It is located along the Lieser river, between Spittal an der Drau and the Lake Millstatt (Millstatter See.)It is a tranquil, wooded path along the fast moving river.I don't know how long it would take to go from one end to the other because we only had one and a half hour parking in Spittal and had to turn around after 45 minutes.We did not know that there was a small parking area along the path where there was no time limit and no parking fee.Don't have to worry about drinking water, it is coming out of the mountain side at several places.The path is fairly steep at some places but that did not seem to bother several bicyclists as they whizzed by us.
It s almost a pity we only use Austria as a travel-through-country for we see so many castles along the way.I always try to think how it must have been ages ago, when only travel was done by horse or horse pulled carriage.Don t succeed however, it must have taken them forever to get where they wanted to be!
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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Q: My husband, my 8 month old baby and I are going to Vienna at the end of May, we will be going for one week, probably 4 days in...
A: Definitely Prague! It's more interesting, it's more bautiful, it's friendlier, it's cheaper and I can't think of in what way it would make a difference to parents of a...
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