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Residenzplatz
With its horse-drawn carriages, palace and street entertainers, this stately baroque square is the Salzburg of a thousand postcards. Its centrepiece is the Residenzbrunnen , an enormous marble fountain ringed by four water-spouting horses and topped by a conch shell–bearing Triton.
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Roman Ruins
As the plaque on the ground in Fő tér reminds you, Sopron used to be an important stop along the Amber Road, and fragments of Sopron’s Roman past – in the form of reconstructed Roman walls and outlines of 2nd-century buildings – can be found at the open-air ruins behind the city’s
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Stephansdom Katakomben
The area on Stephansplatz around the cathedral was originally a graveyard – making it the ‘dead centre’ of Vienna in a very literal sense. But with plague and influenza epidemics striking Europe in the 1730s, Karl VI ordered the graveyard to be closed and henceforth Vienna buried i
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Hermesvilla
The Hermesvilla was commissioned by Franz Josef I and presented to his wife as a gift. Built by Karl von Hasenauer between 1882 and 1886, with Klimt and Makart on board as interior decorators, the villa is plush – it’s more a mansion than simply a ‘villa’. Empress Elisabeth’s bedr
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Mauthausen Memorial
Nowadays Mauthausen is an attractive small town on the north bank of the Danube east of Linz, but its status as a quarrying centre prompted the Nazis to site KZ Mauthausen concentration camp here. Prisoners were forced into slave labour in the granite quarry and many died on the so
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Wallfahrtskirche
St Wolfgang’s impressive Wallfahrtskirche is a spectacular gallery of religious art, with glittering altars (from Gothic to baroque), an extravagant pulpit, a fine organ, and countless statues and paintings. The most impressive piece is the winged high altar, created by celebrated
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Hofpavillon Hietzing
Built between 1898 and 1899 by Otto Wagner as part of the public transport system, the Hofpavillon Hietzing was originally designed as a private station for the imperial court. The regal wood-panelled interior was designed by Wagner in conjunction with Josef Olbrich. Its white faca
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Johann Strauss Residence
Strauss the Younger called Praterstrasse 54 home from 1863 to 1878 and composed the waltz, ‘The Blue Danube,’ under its high ceilings. Inside you’ll find an above-average collection of Strauss and ballroom memorabilia, including an Amati violin said to have belonged to him and oil
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Burgkapelle
The Burgkapelle (Royal Chapel) originally dates from the 13th century and received a Gothic makeover from 1447 to 1449, but much of this disappeared during the baroque fad. The vaulted wooden statuary survived and is testament to those Gothic days. This is where the Vienna Boys’ Ch
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Gustav Klimt
This 2km-long lakeside trail has information boards with prints of works by symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), a seminal artist from the Vienna Secession movement. At the turn of the 20th century, he spent regular spells on the Attersees shores, painting many of his renown
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Tiergarten
Founded in 1752 as a menagerie by Franz Stephan, the Schönbrunn Tiergarten is the oldest zoo in the world. It houses some 750 animals of all shapes and sizes, including giant pandas, emus, armadillos and Siberian tigers. The zoo’s layout spokes out like bicycle wheel, with an octag
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Madame Tussauds Vienna
Opened in 2011, this waxwork wonderland in the Würstelprater is a stage for a host of sculpted celebrities – Nicole Kidman, Michael Jackson and Johnny Depp star among them. Other figures such as Emperor Franz Joseph and his beloved Sisi, Klimt, Freud and Falco give the experience a
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Schubert Sterbewohnung
Here, in his brother’s apartment, Franz Schubert spent his dying days (40 to be precise) in 1828. While dying of either typhoid fever or syphilis he continued to compose, scribbling out a string of piano sonatas and his last work, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock).
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Domkirche
The Domkirche dates from the 15th century, and became a cathedral in 1786. The interior combines Gothic and baroque elements, with reticulated vaulting on the ceiling; its highlights are Conrad Laibs panel painting Crucifixion in the Throng (1457) and the faded Gottesplagenbild fre
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DomQuartier
Salzburg shines more brightly than ever since the opening of the DomQuartier in 2014, showcasing the most fabulous baroque monuments and museums in the historic centre. A single ticket gives you access to the Residenz state rooms and gallery, the upper galleries of the Dom, the Dom
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Freilichtmuseum Petronell
The open-air museum is the major attraction in Petronell-Carnuntum itself and lies on the site of the old civilian town. It includes ruins of the public baths and a reconstructed temple of Diana. Hunky young actors lead tours in kitsch tunics and togas, and you can buy replicas of
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Burg Lockenhaus
Lockenhaus, in the centre of Burgenland, is famous for its castle , or more accurately, for its former resident Elizabeth Bäthory. Better known as the ‘Blood Countess’, she has gone down in history for her reign of terror early in the 17th century, when she reputedly tortured and m
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Kindermuseum
Schönbrunn’s Children’s Museum does what it knows best: imperialism. Activities and displays help kids discover the day-to-day life of the Habsburg court, and once they’ve got an idea, they can don princely or princessly outfits and start ordering the serfs (parents) around. Other
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Altstadt
Schwaz’ other big draw is its well-preserved Altstadt. Taking pride of place on pedestrianised Franz-Josef-Strasse, the Gothic Pfarrkirche immediately catches your eye with its step-gabled roof bearing 14,000 copper tiles. The web-vaulted interior purportedly harbours the largest s
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Pfarrkirche St Oswald
Seefeld’s trophy sight is this late-Gothic parish church, the supposed location of a miracle. The story goes that Oswald Milser gobbled a wafer reserved for the clergy at Easter communion here in 1384. After almost being swallowed up by the floor, the greedy layman repented, but th
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