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Wallfahrtskirche St Vinzenz
As though cupped in celestial hands and held up to the mighty Alps, this 15th-century pilgrimage church lifts gazes, and spirits. Inside is a tabernacle which purportedly contains a tiny phial of Christ’s blood; hence the village name (Heiligenblut means ‘holy blood’). Legend has i
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Palais Daun
Built by Hildebrandt in 1716, Palais Kinsky has a classic baroque facade and its highlight is an elaborate three-storey stairway off to the left of the first inner courtyard, with elegant bannisters graced with statues at every turn. The ceiling fresco is a fanciful creation filled
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Church of St James
This Gothic creation, built in 1407, contains very faded 15th-century frescoes on the east wall of a giant St Christopher carrying the Christ Child, Mary Misericordia sheltering supplicants under a massive cloak, and the three magi bearing their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrr
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New Synagogue
Past the Old Synagogue, if youre walking down Új utca from the Scarbantia Forum, youll also come across the New Synagogue across the street. Both synagogues were built in the 14th century, and are among the greatest Jewish Gothic monuments in Europe and are unique in Hungary. The N
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Porsche Museum Helmut Pfeifhofer
An unexpected sight in Gmünd is the Porsche Museum Helmut Pfeifhofer . A Porsche factory operated here from 1944 to 1950 and the first car to bear that famous name (a 356) was handmade here. One of these models is on display (only 52 were built), together with about 15 other models
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TheaterMuseum
Housed in the baroque Lobkowitz palace (1694), this museum has a permanent exhibition devoted to Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), and temporary exhibitions on Viennas theatre history. A small room hidden towards the back of the 1st floor contains an ensemble of puppets
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Beinhaus
This small charnel house contains rows of neatly stacked skulls, painted with decorative designs and the names of their former owners. Bones have been exhumed from the overcrowded graveyard since 1600, and the last skull in the collection was added in 1995. It stands in the ground
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Rollett Museum
The Rollett Museum, southwest of the town centre and just off Weilburgstrasse (a five-minute walk southeast of the Thermalstrandbad), covers important aspects of the town’s history. The most unusual exhibit is the collection of skulls, busts and death masks amassed by the founder o
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Landesgalerie
Housed in a sumptuous late 19th-century building, the Landesgalerie focuses on 20th- and 21st-century paintings, photography and installations. The rotating exhibitions often zoom in on works by Upper Austrian artists, such as Alfred Kubins expressionist fantasies and Valie Exports
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Unteres Belvedere
Built between 1714 and 1716, Lower Belvedere is a treat of baroque delights. Highlights include Prince Eugene’s former residential apartment and ceremonial rooms, the Groteskensaal (Hall of the Grotesque; now the museum shop), a second Marmorsaal (Marble Hall), the Marmorgalerie (M
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Cathedral Pummerin
With the imperial purse withering and Gothic styles losing their allure, work on a second tower on Stephansdom was abandoned and in 1579 the half-completed north tower (Nordturm) was given a Renaissance cupola. Austria’s largest bell, weighing in at a hefty 21 tonnes, is the Pummer
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Formerly known as Universitätsplatz (University Square), this was once the heart of Vienna’s old university quarter. Today, the Austrian Academy of the Sciences is located inside the Alte-Uni (Old Uni) building. An early university was built here in the 1420s, but the current build
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Synagogue
Evidence of Sopron’s Jewish past can be seen at the crumbling synagogue east of the Inner Town, boarded up and falling into disrepair. A plaque tells passers-by that ‘1640 martyrs’ were taken from here to Auschwitz on 5 July 1944. A Holocaust memorial across the street, erected wit
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Schloss Porcia & Museum für Volkskultur
Boasting an eye-catching Renaissance edifice, Schloss Porcia was built between 1533 and 1597 by the fabulously named Graf von Salamanca-Ortenburg. Inside, Italianate arcades run around a central courtyard used for summer theatre performances. The top floors contain the enormous Loc
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Haydnhaus
Though modest, the exhibition in Haydn’s last residence was revamped in 2009 and focuses on Vienna as well as London during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Haydn lived in Vienna during the heady times of Napoleon’s occupation. An Austrian composer prominent in the classical
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Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
Housed in the Rosenthal villa, this museum zooms in on Hohenems’ long-defunct Jewish community with photos, documents and religious artefacts. The Rosenthals built up a considerable textile business in the town, and part of their wealth – especially gorgeous period furniture – is a
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Burg Mauterndorf
The centrepiece of the village Mauterndorf is medieval Burg Mauterndorf . Dominating a rocky outcrop, this 13th-century castle was built by the archbishops of Salzburg on the site of a Roman fort. The castle now houses a regional museum and provides the backdrop for various cultura
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Burg Hasegg
Stepping south of the medieval centre is the Burg Hasegg, where a spiral staircase coils up to the 5th floor for far-reaching views over Hall. The castle had a 300-year career as a mint for silver Thalers (coins, the root of the modern word ‘dollar’), and this history is unravelled
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Engelszell
The little riverside village of Engelhartszell an der Donau is home to one of only eight licensed Trappist breweries outside Belgium, and the only one in Austria. At the 1293-founded abbey Engelszell, you can purchase monk-made brews (dark Gregorius, amber Benno, and blond Nivard);
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Dachstein Eispalast
Situated in a crevice of the Dachstein Glacier at the sheer cliff face of the mountains, the Eispalast creates the strange effect of walking through an enormous, hollow ice cube. A gondola , one of the worlds most spectacular, whisks you up and terminates with a vertical thrust at
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