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Baroque Museum (Salzburger Barockmuseum)
Baroque Museum (Salzburger Barockmuseum) Set in the lovely Orangery of Mirabell Palace, Salzburg’s Baroque Museum hosts an unusual and rare collection of sketches by legendary artists of the Baroque era. The only museum to focus solely on preliminary artworks, the collection includes drawings and
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Bank Austria Kunstforum
Bank Austria Kunstforum Situated on Vienna’s lovely (and triangular) Freyung Square, the present incarnation of the Bank Austria Kunstforum dates from 1988 and was designed with a bizarre Art Deco entrance portal by architect Gustav Peichl. In recent years it has become a major player on the Vienn
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Austrian Theater Museum
Austrian Theater Museum The Austrian Theater Museum is found in the delightfully Baroque Lobkowitz Palace, steps away from the Schloss Schönbrunn, and is part of the Kunsthistorischen museums complex. Dating from the late 1690s, the Lobkowitz was one of the first urban palaces built in Vienna afte
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Alter Markt
Alter Markt Salzburg’s Old Market Square (or Alter Markt) dates way back to 1280. The medieval buildings have long since gone, replaced by grand Baroque townhouses that line the square. Take a seat at an outdoor cafe, or pick up some handmade chocolate Mozartkugeln balls at Fürst chocolatiers. Yo
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Alpenzoo Innsbruck
Alpenzoo Innsbruck Innsbruck’s innovative zoo lies along the sunny slopes of the Hungerburg plateau to the north of the city and is the only zoo in the world to feature animals indigenous to the Tyrol region – so if you’re after lions and tigers, this is not the place for you –along with amazing A
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Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der Bildende Kunst)
Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der Bildende Kunst) The Academy of Fine Arts, or Akademie der Bildende Kunst, may not be one of Viennas best known galleries, but the collection of paintings is nonetheless impressive and worth a visit. It concentrates on Flemish, Dutch and German painters including
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Schloss Hof
Schloss Hof The elegant Schloss Hof stands next to the River Morava in Marchfeld near the Austrian border with present-day Slovakia and was built as the country retreat of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who was an accomplished military strategist in the Austrian Imperial Army. The palace’s magnificent Ba
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Schladming
Schladming Schladming is cradled between the lush alpine tarns and valleys of the Dachstein massif and the Schladminger Tauern range in the Styrian Alps. Life started in this remote alpine spot back in the 14th century, when Schladming was a mining village, but today it is known as one of Austria’
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Grossglockner
Grossglockner The distinctive triangular peak of Grossglockner is the highest mountain in the Austrian Alps at 3,798 meters (12,460 feet); it’s located amid the Lakeland scenery of the Hohe Tauern National Park near Salzburg and its north-east slopes are clad by the Pasterze Glacier, which at nine
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Archaeological Park Carnuntum
Archaeological Park Carnuntum The Romans came to Austria in 200 BC and their legacy is visible all over the country, from Vienna to the banks of the River Danube. Some 1,700 years ago, Carnuntum was a military barracks by the side of the Danube and by the first century AD it had expanded into most
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Votivkirche (Votive Church)
Votivkirche (Votive Church) In Vienna’s Alsergrund district, the two imposing towers of the Votivkirche welcome travelers to the city. The Votive Church is one of the most important neo-Gothic buildings in the world and is the second highest building in the city, right after the St. Stephen’s Chur
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Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK)
Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK) The Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK) is one of the largest museums of modern and post-modern art in Central Europe. Founded in 1962, the museum features 10,000 pieces by 1,600 different artists, including some of the biggest names in 20th- and 21st-century art, like Andy W
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Hard Rock Cafe Vienna
Hard Rock Cafe Vienna In the 1980s travelers flocked to these popular rock and roll-themed cafes to collect iconic Hard Rock t-shirts from locations around the globe. And while that trend may have passed, the upscale bar, scenic outdoor terrace and huge live entertainment space still at Hard Rock
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Heiligenkreuz Abbey
Heiligenkreuz Abbey Less than a half hour from Vienna is the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the second-oldest Cistercian monastery in the world and the oldest continuously active and inhabited one. It was founded in 1133 by St. Leopold III and is located in the peaceful Vienna woods in Lower Austria. The Ci
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Augarten Porcelain Factory
Augarten Porcelain Factory The Augarten Porcelain Factory, founded in 1718 as the second oldest porcelain manufactory in Europe, has been making and painting porcelain by hand for nearly three centuries. One wing of the factory houses the Augarten Porcelain Museum, where visitors can see one of th
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Silent Night Chapel
Silent Night Chapel Silent Night is arguably one of the world’s best-loved Christmas carols and its words were written in 1816 by a priest called Josef Mohr, who lived locally to Salzburg in the rural village of Oberndorf. Its sentimental but catchy tune was composed two years later by Franz Xaver
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Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum The Jewish Museum in Vienna explores the history of the Jewish people in Vienna and Austria. The first Jewish museum in the city was established in 1895, but it was closed by the Nazis in 1938. The collections were confiscated, and about half of the items have never been recovered. T
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Austrian Parliament Building
Austrian Parliament Building The Austrian Parliament Building, a Greek-revival style building completed in 1883, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of Austria conduct their sittings. It is located in Vienna’s city center, close to the Hofburg Imperial Palace and the Palace of Justice. Despi
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Nonnberg Abbey
Nonnberg Abbey Nonnberg Abbey is a Benedictine nunnery with a landmark spire in the center of Salzburg and is perhaps best known throughout the world as the home of the troublesome novice nun Maria in The Sound of Music, the magical movie that celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015. The nunnery s
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Vienna Woods (Wienerwald)
Vienna Woods (Wienerwald) The Vienna Woods lie alongside the River Danube in the north of Vienna, a region of gentle forested uplands that roll northwards towards the foothills of the Austrian Alps. Originally hunting grounds for Viennese royalty, the region was forested in the 16th century, and t
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