A magnificent baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, with a gilded church and a stunning library. It's the gateway to the Wachau, a UNESCO-listed stretch of the Danube valley with terraced vineyards, apricot orchards, castles and wine villages such as Dürnstein, where Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned.
Take a boat down the Danube from Melk to Krems, or cycle the Danube Cycle Path. Melk is about an hour by train from Vienna.
The Habsburgs' 1,441-room summer palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where Empress Maria Theresa, Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth (Sisi)…
The Hofburg was the Habsburgs' winter palace for more than 600 years, now home to the Austrian president and several museums: the Imperial Apartments…
Vienna's Gothic cathedral, the symbol of the city, with a roof of coloured glazed tiles in a zigzag pattern and the eagles of the Habsburgs, and a 13…
Two baroque palaces built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, facing each other across terraced gardens.
The Giant Ferris Wheel (Riesenrad), built in 1897, turns slowly in the Prater amusement park, its red wooden cabins rising 65 m over Vienna.
A wooded hill in the middle of Graz, Austria's second city, crowned by the Clock Tower (Uhrturm), the symbol of the city.
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