Attractions
Belvedere Palace and Klimt's The Kiss, Vienna
Vienna
Two baroque palaces built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, facing each other across terraced gardens.
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Natural features
Eisriesenwelt Ice Cave
Werfen, Salzburg
The world's largest ice cave, running 42 km into the Tennengebirge mountains above Werfen, with its first kilometre filled with spectacular ice forma…
Tours and activities
Grossglockner High Alpine Road
Heiligenblut, Carinthia
A spectacular toll road over the Alps, 48 km with 36 hairpin bends, climbing to 2,504 m, built in the 1930s.
Historic sites
Hallstatt
Upper Austria
A village of old houses squeezed between a lake and steep mountains in the Salzkammergut, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most photograph…
Historic sites
Hohensalzburg Fortress and Old Town, Salzburg
Salzburg
One of the largest medieval castles in Europe, standing above Salzburg's baroque old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Buildings
Melk Abbey and the Wachau Valley
Melk, Lower Austria
A magnificent baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, with a gilded church and a stunning library.
Buildings
Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna
Hietzing, Vienna
The Habsburgs' 1,441-room summer palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where Empress Maria Theresa, Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth (Sisi)…
Attractions
Golden Roof and Nordkette, Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tyrol
Innsbruck, capital of the Tyrol, is a city with mountains on its doorstep.
Historic sites
Hofburg and the Spanish Riding School, Vienna
Innere Stadt, Vienna
The Hofburg was the Habsburgs' winter palace for more than 600 years, now home to the Austrian president and several museums: the Imperial Apartments…
Natural features
Krimml Waterfalls
Krimml, Salzburg
Austria's highest waterfalls, plunging 380 m in three stages in the Hohe Tauern National Park.
Attractions
Prater and the Giant Ferris Wheel, Vienna
Vienna
The Giant Ferris Wheel (Riesenrad), built in 1897, turns slowly in the Prater amusement park, its red wooden cabins rising 65 m over Vienna.
Historic sites
Schlossberg, Graz
Graz, Styria
A wooded hill in the middle of Graz, Austria's second city, crowned by the Clock Tower (Uhrturm), the symbol of the city.
Buildings
St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
Vienna
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…