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Mauthausen
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...
zdenko 31 Oct 2011 Hits:86 Mauthausen
Leoben, Austria
Leoben is another of those unprepossessing towns that reveal a few surprises once you dig down into its modest urban soul. A revamped museum quarter is one very good reason...
zdenko 31 Oct 2011 Hits:137 Leoben
Burg Hochosterwitz
This fairytale fortress (it claims to be the inspiration for the castle in Sleeping Beauty) drapes itself around the slopes of a hill, with 14 gate towers on the path...
zdenko 31 Oct 2011 Hits:40 Burg Hochosterwitz
Burg Forchtenstein
Straddling a dolomite spur some 20km southwest of Eisenstadt, Burg Forchtenstein (02626-812 12; www.burg-forchtenstein.at, in German; Melinda Esterházy-Platz 1; guided tour of castle & arsenal adult/student & child/family €7/6/20, treasury...
zdenko 31 Oct 2011 Hits:199 Burg Forchtenstein
Bruck An Der Mur, Austria
Bruck, at the confluence of the Mur and Mürz rivers, is the Mur valley’s first real town and an important railway junction for Styria. Although its attractions are limited, it’s...
zdenko 31 Oct 2011 Hits:179 Bruck am de Mur
Braunau Am Inn
A stone’s throw from Germany, Braunau am Inn is a favourite pit-stop for cyclists pedalling the Inn Trail to Innsbruck. This border town has achieved unwanted attention as the birthplace...
zdenko 31 Oct 2011 Hits:194 Braunau Am Inn
Graz, Austria
Introducing Graz Austria’s second-largest city is possibly Austria’s most relaxed, and after Vienna it is also Austria’s liveliest for after-hours pursuits. It’s an attractive place with bristling green parkland,...
zdenko 29 Sep 2011 Hits:404 Graz
Salzburg, Austria
Introducing Salzburg A shrine to Mozart’s melodies? A Sound of Music stage? A Disneyfied city with scrumptious cakes, sugar-coated mountains and one helluva fortress? Yep, Salzburg is undeniably...
zdenko 29 Sep 2011 Hits:353 Salzburg
Vienna,Austria
Introducing Vienna Few cities in the world glide so effortlessly between the present and the past like Vienna. Its splendid historical face is easily recognised: grand imperial palaces...
zdenko 29 Sep 2011 Hits:384 Wienna
