100 Reasons to Visit Austria

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Salzburg is a city on the German border, with views of the Eastern Alps. It’s known as the birthplace of Mozart and setting for the film “The Sound of Music.” The city is divided by the Salzach River, with medieval and baroque buildings of the pedestrian Altstadt (Old City) on its left bank, and 19th-century Neustadt (New City) on the right.

Austria is home to a rich musical culture, filled with the sounds of Mozart, Schubert, and Strauss.

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Vienna is known as the wine capital, but Austria is also known for its Mostviertal, or cider region. They have Europe’s largest continuous area of pear orchards.

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Whether you're beginning, intermediate or advanced, Austria has just the slope for you and is a two time home of the Winter Olympics.

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Often mentioned as one of the most beautiful places to visit in Austria – if not Europe – this small scenic town overlooks the serene waters of the Hallstatt lake.

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The snow-topped mountains and tall colourful buildings of Innsbruck make it a postcard-worthy alpine destination.

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Alpbach has been voted the most beautiful village in Austria and it’s not difficult to see why.

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Named the "city’s stomach" by locals, the Naschmarkt is a food and flea market.

For such a small country, Austria doesn’t half have some varied weather

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The Mostviertel is Lower Austria’s most captivating region. It combines rolling green meadows in the North with snow-laced rugged peaks in the South.

Just 5km from Camping Bella Austria is the thunderous Günster Waterfall, the highest in the Styria region. A walkway and steps have been in place since 1906 to make viewing accessible.

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Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial summer residence located in Vienna. The 1,441-room Baroque palace is one of the most important architectural, cultural and historical monuments in the country.

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Hofburg Palace is the former imperial palace in the centre of Vienna.

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The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna.

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St. Stephen's Cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP.

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Tiergarten Schönbrunn, or “Vienna Zoo”, is a zoo located on the grounds of the famous Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.

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Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building.

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The Museumsquartier is a 60,000 m² large area in the 7th district of the city of Vienna.

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Hohensalzburg Castle sits atop the Festungsberg, a small hill in the Austrian city of Salzburg.

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The Museum of Natural History, also known as the NHMW, is a large natural history museum located in Vienna.

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The palace with its gardens is a listed cultural heritage monument and part of the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Hellbrunn Palace is an early Baroque villa of palatial size, near Morzg, a southern district of the city of Salzburg.

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The Vienna State Opera is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna.

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The Innere Stadt is the 1st municipal District of Vienna. The Innere Stadt is the Old Town of Vienna. Until the city boundaries were expanded in 1850, the Innere Stadt was congruent with the city of Vienna.

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The Goldenes Dachl is a landmark structure located in the Old Town section of Innsbruck.

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The Hofkirche is a Gothic church located in the Altstadt section of Innsbruck.

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The Jesuit Church, also known as the University Church, is a two-floor, double-tower church in Vienna.

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The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt of Vienna. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings.

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The Prater is a large public park in Vienna's 2nd district. The Wurstelprater amusement park, often simply called "Prater", stands in one corner of the Wiener Prater and includes the Wiener Riesenrad.

Leopoldstadt is the 2nd municipal District of Vienna

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The Spanish Riding School of Vienna, is a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses, which perform in the Winter Riding School in the Hofburg.

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Melk Abbey is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley.

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Ambras Castle is a Renaissance castle and palace located in the hills above Innsbruck. Ambras Castle is situated at an elevation of 587 meters.

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The Grossglockner is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic, the highest mountain of Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass.

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The Schloßberg or Schlossberg is a tree-clad hill, and the site of a fortress, in the centre of the city of Graz,.

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The Tyrolean Folk Art Museum is considered one of the finest regional heritage museums in Europe.

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The Wiener Riesenrad, or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna.

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Eggenberg Palace in Graz is the most significant Baroque palace complex in Styria.

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Nonnberg Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg.

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The Petersfriedhof or St. Peter's Cemetery is - together with the burial site at Nonnberg Abbey.

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Hangar-7 in Salzburg, owned by Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz is not a hangar in a traditional sense but rather a multifunctional building with a collection of 25 historical airplanes, helicopters and Formula One racing cars.

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The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, built after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser with architect Joseph Krawina as a co-author.

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The Styrian Armoury, in the Austrian city of Graz, is the world's largest historic armoury and attracts visitors from all over the world. It holds approximately 32,000 pieces of weaponry, tools, suits of armour for battle and ones for parades.

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The Murinsel in Graz, is actually not an island at all, but an artificial floating platform in the middle of the Mur river.

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Hoher Dachstein is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria, and is the highest point in each of those states.

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Karlskirche is a baroque church located on the south side of Karlsplatz in Vienna.

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The Pöstlingbergbahn is a narrow-gauge electric railway, or "mountain tramway", in Linz.

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Schloss Leopoldskron is a rococo palace and a national historic monument in Leopoldskron-Moos, a southern district of the city of Salzburg.

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The Leopold Museum, housed in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl.

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Klosterneuburg Monastery is a twelfth-century Augustinian monastery of the Roman Catholic Church located in the town of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria.

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The Hohe Tauern or High Tauern are a mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass.

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Wolfgangsee is a lake in Austria that lies mostly within the state of Salzburg and is one of the best known lakes in the Salzkammergut resort region.

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It is the largest lake within the federal state, and has a maximal depth of 133 metres.

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Lake Faak is a lake in the Austrian state of Carinthia. With an area of approximately 2.2 km², it is the state's fifth-largest lake.

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Arlberg is a mountain range or massif between Vorarlberg and Tyrol. The highest peak is the "Valluga" at 2,811 metres.

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Lake Millstatt is a lake in Carinthia.

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The Ring Road is a circular road surrounding the Innere Stadt district of Vienna and is one of its main sights. Its architecture is typical of the eclectic, historicist style called Ringstraßenstil of the 1860s to 1890s.

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The Austrian Alps are blessed with a long and lavish snow season. The snow on the ground is generally powdery and fluffy well into spring.

The arches of the train line running overhead have mostly been turned into bars, with the stretch between Westbahnhof and Nussdorferstrasse stations particularly boisterous.

In late November and December, the ruddy of cheek and their chestnut-selling predators descend on Spittelberg for the most atmospheric of Vienna's Christmas markets.

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Simply utterly breath taking scenery on the boat - expensive but a definite must.

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Next to the pilgrimage church in Grossgmain there is a very special garden. It's called Mariengarten, garden dedicated to Mary.

This is the Pavillon on Karlsplatz, that used to be a "Stadtbahn"-station once and while it's equivalent is used as a cafe, this one is a great museum with changing exhibitions.

The highlight of the Augustine Monastery is the beer hall in the lower levels.

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This place was opened in 1873 and it is consider one of the most famous and traditional cafés in Vienna.

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It is a Memorial place to think of all the victims of the Holocaust. Almost every school kid visits this place at least once.

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Playing chess in the center of old town Salzburg. The pieces are about 3 feet tall.

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Ruine Aggstein is a medieval castle of robber-barons in the Danube-valley between Melk and Krems.

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Ehrenhausen in Southern Austria, near town of Leibnitz, is too cute to be missed.

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Austria is a real gem when it comes to biking. Major paths lead along picturesque rivers and glittering lakes, all well-signposted with wonderful stop-off opportunities along the way.

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Opened in 1971, the Sigmund Freud Museum is set in the apartment where Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, lived and worked from 1898 until 1938, when he was forced into exile by the Nazis.

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Built on the site of Franz Stephan’s royal menagerie (1752), on the western side of the gardens, the Tiergarten is the world’s oldest zoo.