Festival & Events Travel Guide

Picture choosen by : Miss.Clare Anderson Unforgottable day in Austria Austria is full of music, mountains and memories of its imperial past. There is magnificent scenery around every corner — vineyards, ancient castles and abbeys overlooking the Danube River, wooded hills rising out of lush farmlands, lakes dotted with sailboats and ringed by soaring mountains, alpine peaks and their icy world of glaciers reaching for the sky. Austria has more castles and palaces open to visitors than any other comparable area in Europe. Great museums and churches harbour the most significant art treasures from many periods and styles. One is surrounded by history and can trace events dating back to the Romans, Charlemagne, Emperor Maximilian, the Turks, the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War, Empress Maria Theresa, Napoleon, Emperor Franz Joseph and General Patton. Hardly any other country is associated with the term "culture" as much as Austria is. Although its former imperial power now belongs to the past, Austria is still one of the world's leading cultural nations. The variety of cultural manifestations all year round - from classical and contemporary music to theatre, architecture and the fine arts - gives you a great variety of events to choose from to give your holiday that cultural touch!