Curated Itinerary
A September Week in Austria: Ten Heritage Sites
Travel tips from CHOIn September, the doors that are usually shut openFor one long weekend every September, some fifty European […]
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Historic Centre of Vienna – Virtual Tour 360°
The imperial capital of the Habsburg dynasty and the most culturally dense city in Central Europe — Vienna contains within a single pedestrian circuit the…
Schönbrunn Palace – Virtual Tour 360°
The Habsburgs' summer palace is where the dynasty did its living rather than its governing: Maria Theresa raised sixteen children here, Mozart played here at six, and in 1918 the last emperor signed away his part in government in a small blue salon.
Secession Building — Vienna
Joseph Maria Olbrich's white cube crowned by a gilded laurel-leaf dome: the building that declared Vienna's break with academic tradition and gave an entire…
Wachau Cultural Landscape – Virtual Tour 360°
Austria’s most celebrated river valley and one of the great wine landscapes of the world — the Wachau, a 36 km stretch of the Danube between Melk and Krems…
Melk Abbey Library, Austria
The golden library of the Danube's rock - Prandtauer's baroque crown over the Wachau, where Umberto Eco's narrator took his name.
Historic Centre of Salzburg
The most complete Baroque city north of the Alps — the Archbishop-Princes of Salzburg rebuilt their city in Italian Baroque between 1587 and 1753, employing…
Hallstatt — The Salt Mine That Named the Iron Age – Virtual Tour 360°
A UNESCO World Heritage village wedged between an Alpine lake and a vertical mountain face in Austria's Salzkammergut, above which lies the world's oldest…
Ambras Castle
Ambras Castle is a Renaissance castle and palace set in the hills above Innsbruck, Austria, at 632 metres above sea level. Built in the 16th century on the…
Semmering Railway – Virtual Tour 360°
The world’s first mountain railway built with steam traction and the first railway ever placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List — the Semmering Railway…
Historic Centre of Graz
Austria’s most architecturally layered historic city and the largest surviving Renaissance city centre in the German-speaking world — Graz, the capital of…
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