Page 12 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Austria

10  INTRODUCING A USTRIA

DISCOVERING AUSTRIA

The following tours have been designed to the regional itineraries that follow. There are
take in as many of the country’s highlights as four tours, each lasting a week, which cover
possible, while keeping long-distance travel the forests and vineyards of Eastern Austria,
manageable. The first tour outlined on the the historic treasures and sub-Alpine hills of
pages that follow is a 2-day tour of Austria’s Southern Austria, Salzburg and the lakes-and-
fascinating capital, Vienna, a city packed with mountains wonderland of Salzkammergut,
monuments, family attractions and cultural and the stunning highland scenery of the
diversions. This itinerary can be done as a Austrian Alps. Choose and combine tours or
stand-alone tour or combined with any of dip in and out and be inspired.

0 kilometres 50
Gmünd
0 miles 50 Schloss
Rosenburg
Zwettl Waldviertel
Dürnstein Krems
Tulln
Wachau
D anube Vienna Vienna Danube
Traun Melk St
Woods
Wolfgangsee, the Salzkammergut Pölten Hinterbrühl Gumpoldskirchen
Set against an impressive mountain backdrop, this 15-km- (9-mile-) Salzach
long lake, with its emerald green waters, is one of the most charming Gmunden Eisenstadt Neusiedler
See
lakes in the Salzkammergut region. Traunsee Rust
Salzburg Wolfgangsee Traunkirchen Seewinkel
National Park
Schloss
A Week in the Hellbrunn Hallein Bad Ischl Ems AUSTRIA
Austrian Alps Kufstein Bad Aussee
Hallstatt Dachstein Caves
Kitzbühel Werfen
• Spend a day sightseeing in Bruck an der Mur

Leoben
Innsbruck, the historic Seefeld
capital of the Austrian Tyrol. Pinzgau Zell am See
Lech Inn Innsbruck Mur Bad Blumau
• Feast on the scenic beauty of Oberwölz
Arlberg St Anton Ötztal Zillertal Krimmler Murau
Seefeld, an idyllic village set Pass Wasserfälle Graz
amid cow-grazed pastures. Sölden Friesach Riegersburg
Gurk
• Venture into the most Obergurgl Millstätter

dramatic of Austria’s Alpine Drau Spittal an See Hochoster-
witz
valleys, the Ötztal. der Drau Wörthersee
• Explore the Arlberg Pass Villach Velden Klagenfurt
region, home to the chic
mountain resorts of St Anton
and Lech.
• Spend a day hiking in
the hills around Kitzbühel,
surrounded by some of Tyrol’s
most spectacular peaks.
• Stroll through the meadows

and barns of Pinzgau
before visiting the foaming Melk Abbey, Eastern Austria
Krimmler Wasserfälle. Perched spectacularly on a
rocky outcrop overlooking
• Take a ride on a steam train the Danube, the magnificent
and marvel at the all-year Baroque Melk Abbey is one
glaciers in Zillertal. of the country’s most
stunning attractions.
Watercolour of the area around the Neo-Gothic town hall, Neues Rathaus, Vienna
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Eyewitness Travel LAYERS PRINTED:
Country itinerary map template “UK” LAYER
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Date 26th November 2012
Size 125mm x 217mm