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A Week in Salzburg A Week in
and the Salzkammergut Eastern Austria
• Admire the splendid • Spend a day discovering • Spend a couple of days

Baroque architecture the enchanting, historic exploring Vienna, Austria’s
and pay tribute to the town of Hallstatt. compelling capital.
city’s most famous • Venture into the world of • Head south towards the
inhabitant, Mozart, in the Emperor Franz Josef I by Neusiedler See, a reed-
lovely city of Salzburg.
visiting his favourite spa fringed habitat for rare birds.
• Tour the stately home resort, Bad Ischl. • Explore the provincial

of Schloss Hellbrunn capital St Pölten and the
before heading for the • Visit the pretty lakeside sumptuously decorated
ice caves at Werfen. communities of the abbey at Melk.
Traunsee.
• Marvel at the Gothic art • Follow the Danube riverbank
and beautiful lakes-and- • Explore Salzkammergut’s through the historic towns
mountains landscapes quieter corners around of Wachau.
around Wolfgangsee. Bad Aussee.
• Enjoy a lazy tour of the low
hills and scramble through the
dense woods of Waldviertel.
• Stroll through the leafy
Gmünd
Schloss pathways of the Vienna
Rosenburg
Woods (Wienerwald).
Zwettl Waldviertel
Dürnstein Krems
Tulln
Wachau
D anube Vienna Vienna Danube
Traun Melk St
Woods
Pölten Hinterbrühl Gumpoldskirchen
Gmunden Neusiedler
Salzach
Eisenstadt See
Traunsee Rust
Salzburg Wolfgangsee Traunkirchen Seewinkel
National Park
Schloss Bad Ischl Ems AUSTRIA
Hellbrunn Hallein Bad Aussee
Kufstein
Hallstatt Dachstein Caves
Kitzbühel Werfen Bruck an der Mur
Leoben
Seefeld
Pinzgau Zell am See
Lech Inn Innsbruck Oberwölz Mur Bad Blumau
Arlberg St Anton Ötztal Zillertal Krimmler Murau
Wasserfälle
Pass Graz
Sölden Friesach Riegersburg
Gurk
Obergurgl Millstätter
See Hochoster-
Spittal an witz
Drau
der Drau
Wörthersee A Week in Southern Austria
Villach Klagenfurt
Velden
• See the rich collections to medieval Friesach
of antiquities and and the fine Romanesque
contemporary art in cathedral at Gurk.
museum-filled Graz. • Visit the dramatic fortress
• Head to the hills east of of Hochosterwitz; end
Graz to Riegersburg, one the day in the Carinthian
of Styria’s greatest castles. capital of Klagenfurt.
• Follow the Mur river • Take to the road or the
Key
to Murau, a historic water to tour Wörthersee,
Eastern Austria town nestled in the Austria’s glitziest summer-
Salzburg and the shadow of the Niedere holiday lake.
Salzkammergut Tauern mountains. • Continue the Carinthian
Southern Austria • Explore the valleys of lake tour and discover the

Austrian Alps northern Carinthia, home charming Millstätter See.
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