Austria is an Alpine heartland where imperial cities meet soaring peaks. Vienna brims with palaces, coffee houses and concert halls; Graz and Linz add baroque squares and modern art. South and west, Tyrol and the Salzkammergut deliver glacier hikes, turquoise lakes and ski runs. Music shadows you everywhere, from Mozart to the New Year concert, and Sachertorte and Heuriger wine taverns reward the appetite. Compact and effortlessly scenic, it shifts from city culture to…
“The Sound of Music” (1965) sang the hills of Salzburg; Vienna carried the romance of “Before Sunrise” (1995).
The snow globe was invented in Vienna in 1900 by Erwin Perzy, who was originally trying to improve a surgical lamp.
Skip crowded Hallstatt for the Wachau valley. An eSIM helps: the ÖBB app for on-time trains, Google Maps and real-time Alpine weather.