Salzburg
A real architectural hotchpotch, Salzburg’s Franciscan church has a Romanesque nave, a Gothic choir with rib vaulting and a baroque marble altar (one of…
Must-see attractions in Austria
Salzburg
Baroque master Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach designed this graceful church on the city's right bank. It's famous for Johann Michael Rottmayr’s dome…
Salzburg
If you wish it could be Christmas every day, swing on over to this museum. The private collection brings festive sparkle in the form of advent calendars,…
Salzburg
Kids can come face to face with lions, flamingos and alpine ibex at the Salzburg Zoo, near Schloss Hellbrunn at the foot of Hellbrunn's cliffs. The zoo is…
Innsbruck
Guards once kept watch over the city from this onion-domed tower, which was completed in 1450. Puff up 148 steps for 360-degree views of Innsbruck's…
Graz
The Folk Life Museum is devoted to folk art and social history. Highlights include 2000 years of traditional clothing in an exhibition that brings…
Salzburg
The showpiece of baroque Residenzplatz is this enormous marble fountain ringed by four water-spouting horses and topped by Triton bearing a conch shell.
Klagenfurt
Climb the 225 steps of this baroque church's 90m-high tower for a bird’s-eye view of town and the surrounding mountains. Down in the church there are some…
The Salzkammergut
North of the Rathausplatz lies the 12th-century Pfarrkirche, a Gothic church later remodelled in baroque style. The altar, by the sculptor Thomas…
The Danube Valley
A fabulously evocative castle ruin from the 12th-century, set high above the Danube. The views from the ramparts are worth the climb and various events…
Villach
The neo-Gothic church of St Nikolai might not have any real medieval cred, but what it lacks in age it makes up for in charm with its rustic Tyrolean…
Hallstatt
Celtic and Roman excavations can be seen downstairs in Dachsteinsport Janu, where there's a free exhibition that gets a little kitsch at times but…
Salzburg
Designed by Fischer von Erlach in 1693, this is a horse-lover’s delight, with rearing equine pin-ups surrounding Michael Bernhard Mandl’s statue of a…
Graz
This small museum has a permanent collection featuring objects from city history, complemented by changing exhibitions. Check the website for what's…
Tyrol
This reconstructed salt mine, complete with galleries, tools and shafts, can only be visited by 40-minute guided tour. Salt was mined in the valley for…
Museum Mondseeland und Pfahlbaumuseum
Mondsee
Next door to the parish church, this museum has displays on Stone Age finds and the monastic culture of the region (Mondsee is a very old monastery site).
The Danube Valley
This parish church combines Gothic and baroque elements, along with the wonderful 13th-century frescoed Romanesque funerary chapel.
The Salzkammergut
This palace contains a good collection of Meissen porcelain, silver and jewellery, and has specialised temporary exhibitions dedicated to the same.
The Danube Valley
Alongside the tourist office, the rococo Minorite church from 1739 is decorated with magnificent ceiling frescoes dedicated to St Johannes Nepomuk.
Salzburg
A real attention-grabber on Kapitelplatz, this gigantic golden globe by German artist Stephan Balkenhol is topped by a statue of a man.
Villach
Climb Carinthia's highest church tower for bird's eye views of Villach and its dramatic alpine surroundings.
The Danube Valley
Directly below the church, the tiny, pretty Wachau Museum showcases artists of the Danube School.
Krems an der Donau
Stein's pretty and impressive central square: look for the 18th-century Steinerathaus.
Vienna
Opposite Dr-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz is the Jesuitenkirche, formerly the university church, which dates from 1627. In 1703 this church received a baroque…
Vienna
Today Vienna's most elegant shopping street, Graben began life as a ditch dug by the Romans to protect Vinodoba. In 1192 Leopold V filled in the ditch and…
Vienna
This small expanse of Roman ruins dating from the 1st to the 5th century CE is thought to be part of the officers’ quarters of the Roman legion camp at…
Vienna
A problem zone due to flooding, the Wien River needed regulating in the late-19th century. At the same time, Otto Wagner had visions of turning the area…
Vienna
The oft-overlooked Esperantomuseum is mostly devoted to the artificial language created by Dr Ludvik Zamenhof in 1887. The first book in Esperanto, by Dr…
Vienna
Part of the Nationalbibliothek museum ensemble, along with the Esperantomuseum and Globenmuseum, the Papyrus Museum displays an interesting collection of…
Vienna
Dominating the Serviten quarter (a small confluence of cobblestone streets lined with bars, restaurants and shops a few blocks from the Ringstrasse), the…
Vienna
The marble-cased and metal-'studded' Post Office Savings Bank building is the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) work of Otto Wagner, who oversaw its construction…
Vienna
Greek merchants settled around Fleischmarkt from about 1700, which gradually became known as the Griechenviertel (Greek quarter). Today it has some…
The Danube Valley
Of the picturesque 16th-century houses and other prominent buildings lining Dürnstein’s streets, the meticulously restored Chorherrenstift is the most…
Vienna
Designed by Adolf Loos, this modernist gem put Franz Josef’s nose seriously out of joint when it was completed in 1911. Its intentionally simple facade…
Vienna
Before moving to the site of the Hofburg in the late 13th century, the ruling family the Babenbergs resided on this large square. Rising up in the centre…
Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes
Vienna
Housed in the Altes Rathaus (Old City Hall), this centre documents the little-known antifascist resistance force that operated during the Nazi regime;…
Vienna
Now the Croatian Catholic Church, this former Jesuit monastery on the southeast side of Am Hof has a baroque facade adapted from its fire-damaged Gothic…
Vienna
Built by Hildebrandt in 1716, Palais Kinsky has a classic baroque facade; its highlight is an elaborate, three-storey stairway off to the left of the…
Vienna
Here, in his brother’s apartment, Franz Schubert spent his dying days (40 to be precise) in 1828. While dying of either typhoid fever or syphilis (his…
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