Travel Destinations in Austria — City Guides | Trevio

Austria punches dramatically above its weight. Vienna is one of the world's great imperial capitals: the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Belvedere, the Spanish Riding School, the Opera, the Naschmarkt, and a coffeehouse tradition (Wiener Kaffeehaus) that shaped intellectual culture from Freud to Wittgenstein. The city is also consistently ranked among the world's most liveable — efficient, clean, and extraordinarily rich in culture.

Salzburg gives the world Mozart and the Sound of Music, but also a beautifully preserved Baroque old town beneath a fortress-topped hill. The Alpine regions — Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Carinthia — are among Europe's premier ski destinations in winter and hiking territories in summer. Austria is an easy country to travel: excellent rail connections, high standards of hospitality, and a landscape that is, in a very literal sense, composed.