Articles tagged with "Austria"
Austria is small and its weather is not uniform, because two thirds of it is mountain. Altitude matters more than the season on your calendar, and the list of alpine hazards the authorities publish applies in July as well as January.
Austria follows Schengen area rules, so the visa free allowance is counted across the whole area and not per country. Two separate tests apply to your passport and travelers fail the first one far more often than the second.
Austria has two travel calendars that barely overlap. The alpine west is governed by snow and by which mountain roads and lifts are open, and the eastern cities by a concert and market season that peaks when the weather is at its worst.
The Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape was inscribed in 1997 and covers 28,637 hectares. What is inscribed is a region and an industry, not the photograph everybody has seen.
The Historic Centre of Vienna was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2001 and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger on 6 July 2017. That second fact is the most interesting thing about it and a travel page would normally never tell you.
The Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996. It looks the way it does because it was not an Austrian provincial town but an independent state ruled by a prince-archbishop who hired Italian architects.