Experience the diversity of Austria and let yourself be pampered with typically alpine-country hospitality. Enjoy sports and activity while hiking, skiing or snowboarding.
And if you’re looking for relaxation and recreation for body and mind, then Austria’s thermal spas are exactly what you need.
Wintery holiday fun for every taste – as only Austria can offer!
The diversity of holiday and recreational offers in holiday paradise Austria is simply limitless. Whether action-seeking youths or culture-hungry town travellers , whether sports-lovers or connoiseurs of culinary delicacies: Austria’s cities and regions are a treasure for every whim and fancy all year round, and invite you to visit...and visit again.
The great Austrian actor and director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) once said, "God created the world, but Man created a second world for himself – Art." But what would comedy and tragedy, operas and operettes, cabarets and musicals be without the right ambiance, the proper setting for the performance. The innumerable Austrian music stages and theatres offer just such a setting and extend a warm welcome.
The Vienna Boys' Choir is one of the oldest boys' choirs existing in the world. For nearly five hundred years they have been a symbol of Austria.
A foundation charter issued by Maximilian I in 1498 called the first dozen boys to the imperial court as members of the newly formed court music band. Thus he showed his great interest in contemporary musical developments in Burgundy and the Netherlands. Since then the Vienna Boys' Choir has been a fixed attraction in Austrian musical life. A number of famous musicians have emerged from its ranks. Its first-class training has produced numerous highly qualified vocalists, violinists and pianists.
Austria offers a great number of architecturally impressive and culturally historically significant constructions. They range from sacred constructions such as churches and monasteries to castles and palaces, and to secular and functional buildings such as museums, administration buildings and much more. The development of architecture and Austria's varied history have brought forth buildings of various styles and functional purposes. The fact that Austrian contemporary architecture is well-known far beyond the country's borders is also an indication of this cultural form's actuality and vitality.
The museum in its present form is a child of enlightenment. Although there were art collections in early years, these were privately owned, however, and were not open to the public. Beginning in the 18th century, one began to slowly realize the importance of this form of education and opened more and more collections to a wider audience. In Austria this development began with Emperor Franz I. Stephan, Maria Theresia's husband. He appointed experts as curators for the imperial collections and also promoted the expansion of the collections through purchase and research expeditions.
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