Travel to Austria

Mirabellgarten

The visitors will delight in taking a walk through the magical gardens surrounding Schloss Mirabell, a fantastic pleasure palace erected by Archbishop Wolf Dietrich in 1606. The park contains a stunning array of fountains, statues, balustrades and trees, and presents a kaleidoscope of colours which will take the breath away. Everyday life seems to melt into the background when faced with mythical figures like Helena and Paris, Hercules and Antaeus, Persephone and Hades, Kronos and Bacchus. Admission is free.

Mountainbike-Tour Gaisberg

Until the middle of the 20th century, a railway line led up to the top of Mount Gaisberg . This railway line has now been turned into a path which is great for mountain bikers. The tour starts in the district of Aigen in Salzburg: follow Ernst-Grein-Straße until you get to Gännsbrunnstraße; continue past the barrier  and you are immediately out in the fields which lead up to the peak of the mountain. The trip should take about 1-2 hours. Cyclists can stop for a well-deserved drink and bite to eat in the hut on top of the mountain.

Neue Universität

Every building designed by the architect Hans Hollein seems a bit too manneristic and representative for the tasks of a modern building. There are discussions about this every time Hollein designs a building in Austria. A wonderful example of the dissension of representation, the fondness for big dimensions and the claims of users is the Science Faculty, constructed in the 1980's and quickly dubbed 'Hitler's Palmhouse'. This can be reached in about half an hour from the city centre on foot. Extremely nice recreation area around the building.

Mirabellgarten

All year visitors will feel the pleasure of taking a walk through the magical gardens surrounding Schloss Mirabell, a fantastic pleasure palace erected by Archbishop Wolf Dietrich in 1606. The park contains a stunning array of fountains, statues, balustrades and trees, and presents a kaleidoscope of colours which will take the breath away. Everyday life seems to melt into the background when faced with mythical figures like Helena and Paris, Hercules and Antaeus, Persephone and Hades, Kronos and Bacchus.

Salzburger Dom

Salzburg's cathedral is the biggest one of the city's 36 churches and serves as the backdrop for the annualJedermann Festival. The building we can see today is the third on the site and was erected in 1620-28, during the chaos of the Thirty Years' War. The admission is free.

Müllner Kirche

The Müllner Kirche is situated at the northern end of the Panoramaweg, which leads over the Mönchsberg. The XV century church's interior is decorated with an early rococco style. In the three side chapels there are altar pictures from the XVII century. The church is connected to a neighbouring monastery by an arch and the monastery is acutually famous for its beer and the Müllner Bräu (Mülln brewery) restaurant.

Mozarts Geburtshaus

Salzburg is forever associated with its most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the house on Getreidegasse,m in which Mozart was born on 27 January, 1756, is by far and away the city's crowd-puller. The mansion has became the Mozart Museum, which shows the visitors an amazinf as well as realistic insight into the life and times of one of the world's greatest composers. Objects on display include Mozart's violin's, harpsichord and piano, as well as numerous other memorabilia.

Das Haller Rathaus

The impressive historic townhall is placed approx. 10 km from Innsbruck, in the centre of the old-city of Hall, Tyrol. It is found directly on Oberer Stadtplatz. The building has served as the townhall since 1406 when Duke Leopold IV gave it as a gift to the city of Hall

Bergbaumuseum

This museum is placed in the historic city of Hall, approximately 10km outside of Innsbruck. It is a reproduction of the former salt mine in close to Halltal, which was shutted down in 1967. Through the authentic representation of the mines, with tunnels, pits, a slide and a drilling-machine visitors get a real feel of how it would be to be working underground. Cars can park in the multi-storey carpark at Oberer Stadtplatz.

Die Stadt

The cultural city, situated approx. 10 km in the east of Innsbruck, is one of the best kept historic old-cities of Austria. With its medieval,carefully restaurated facades of the bourgeois-houses, crooked alleys of the good kept old-city, Hall almost today gives pictures of its remarkable past. As lasting appreciation the city has been awarded the Austrian State-Award of Preservation of Monuments