Best Austrian Vienna Schönbrunn, Salzburg Mozart, Hallstatt Lakeside, Tyrol Alps, Wachau Valley Melk Abbey, and Austria Deep Imperial Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Austria travel | Europe destinations Best Austrian Vienna Schönbrunn (UNESCO 1996) and Vienna Historic Centre (UNESCO 2001), Salzburg Mozart (UNESCO 1996), Hallstatt-Dachstein Lakeside (UNESCO 1997), Tyrol Alps, Wachau Valley Melk Abbey (UNESCO 2000), and Austria Deep Imperial Heritage Tour Destinations I have walked the marble corridors of Schönbrunn at 8:15 in the morning when the parquet still echoes only your own footsteps, eaten a Sachertorte sliced at table inside Café Sacher's red-velvet salon, and ridden the salt-mine wooden slide 64 metres down inside the Dachstein massif. Austria is a country of nine federal states, 83,879 square kilometres, and roughly 9.1 million people, and yet the heritage stacked into those borders is staggering: 12 UNESCO World Heritage inscriptions, the seat of the 645-year Habsburg dynasty between 1273 and 1918, the birthplace of Mozart in 1756, and the literal soundtrack of The Sound of Music filmed across Salzburg in 196...