Austria: a trip to a fairy tale

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Austria -

Alpine country in the heart of Europe. Here you will see diverse landscapes and amazing nature, and rich in history Austrian cities, vibrant cultural life and traditional Austrian hospitality will win your heart.
It is best to fly to Austria with Austrian airlines. Convenient connections, a professional friendly crew and 1st place in punctuality make flying with Austrian Airlines an exquisite pleasure. On board the plane of this most generous and attentive airline, you can order food from the famous catering company Do & Co, which owns the eponymous restaurant in the center of Vienna. Meals that can be booked when buying a ticket, or 36 hours before departure, will cost only 15 euros. But you will be offered a choice of several hot and cold dishes from a truly diverse menu. At Vienna and Moscow airports Austrian Airlines offer to use a business lounge for business class passengers. The same lounge leads to boarding the plane. Have a nice trip with Austrian Airlines!

First to the capital - to Vienna!

Vienna is a designer city and a seething cauldron of creativity. The magnificent facades of Vienna, the touching beauty of the streets, bold architectural projects - all this causes admiring sighs and just forces you to grab onto the camera!
The imperial past of the capital in all its glory appears in the palaces of Hofburg and Schönbrunn. Hundertwasser’s bizarre home is already Art Nouveau, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser himself is as iconic as Gaudi for Barcelona, ​​Eiffel for Paris and Quarenghi for St. Petersburg. The original entrances to the central metro stations also refer to modernism, and to get involved in modern art, you should go to the Museum Quarter, where several museums are located at once. The world-famous Mumok Museum owns the largest collection of contemporary art in Central Europe. By the way, in fine weather you can bask in the sun, crouching on one of the original bench chairs.
Schleifmühlgasse is the street where the main galleries of Vienna are concentrated, and the largest exhibition space of the Austrian capital. Nearby is a bar where they drink champagne and eat oysters - a traditional meeting place for artistic bohemians.
Vienna is the cradle of cathedrals. Each of them has several organs, and evening concerts of organ music are constantly held everywhere. It is worth stopping by, for example, in Peterskirche, where students of the Vienna Conservatory regularly try their hand.
Take a look at the Vienna market Vorgartenmarkt - it occupies a fairly vast territory in the very center of the city. The market has been recently restored, and since then, besides trade, many interesting events have been held here. For example, every second week a tasting of the “Austrian Culinary Heritage” is arranged, where they offer to try national dishes, lovingly prepared from locally produced organic products.

Contacts:

Tour operator Melour Destination Management -exclusive DMC company TEZ Tour

Where to live?

The chic Sans Souci Wien is located directly opposite the Museum Quarter, a 5-minute walk from the Ringstraße Boulevard in the center of Vienna. This area is an excellent choice if you are interested in shopping, museums and art. Beautiful rooms decorated with works by renowned artists and a relaxing spa with swimming pool crown the unforgettable experience of Vienna.
The famous Park Hyatt Wien hotel, located in the former bank building, has retained some of its attributes, such as, for example, gold bars that lay the pool floor, or with huge locks, the door to the former cash vault, which now houses the spa.

Did you like it in Vienna? You will love the second pearl of Austria - Salzburg!

It is impossible not to fall in love with the narrow streets of Salzburg. The baroque city in a small space embodies the harmonious combination of landscape and architecture, art and culture, tradition and modernity. Charmingly small, aesthetically pleasing and yet extravagant. The old part of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
High above the city, on Mount Festungsberg, Hohensalzburg Fortress rises - it is one of the largest serf complexes in Europe of the 11th century. The medieval fortress offers a wonderful panorama overlooking the rooftops of Mozart, and the house in which the most popular composer in the world was born and composed over 350 of his most beautiful works is located under the Mönchsberg mountain, in medieval Salzburg with its bourgeois houses and narrow streets.
In Salzburg there are many gastronomic establishments for every taste: from a bar high above the roofs of Salzburg, a romantic street cafe or a fashionable baseball to a gourmet restaurant. Salzburg is also considered the Austrian capital of beer: ten breweries, among them Austria's largest private brewery. And on the Mönchsberg mountain for gourmets, the wonderful restaurant M32 opened its doors.

Contacts:

Salzburg Tourism Board
Auerspergstraße 6, A-5020 Salzburg, Tel .: +43/662/889 87 - 0, Fax: +43/662/889 87 - 32
Email: [email protected]
Hotel Goldener Hirsch is located in an old 15th-century building for those who love classics and antiquities. Great location in the city center.

Relax in Gastein, Austria's healing treasury

Bad Gastein is located in the middle of the Hohe Tauern National Park in the Salzburg Region, at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level, where fog does not form. Guaranteed snow and ski slopes of all difficulty levels make this area extremely attractive in winter. But in the summer in Gasteinertal you can relax and unwind in the world-famous Gastein healing adits, surrounded by beautiful nature and clean mountain air.
The famous Gastaynsky caves (adits) were initially cut by gold prospectors. However, instead of gold, they found the most effective natural remedy for the treatment of chronic diseases! The effectiveness of treatment here reaches 90 percent. The perfect combination of radon, heat and humidity creates a unique climate inside the Gastein adits - it activates the regenerative work of cells, releases anti-inflammatory mediating substances that contribute to recovery.
Gastein thermal water is also a treasure. Studies have shown that rainwater from a height of 1,800 meters above sea level seeps to a depth of 2,000 meters, warms there and then re-emerges at an altitude of about 1,000 meters above sea level - from 16 different sources in the amount of five million liters per day . Water has a weak mineralization and is enriched with natural radon, which has a positive healing effect on the body. The noble gas radon is released from thermal water and enters the body through the respiratory tract and skin. There it exerts its therapeutic effect and after about 3 hours it is completely excreted from the body. The protective functions of the body are strengthened, and natural heat improves blood circulation. The therapeutic effect is enhanced by the high-altitude location of the Gastein resort region. Our body responds to altitude and produces more blood cells, which increases the supply of oxygen to our body tissues.
Contacts: Gastein Tourismus
www.gastein.com
Gasteiner heilstollen
www.gasteiner-heilstollen.com
Author: Polina Novikova
Photo: PR