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Austria flaunts its heritage in exuberant fashion. Vienna's bombastic Habsburg palaces and Salzburg's baroque splendour are great, but dig deeper and you'll unearth Stone Age settlements, Roman ruins and vibrant medieval festivals. You barely need to look for culture here - it waltzes right up to you.

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› Bad Gastein

› Braunau Am Inn

› Bregenzerwald

› Bruck An Der Mur

› Bundesgestüt Piber

› Burg Forchtenstein

› Burg Hochosterwitz

› Dornbirn and Around

› Graz

› Grossglockner Road

› Gurk

› Güssing and Around

› Hall In Tirol

› Heiligenblut

› Hüttenberg

› Imst

› Klosterneuburg

› Kremsmünster

› Linz

› Lockenhaus and Around

› Mauterndorf

› Millstätter See

› Mostviertel

› Neusiedler See

› Podersdorf Am See

› Rust

› Schneeberg, RaxAlpe and Höllental

› Southern Styria

› Spittal An Der Drau

› St Veit An Der Glan

› St Wolfgang

› The Danube Valley

› The Ötztal

› The Paznauntal

› The Zillertal

› Waldviertel and Weinviertel

› Wels

› Western Arlberg

› Wiener Neustadt

› Wörthersee

› Zell am See

› Zell Am Ziller

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Austria lies within the Central European climatic zone, though the eastern part of the country has a .. more

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