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Like most European countries, Austria looks back on a very eventful history. Yet there are some elements of the Austrian character that haven’t changed much over the centuries: the partiality for indulgence, beauty, and cultivation has always been a driving force in the country’s past and present.

• Public holidays

  • 01st January: New Year
  • 06th January: Epiphany
  • March / April: Easter Sunday
  • March / April: Easter Monday
  • 01st May: Labour Day
  • second Sunday in May: Mother´s Day
  • Easter Sunday + 39 days: Ascension Day
  • Easter Sunday + 49 days: Pentecost
  • Easter Sunday + 50 days: Pentecost Monday
  • Easter Sunday + 60 days: Corpus Christi
  • June: Father´s Day
  • 15th August: Assumption of Mary
  • 26th October: National Holiday Austria
  • 01st November: All Saints
  • 08th December: Immaculate Conception
  • 25th December: Christmas
  • 26th December: St. Stephen´s Day

• Top things to do

  • Vienna – Schönbrunn Palace
  • Vienna – Imperial Palace
  • Vienna- giant wheel
  • Salzburg – Mozarts birthhouse
  • Salzburg – grand festival buildings
  • Salzburg – The Sound of Music
  • Innsbruck – The Golden Roof
  • The Alps – Grossglockner highway
  • The lakes in upper austria and Salzburg area
  • The ski regions with its glaciers

• Getting there

  Austria is a federal republic state with a parliamentary democracy. Austria is located in a temperate climatic zone with a Central European climate influenced by the Atlantic climate. The four seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) each have typical temperature and climatic characters. With an area of 83.858 sq km Austria consists of 9 independent federal states (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Vienna) with their own provincial governments. The federal legislation is exercised by the national council (Nationalrat) together with the Upper House of Parliament (Bundesrat) – the two chambers of Parliament.

  Austria is a member of the European Union, the United Nations as well as most UN organizations.

  Of the approximately 8 million inhabitants of Austria, 98% speak German. The six ethnic groups officially recognized in Austria (Burgenlandic Croatians, Roma, Slovaks, Slovenians, Czechs and Hungarians) are concentrated in the east and south of the country.
  Approximately 74 % of Austrians are Roman Catholic, 5 % are Protestant, the rest belongs to other faiths.

  The local currency is the €uro.

• Did you know...?

  • The Sound of Music has a show in Salzburg from May to October almost every day.
  • The Grossglockner is 3798 metres above sea level, the highest mountain in Austria.
  • Austria is bordered by 8 countries: the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
  • Austria has been the birthplace of many famous composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss, Sr. and Johann Strauss, Jr.
  • Famous Austrian actors are Christoph Waltz  (Inglourious Basterds) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (38^th govenor of California).
  • Other famous Austrians are the biologists Gregor Mendel and Konrad Lorenz  and Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis.
  • The famed Spanish Riding School of Vienna is located in Vienna.

• Trips, Tours & Activities

  • Austrian roundtrip available for groups and FIT
  • Weekend in Vienna
  • Weekend in Salzburg
  • Combination Prague-Vienna-Budapest for groups and FIT
  • Guaranteed departures
  • Concert tickets, state opera tickets
  • Transfers available in all categories
  • Local guide services in a lot of languages
  • Bus rentral
  • Incentives and meetings in whole Austria

• Accommodation

  Austria is offering a big portfolio of hotels, from 5 star de luxe to 3 star hotels; international hotel chains are available in Viennna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, Linz, Klagenfurt, Kitzbühel and Zell am See and several alpine regions.

• Transfers

  We offer the whole portfolio for FIT regular transfers up to limousine transfers for groups, buses from 8 – 54 pax.

• Meetings and events

  We are member at acb.at – the Austrian convention bureau.

• What we recommended

  • Deluxe restaurants Vienna: Steirereck, Palais Coburg, Fabios
  • Traditional restaurants : Plachutta, Augustinerkeller, Rathauskeller, Griechenbeisl
  • Touristical restaurants : Rosenberger – Kardos
  • Deluxe restaurants Salzburg : M32, Goldener Hirsch, Sacher
  • Traditional restaurants : St. Peter, K+K am Waagplatz
  • Touristical restaurants : STernbräu, STieglbräu
  • Concerts in Vienna: Mozart Orquestra, Vienna State Opera, muscials
  • Concerts in Salzburg: Festungskonzerte, Sound of Music show (with our without dinner) Mozart dinner show with dinner included
  • SHOPS nr 1 is Swarovski cristal – available in Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck
  • Red Bull shop in Salzburg
  • Traditional clothes “Loden” – available in several shops in whole Austria
  • Classical music shops available in all main cities

• Special events

  Cultural

  Whole year Vienna high class cultural events like Stateopera with Anna Netrebko in Salzburg music festival during Easter week, and summer festival from end of july to end of august every year.

  Sports

  Mainly in winter in ski areas.

  Religious

  Bauernherbst – special event in several villages in the region of Austria to celebrate the end of the summer.