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"iAustria" is your personal guide to extraordinary travel experiences in one of the worlds most exciting countries. Find one of a kind suggestions and ideas for discovery and exploration beyond the ordinary.

Your Austrian hosts

Mr and Mrs Austrian are beyond doubt epicureans. When their culinary rituals blend with the famous Austrian hospitality ("Gemütlichkeit") guests will experience a unique feast. Encounter Austrian cuisine not only at the dining table...

Festival for all Senses

Austria's diverse cultural offerings include over 200 festivals, stretching from world scale events to small regional gatherings. Many of them make use of Austria's beautiful surroundings and most of them offer an outstanding culinary menu to accompany the cultural experience.

Destination Austria Holiday Journal 2011

The new edition of the popular holiday journal is hot of the press! Place your order today and your personal copy will automatically be sent to you!

Destination Austria Holiday Journal 2011/2012

Ski helmet obligatory in Austria

Museums in Austria – a world of astonishments

Austria today offers some of the world's most important and stunning collections of modern and contemporary art.

Strauss, Johann - Father (1804 - 1849)

Bruckner, Anton (1824 - 1896)

Handke, Peter (born 1942)

Freud, Sigmund (1856 - 1939)

Suppé, Franz von (1819 - 1895)

Schwarzenegger, Arnold (born 1947)

Strauss, Johann (1825 - 1899)

Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911)

Klimt, Gustav (1862 - 1918)

Kolig, Anton (1886 - 1950)

Kokoschka, Oskar (1886 - 1980)

Berg, Werner (1904 - 1981)

Lauda, Niki (born 1949)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791)

Lavant, Christine (1915-1973)

Haydn, Joseph (1732 - 1809)

Wolf, Hugo (1860 - 1903)

Kogelnik, Kiki (1935 - 1997)

Turrini, Peter (born 1944)

Kauffmann, Angelika (1741 - 1807)

Kálmán, Emmerich (1882 - 1953)

Hundertwasser, Friedensreich (1928 - 2000)

Webern, Anton von (1883 - 1945)

Famous Austrians

Austria's 'great' sons and daughters have left their mark all across the centuries in politics, art, science and sport: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Mahler, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christoph Waltz to name just a few...

Linz Card 2012

Schönberg, Arnold (1874 - 1951)

Craving Austria?

We have compiled our favorite dishes to make sure you can create your Austrian vacation memories at home.

Plan your trip to the Austrian Wine Country

Austria’s wine regions are both beautiful and easy to visit. In fact, once you step off the plane in Vienna, you have already arrived in one of the world’s most unique wine region. Vienna. Then about one hour south east of Vienna lies the Burgenland, and one hour west of Vienna is the region of Lower Austria with many beautiful valleys. Many of them along the Danube.

Bachmann, Ingeborg (1926 - 1973)

Route Planner

Traveling throughout Austria by car? This route planner helps you find the shortest way to your travel destination and calculate the travel distance.

Essential listing on music, art and cultural tours

Experience the magical atmosphere of Austria's culture and music performances and download a listing on classical music and cultural tours offered by Australian and New Zealand tour operators.

Vienna - for gay travellers

You know Vienna for it's music and culture, for the coffee houses (yes, we did have coffee houses 300 years before Starbucks, or at least that’s what tradition tells us), for the Opera and for the Imperial history that the city still showcases everywhere.

Austria's Eastern Edge

Burgenland is unlike anywhere else in Austria. Whereas Austria is known for rugged Alps, pirouette-inducing meadows or the excitement of Vienna, Burgenland sits on the edge of Central Europe’s vast Pannonian plain.

The easiest way to get tickets

A trip to Austria would not be the same without a visit to the opera or a concert. Get tickets ahead of time to ensure entry to the concert or festival of your dreams

Government & People

Austria is a federal republic state with a parliamentary democracy, consisting of 9 independent federal regions.

Vienna

Did you know, that to this day Vienna is the only world capital with a significant wine production within it's city limits? Respected vintners are bringing their visions to the exploding culinary and cultural renaissance happening in Vienna.