Hotel Fahrnberger has been operated by the same family for four generations and can look back on a 700-year history. Today the Fahrnberger, located in the middle of the scenic Mostviertel Alps, presents itself as a thoroughly modern, up-to-date hotel.
MoreIt’s like residing in an architecture museum. However the Looshaus, located just outside Vienna, enthrals not only design fans: it is also a favorite with tranquillity-seeking nature lovers as well as gourmets.
Learn more about the Looshaus in PayerbachThe largest open-air museum in Lower Austria is an entire village, where 80 historical buildings were disassembled from all over the Weinviertl and rebuilt again true to their original construction at Niedersulz.
More information on the Open Air Museum NiedersulzPrince Eugene’s summer palace Schloss Hof, one of the most beautiful baroque buildings in the world, has been brought back to life thanks to a renovation project that began in 2002 and cost more than 30 million Euro.
Visit Schloss HofLower Austria’s architectural highlights are not limited to a few areas; they are to be found everywhere, from the Wachau Valley and the city of Krems to the provincial capital of St. Pölten and the Kamp Valley.
Architectural Highlights in Lower Austria...A crazy village and a museum for inventions that nobody needs..... quirky rather than certifiable. The museum exhibits 'inventions that make everyday life.'
More on the NonseumLuxurious apartments, typical wine-tavern cuisine elevated to gourmet levels, and world-class wines from the region: the Zuschmann-Schöffmann Winery presents Lower Austria’s Weinviertel region from its most elegant side.
Learn more about the Weinlodge in MartinsdorfPrize-winning wines, homemade schnaps brandies, a small but exquisite restaurant, and a smattering of guest rooms to overnight in - plus desserts flowing from the local variety of apricot known as marille. The Prandtauerhof in Joching on the Danube is more than 700 years old. The Holzapfel family radiates Wachau hospitality and serves the best this exceptional region can come up with, both from cellar and kitchen.
Learn more about Wine Estate Holzapfel in JochingThe chef earned his spurs and his fame as legendary chef at Hotel Intercontinental in Vienna. Manfred Buchinger resaddled to establish a splendid Weinviertel country inn known instructively as “the old school”.
Learn more about Buchinger’s Inn “Zur Alten Schule” in Riedenthal ob Wolkersdorf01.07.2013 - 06.08.2013 - Reichenau
A top-ranking theatre festival among the Austrian summer cultural events. Only 70 miles south of Vienna, situated in a scenic mountainous setting, Reichenau has been a traditional summer resort for the Viennese high society since the late 19th century.
More about the Reichenau FestivalHeinz Hanner is doubtless the most avant-guard top Austrian chef there is. And one thing is also certain: nothing here can ever get boring.
Learn more about Hanner restaurant inThe former monastery has been secularised for a long time. Today it is a different kind of temple: of enjoyments at the highest imaginable level.
Learn more about Kloster Und in KremsThe Loibnerhof is the longstanding classic pillar of restaurants in the Wachau. For decades, it has enjoyed cult status for its outstanding regional cuisine.
Learn more about Loibnerhof in DürnsteinIn the epicentre of the vineyards, this cluster of winemaking facilities, hotel and restaurant emanates the aura of a fairy tale. And this is not, we emphasize, simply a matter of history.
wine House & Restaurant Nigl in SenftenbergLandhaus Bacher has been one of the first culinary addresses in the Wachau for many years. It is one of Austria’s very best restaurants.
Gourmet-restaurant Landhaus Bacher in the WachauA Festival of Flights of Fancy: the donaufestival Krems, held each April, is regarded as t h e festival for current artistic positions at the interface of performance and acoustic art, experimentation, pop, and subculture.
donaufestival in KremsAt two very different venues – the nearly 900-year-old Klosterneuburg Monastery and the contemporary Kunstmuseum Essl – visitors can join the monthly Art Breakfast.
The Art Breakfast at KlosterneuburgFrom the middle of the vineyards rises the aluminium-clad cube of the Visitors’ Centre Loisium, a symbol of how adept the winegrowing town of Langenlois is at linking the modern and the traditional. This theme is also taken up each year in March by the Loisiarte music and literature festival.
Loisiarte Festival for Music & LiteratureArnulf Rainer’s hometown of Baden pays tribute to this versatile and busy painter with a museum devoted to his work – and housed in a former bath that is a gem of 19th-century architecture.
Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden bei WienWorld Music from the Waldviertel: Litschau, Austria’s northernmost city, is the birthplace of the traditional “Schrammel” music. In July, the area surrounding the Herrensee and the Herrensee theatre serves as the location for three days of Austrian folk music, sometimes conventional and occasionally eccentric.
Schrammel.Klang.Festvial in the WaldviertelThe crystal-clear waters of Lake Lunz and the forests and mountains of Lower Austria’s Voralpen region provide the backdrop for a July festival that devotes itself to transcending all borders between styles and genres.
wellenklänge in Lunz am SeeThe cultural centre at the former psychiatric hospital in Gugging offers an impressive and unconventional introduction to “Art Brut”. And part of the Gugging experience is sometimes encountering the very artists who created these works.
The Art Brut Center in GuggingThe combination of culinary pleasures, the historic castle and landscape gardens, the modern architecture, and a world-class concert programme makes the Grafenegg Music Festival a delight for all the senses.
Music-Festival in GrafeneggThe name says it all. The “Art Mile of Krems” extends from the historic town centre to the medieval village centre of Stein, and from museums and concert venues to gourmet restaurants, ensuring an abundance of stimulating cultural experiences.
Kunstmeile KremsJamek has been an institution in the Wachau for decades now. Both for the lusciously comfortable atmosphere and the quality of everything promised...and delivered.
Jamek - Country inn and wine estate in the Wachau valleyThe Austrian daily “Kurier” called it “Austria’s most beautiful regional wine shop”. The brainchild of local authorities and some forty top winemakers from Wagram, planned by the Viennese architectural team of “gerner°gerner plus”, and opened in September 2009, Weritas Wagram is a centre for the entire region.
Wine Shop Wagram WeritasUltra-modern architecture and exceptional wellness offers in one of Austria’s oldest wine regions: this is a winning concept, as the 4-star Superior Hotel Loisium in Langenlois demonstrates.
Wine Hotel Loisium in LangenloisThe Heurigenhof Bründlmayer is no ordinary heuriger buffet. In this preciously beautiful ensemble of historic buildings, you enjoy superb cuisine and the preeminent stars of the Austrian wine scene, courtesy of Bründlmayer.
Wine tavern-restaurant Heurigenhof Bründlmayer in LangenloisDaniel Spoerri, artist of “nouveau realisme” stemming from Rumania, made an impact with Eat-Art Events and Object Art Works.
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