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01.09.2012
1st Salzburg Festival Ball 2012
Every year on the last Saturday of the season the motto is “Everybody Dance!” The opening ceremony, the festive concert with great stars and also the unique setting of the Baroque arcades hewn into the rock of the Mönchsberg create an atmosphere for an unforgettable ball.
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10.10.2012 - 14.10.2012
Jazz & The City
Salzburg will be transformed into a muscial Mecca for six days during this festival. On the program are one hundred concerts - ranging from world music to jazz to electronic music – at fifty different venues in the historic city centre. Free admission for everyone!
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22.11.2012 - 24.12.2012
Christmas Markets in Salzburg
The pealing of countless church bells reminds us that Christmas is near, and the Salzburg Christmas markets will fill you with warmth as you look out to the city's snow-covered roofs, domes and towers.
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20.07.2012 - 02.09.2012
Salzburg Festival
First held in 1920, the Salzburg Festival is one of the cultural highlights of the year. Alongside the regular residency of the Vienna Philharmonic, musicians and ensembles of the highest caliber fill the beautiful Alpine city with music and drama.
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05.07.2012 - 22.07.2012
Summer Scene
Summer scene is an international avant-garde theatre and dance festival. This summer, productions of a young international elite music program of contemporary performing arts as well as installations and a fantastic music program can be enjoyed free of charge!
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23.10.2012 - 04.11.2012
Salzburg Jazz-Herbst
This is the 17th edition of this musical delight that brings international and Austrian jazz stars to the Salzburg stages.
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21.10.2011 - 30.06.2012
The Sound of Music - A musical comes home
After thousands of performances on Broadway in New York, in London and German-speaking countries, the musical finally "came home" to Salzburg on 23 October 2011!
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25.05.2012 - 28.05.2012
Salzburg Whitsun Festival
Prefacing Salzburg's main summer festival, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival concentrates on baroque music.
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Restaurant Blaue Gans in Salzburg
At the “Blue Goose”, perched atop Salzburg’s city mountain, the Mönchsberg, they pursue an overall philosophy: eat, drink, feel good, stay awhile...
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Gourmet & Inn Döllerer's Genusswelten
This golden star shines brilliantly. It comprises a gourmet restaurant, an inn (“Bürgerstube”), a fantastic vinotheque and a butchery with its own delicatessen.
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Art Hotel Blaue Gans
“Indulge the urbane life of Mozart’s city”, is the motto of the art hotel in the middle of Salzburg’s historic downtown. And this attitude has earned the Art Hotel Blaue Gans the appreciation and affection of artists and guests alike.
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Hotel Auersperg in Salzburg
Refreshing energy, perfect service and contemporary elegance in an old Salzburg villa: the Auersperg is the ideal hideaway for a wonderful weekend in the city of Mozart.
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International Stage Art Festival SommerSzene Salzburg
The SommerSzene Salzburg aims at moving people and opening up fields of the future by presenting the most important trends in international stage art every year in July.
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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.
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The Salzburg Festival
Salzburg lies in the heart of Europe. But for six weeks a year Salzburg is the centre of the world, when the most prestigious music festival on earth opens with a huge celebration on the city’s squares and streets.
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experience - Destination Austria Holiday Journal 2012 - out now!
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!
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Essential listing on Austrian and European tours including Austria
Tour throughout Austria and download a listing on Austrian and European packages offered by Australian and New Zealand tour operators.
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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.
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Staud's in Vienna
To combine fine pickled vegetables with the thought of emergency rations would prove the delicious variety of Staud’s products completely wrong. Non-believers will be convinced by visiting the Staud’s Pavillion at the Yppenplatz in Vienna.
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Anna Aichinger
The emerging designer prefers to read the political magazine “Spiegel” over the fashion magazine “Vogue” and gets inspired for her new fashion collection by political themes. Therefore her creations have a reputation in Paris, London and Hongkong.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Government & People
Austria is a federal republic state with a parliamentary democracy, consisting of 9 independent federal regions.
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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.
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Passport & Visa Regulations
Holders of an Australian or New Zealand passport do not need a visa if their stay in Austria does not exceed three months.
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