Schönbrunn
The Habsburgs' summer palace Schönbrunn,
in the outer suburbs of Vienna,
is without doubt the most ornate
of the country's imperial
palaces. Its grounds contain the
city's Tiergarten (zoo),
Palmenhaus - a glasshouse full
of tropical ferns - and
Schmetterlinghaus (butterfly
house).
Salzburg
At the heart of Salzburg's
Altstadt runs the pedestrianized
Getreidegasse, the city's
busiest thoroughfare, lined with
expensive boutiques and famed
for its wrought-iron shop signs.
Number nine is Mozart's
birthplace - the baby-sized
violin he used as a child is on
display, along with other
instruments of the time.
Österreichisches Galerie
The fine palaces of Vienna's
Belvedere are home to the Österreichisches
Galerie (MAK), which sweeps
through the nation's art history
- from Baroque pieces by
painters such as Rottmayr,
leader of the early
eighteenth-century Viennese
school, to an astounding
collection of works by Klimt,
Schiele and Kokoschka.
Vienna's Zentralfriedhof
Vienna's Zentralfriedhof was
opened in 1874 at the height of
Viennese funeral fetishism, when
having eine schöne Leich
(a beautiful corpse) was
something to aspire to, so it's
not surprising that it's one of
the biggest and most impressive
cemeteries in the world.
