AT · Curated travel guide
Wachau, Schönbrunn Palace, Grossglockner and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
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Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Austria and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Valley in Austria
A valley cut by the Danube in Austria, between the towns of Krems and Melk: one of Lower Austria's best-known tourist areas, and a draw for food and wine lovers for its fine wines.
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Palace in Vienna, Austria
The Habsburg rulers' chief summer home, in Hietzing, Vienna's 13th district. Its name goes back to an artesian well whose water the court drank.
Photo: Thomas Wolf , www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Highest mountain in Austria
Also called just Glockner, Austria's highest mountain, 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), and the highest peak of the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It belongs to the Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauern, on the Alpine divide, along the main crest of the Central Eastern Alps.
Photo: DennisPeeters, Public domain
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Historic building complex and art museum in Vienna, Austria
A complex of historic buildings and an art museum in Vienna: two Baroque palaces, the Lower and Upper Belvedere, with the Palace Stables, the Orangery and a formal Baroque garden.
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Church in Vienna, Austria
Vienna's Roman Catholic cathedral, mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna and seat of its archbishop, Josef Grünwidl.
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0
Municipality in Salzburg, Austria
An Austrian resort for taking the waters, picturesquely set high in a valley of the Hohe Tauern in the St. Johann im Pongau District, and known for the Gastein waterfall and its various grand hotels.
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0
Imperial palace in Vienna, Austria
Once the main imperial palace of Austria's Habsburg dynasty, in the centre of Vienna. Ottokar II of Bohemia built it in the 13th century, and it was enlarged several times after.
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Opera house in Vienna, Austria
Vienna's opera house and opera company. Its Renaissance Revival hall seats 1,709, and was the first big building put up on the Ring Road.
Photo: P e z i, CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Nazi concentration camp in Austria (1938–1945)
A Nazi concentration camp on a hill above Mauthausen, a market town in Upper Austria: the main camp of a network of almost 100 subcamps across Austria and southern Germany.
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Highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains (Eastern Alps)
Germany's highest mountain, 2,962 m (9,718 ft) above sea level, and the top of the Wetterstein Mountains. It stands south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, with the Austria–Germany border running across its western summit.
Photo: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Formally the Republic of Austria, a landlocked Central European country in the Eastern Alps: a federation of nine states, of which Vienna, the capital, is the most populous, as a city and as a state. It has eight neighbours: Switzerland and Liechtenstein on the west, Germany and the Czech Republic along the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, and Slovenia and Italy on the south.
Officially The Republic of Austria. Known locally as Österreich.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Wachau, Schönbrunn Palace, Grossglockner and Belvedere, Vienna and others. Wachau is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Austria that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Wachau. That is not the full count for Austria, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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