2. Melk AbbeyMelk Melk Abbey is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley. The abbey contains the tomb of Saint Coloman of Stockerau and the remains of several members of the House of Babenberg, Austria's first ruling dynasty. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
3. Old TownHallstatt Albanian is a language of the Indo-European family, in which it occupies an independent branch. It is an official language in Albania and Kosovo and has official minority status in Italy, Romania, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and others. The language has an official status in Ulcinj, southern Montenegro. Albanian is also spoken by large Albanian communities elsewhere in Europe, the Americas and Australia. The two main dialects of Albanian are Gheg and Tosk. Gheg is primarily spoken in the north, while Tosk is spoken in the south. Standard Albanian is based on the Tosk dialect. The number of Albanian speakers in the Balkans is estimated to be approximately 5 million.Centuries-old communities speaking Albanian dialects can be found scattered in Croatia , Greece , Italy as well as in Romania... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
4. Mauthausen MemorialMauthausen The Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camp complex consisted of the Mauthausen concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen plus a group of nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St Georgen/Gusen, just a few kilometres from Mauthausen, held a significant proportion of prisoners within the camp complex, at times exceeding the number of prisoners at the Mauthausen main camp. The Mauthausen main camp operated from the time of the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich in 8 August 1938, to 5 May 1945, at the end of the Second World War. Starting with the camp at Mauthausen, the number of subcamps expanded over time and by the summer of 1940 Mauthaus... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
6. Hallstatter SeeHallstatt Hallstätter See or Lake Hallstatt is a lake in the Salzkammergut, Austria, located at 47°34′43″N 13°39′38″E. It is named after Hallstatt, a small market town in Austria, famous for its salt mining since prehistoric times and the starting point of the world's oldest and still working industrial pipeline – for brine to Bad Ischl and further to Ebensee. Since about 1970/1980 the only ship-mail-line of Austria crossed the lake from the railway on the east shore to the town in the west. In winters the road on the west shore tended to be blocked by high snow or the risk of avalanches. When the ice on the lake was thick enough, a sled pulled by men or horses, later a motorized track vehicle was used to transport mail and persons. Later a tunneled road was built through Hallstatt and ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Besides the city of Salzburg there is also the state or province of Salzburg, and to make things even more complicated there is also a region called Salzkammergut. In short, the area around Salzburg is no less impressive than the old city itself. The days of old can be admired in the Grossgmain museum; but the old customs and trades can still be seen in many other places.
As their names reveal, Salzburg and Salzkammergut have one important characteristic in common - salt. The salt and the accompanying trade left their mark on Salzburg turning it into what it is today: a city with style and a little world fame. There it is, crystal salt. It was the Celts who, in 500 B.C. started extracting salt in the neighbourhood of Salzburg and Dürnnberg. Using simple bronze and wooden tools, they extracted salt from the mountains and built the first mines and settlements. They would go 300 metres down to find their precious raw material. Salt was necessary to prepare and preserve food, but also for medical purposes. Health resorts along the Wolfgangsee still bear witness to this. Salt is no longer extracted here, but the tourist can still travel back through time and breathe the air and atmosphere of those ancient times. Der Mann im Salz. In 1573 mineworkers discovered the remains of a prehistoric forebear. And in his case the salt had done its preservation job well.