Austria Cultural Sites Travel Guide

If you are planning to travel to Austria, learn about some of the cultural highlights, including museums, and architecture,

Hi! I am Rebecca Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com. From the country that was a setting for the sound of music, we give you a list of cultural sites that you can't miss when traveling in Austria. The Museum Quarter is the seventh district of the City of the Vienna in Australia. It is the eighth largest cultural area in the world. The Museum Quarter contains Baroque building as well as modern architecture. The MQ is home to arrangement installations from large art museums like the Leopold Museums to contemporary exhibition spaces. The archaeological museum, Carnuntinum, lies in the present village, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. The most important excavations from the ancient city can be seen here. The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstrasse, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premium museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world. The Vienna Secession was part of the highly varied Secessionism movement that is now covered by the general term, Art Nouveau. Unlike other movements, there is no one style that unites the work of all artists who were part of the Vienna Secession. The Secession building could be considered the icon of the movement. Above its entrance was carved the phrase "to every age its art and to art its freedom". Saint Paul's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Sankt Paul in Lavanttal in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The abbey possesses one of the largest collections of art in Europe including graphics, coins, sacred art, and paintings as well as an extensive and important library of over a 180,000 books and manuscripts from between the fifth and the eighteenth centuries. Melk Abbey is an historic Austrian Benedictine abbey, and one of the world's most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river Danube in the federal state of Lower Austria, adjoining the Wachau Valley. It has the rare distinction of surviving as an active Benedictine monastery continuously since its foundation. Today's impressive Baroque Abbey was built between 1702 and 1736. Particularly noteworthy is the Abbey church with frescoes and the impressive library with countless medieval manuscripts. The Golden Roof is a landmark in Innsbruck, Austria built in 1500. It was decorated with 2657 fire-gilded copper tiles for Maximilian I, a holy Roman Emperor. The reliefs on the balcony show coats of arms, symbols and other figures in his life. The emperor and others used this balcony to watch events in the square below. Salzburg is most certainly a city of music. It was the home and birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the memorial to him at the Salzburg Mozart Square honors the city's most famous son.