Austria, along with neighboring Switzerland, is the winter sports center of Europe. However, it is just as popular for summer tourists who visit its historic cities and villages and hike in the magnificent scenery of the Alps. Austria has a big number of lakes. Normally they are very clean, so you can swim in them; they provide camping places nearby. In winter you can use them for ice skating. In some places, you will have to pay to get on the lakeside. Beside all that rustic, tranquil nature and countryside, Austria has a whole other side too. As one of Europe's former great powers, Austria boasts a wealth of majestic architecture and historic structures. As it was long a centre of power in the Holy Roman Empire, you'll find not only palaces and magnificent city architecture but also grand cathedrals, monasteries and churches.

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Linz is the third largest city in Austria, on the Danube river, and the capital of the federal province of Upper Austria. Linz is primarily known as a major industrial centre but also has a very picturesque historical old town including. When you are around the region check also the nature around. The Lake Wolfgang  is considered to be the most scenic lake in the Salzkammergut, framed by true mountain personalities. Together with the Mondsee lake, it is the warmest bathing lake in the Salzkammergut and freezes shut in front of St. Wolfgang during the cold winter. It is really an experience to glide over the wide ice surface of the lake on skates. And also the Mühlviertel north of the river Danube. It is a very hilly area and is well known for agriculture, it is very rural and there is no industry.

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Vorchdorf

Obertraun

Ternberg

Spital am Pyhrn

Thalheim bei Wels

Sankt Lorenz

Taufkirchen an der Pram

Bad Ischl

Linz

Tollet

Aschach an der Donau

Kremsmünster

Pregarten

Steyr

Scharnstein

Braunau am Inn

Ebensee am Traunsee

Gmunden

Lambach

Seewalchen am Attersee

Ottensheim

Dietach

Kirchdorf an der Krems

Großraming

Wels

Enns

Schönau im Mühlkreis

Steyregg

Vorderstoder

Weißenkirchen im Attergau

Sankt Johann am Walde

Attersee am Attersee

Regau

Ulrichsberg

Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis

Oberneukirchen

Feldkirchen an der Donau

Edlbach

Sankt Oswald bei Freistadt

Sankt Pantaleon

Sankt Georgen im Attergau

Gosau

Saint Wolfgang im Salzkammergut

Vorderweißenbach

Bad Leonfelden

Hallstatt

Haibach ob der Donau

Ansfelden

Bad Schallerbach

Traunkirchen

Grünau im Almtal

Mondsee

Sankt Johann am Wimberg

Ort im Innkreis

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