Information - Austria
Austria has an area of 32,376 squaremiles, in the center of Europe. The country covers a part of the eastern Alps and the Danube Region and has a wide variety of landscape, vegetation and climate.
There is spectacular scenery around every corner: vineyards, ancient castles and venerable abbeys overlooking the Danube, wooded hills rising up from lush farmland, lakes dotted with sailboats and ringed by soaring mountains, Alpine peaks and their icy world of glaciers reaching for the sky.
The cities are as varied as the countryside around them; historic cities where architectural masterpieces ever four hundred years old face each other across narrow lanes or wide squares, market towns that have barely changed since the Middle Ages, mountain villages with neat little houses and flowers overflowing from wooden balconies.