The waltz and the coffee house, Mozart's town and the lake that the Sound of Music sang, and a storybook alpine capital ringed by peaks, Austria, all grandeur and gemutlichkeit.
Into Vienna, capital of an empire for six centuries and the most graceful city in Europe. After the flight we keep it easy, a first Wiener schnitzel, a slice of Sachertorte in a marble coffee house, an early night.
The Hofburg palace, the grand Ringstrasse, and Klimt's golden Kiss at the Belvedere; the soaring St Stephen's Cathedral. In the evening, a concert of Mozart and Strauss in a gilded hall, the city's heartbeat.
Schonbrunn Palace and its formal gardens, the white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School, the MuseumsQuartier; and as evening falls, a heuriger wine tavern in the city's own hillside vineyards, new wine and old songs.
West through the Salzkammergut lake district, pausing at the impossibly pretty lakeside village of Hallstatt, to Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace. The baroque old town, the fortress on its rock, and the gardens where the Sound of Music danced.
The Mirabell Gardens and the Hohensalzburg fortress, the Mozart houses and the cathedral, a Sound of Music tour or a day to the Konigssee just over the German border. An evening of Salzburg marionettes or Mozart by candlelight.
Into the Alps to Innsbruck, the storybook alpine capital framed on every side by peaks. The Golden Roof and the old town, the Nordkette cable car that climbs straight from the city centre into the high mountains, the glittering Swarovski Crystal Worlds.
Deeper into the Stubai or Zillertal valley, a cable car to a glacier and the high summer snow, an alpine hut lunch of kasspatzln, a chocolate box mountain village. The Tyrol of green meadows, cowbells and big white peaks.
A gentle mountain walk or a turquoise alpine lake, a spa afternoon, the Swarovski Worlds, a last dinner of schnitzel, knodel and apple strudel under a painted ceiling. The Alps doing their quiet, perfect best.
A last mountain breakfast before the transfer to Innsbruck or Munich for your flight. Austria gives you the height of European elegance and the heart of the Alps in a single, beautifully run week.
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