Austria, modestly, provides the world’s best backdrops. As huge mountains, pretty lakes and deep alpine valleys, Austria is the seamless setting for your summer holiday. With a population of 8,504,850, the German name for Austria, Österreich, means ‘eastern realm’ or ‘eastern empire’ and with all of the things Austria has to offer, it is no wonder.
The cultural life of Austria is renowned. With the grandiose Vienna to the collection of undiscovered villages peppered around the wonderful landscape. A diversity fusing the everyday and the outstanding and the rural and the peculiar, and only found within the constraints of Austria. With culture derives food and wine. Taverns littering each village, offering wine, beer and traditional good food under the impressive picturesque scenes. Contrasting to Vienna where exciting new places are being developed to try a range of cuisine from around the world. Austria offers everything.
By summer, the snow melts and reveals vast networks of hiking or mountain-biking trails, and the perfect picnic spots open up in the lush mountain meadows in the warm weather. The beautiful Austrian lakes, where there are over a thousand of them, are also pleasant places in summer for swimming and relaxing. Find ones that suit your holiday as some are cold and glacial, with others as warm, splashy playgrounds. In Austria, the great outdoors is never far away.
