The most beautiful cities in Austria

Welcome to one of Europe’s most beautiful countries. Austria’s landscapes, regions and townscapes provide almost the full range of European variety in the centre of the continent. Austria is often associated, rightly, with winter sports, but there is so much more on offer. Its alpine areas are rugged and picturesque, but that’s far from being the whole story.

Wiener Neustadt

The medieval city was on the front line of military threats in its early centuries and a fortress was built. The the emperor Maximilian I, who reconquered Wiener Neustadt from the Hungarians, was buried under the altar of the St Georgs-Kathedrale in the fortress, which later became a military academy.

Parts of the city walls remain, as does the restored medieval cathedral Dom Mariä Himmelfahrt.