Austria 2006: Wachau - Scenic Romantic View...

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(Scenic view from the cruise boat)

Today we took a full-day excursion to Wachau, Northwest of Vienna. It boasts Austria's most dramatic wine landscape, stretching for about 20 miles between the towns of Melk and Krems and hugging the Danube River. The first part of the trip from Vienna was by bus and second part by boat. The journey drived through the beauty of Wachau scenery full of history and legends of the Danube.

(Absorbing the view from the Danube)

The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces in terms of architecture, monasteries, castles, ruins, towns and villages, and agricultural use for the cultivation of vines.

(On the cruise boat)

The romantic boat trip started from Spitz, winds its way past charming old villages and steep wineyards. The old castles, one of them the Durnstein is famous because here King Richard the Lion Heart was imprisoned, while waiting for his ransom to arrive from England.

(Visiting the Abbey)

The heart of the Wachau is the old wine-merchants’ town of Krems. The highlight of the visit is Melk, the magnificient Benedictine Abbey.

(The huge library)

👈 2006: Budapest, Hungary

2006: Vienna, Austria 👉