Postcard from Austria.

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Postcard from Austria.

Waidhofen's Old City has many late medieval houses and public buildings enclosed within the old city walls. Several Gothic courtyards and arcades are still present, as are many renovated facades in the Biedermeier, Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque styles. It is a statutory city (Statutarstadt) in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. 

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Wachau Cultural Landscape,Austria. (12-9)

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Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape,Austria.

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Historic Centre of Vienna,Austria.

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City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg,Austria.

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Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape,Austria.

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Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg,Austria.

Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it was a city-state ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its Flamboyant Gothic art attracted many craftsmen and artists before the city became even better known through the work of the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the centre of Salzburg owes much of its Baroque appearance.                   Ref:784
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Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn,Austria.

From the 18th century to 1918, Schönbrunn was the residence of the Habsburg emperors. It was designed by the architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Nicolaus Pacassi and is full of outstanding examples of decorative art. Together with its gardens, the site of the world’s first zoo in 1752, it is a remarkable Baroque ensemble and a perfect example of Gesamtkunstwerk( work of art that makes use of all or many art forms)            Ref: 786
Thank you Christina for this wonderful card with beautiful stamps.Also you have helped me complete my Austria UNESCO site card collection.

The Semmering Railway,Austria

This railway line constructed between 1848 and 1854 over 41 km of high mountains, is one of the greatest feats of civil engineering during the pioneering phase of railway building. Set against a spectacular mountain landscape, the railway line remains in use today thanks to the quality of its tunnels, viaducts, and other works, and has led to the construction of many recreational buildings along its tracks.Thank you Christina,(Source -UNESCO)

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps, Austria.

The series of 111 out of the 937 known archaeological pile-dwelling sites in six countries around the Alpine and sub-alpine regions of Europe is composed of the remains of prehistoric settlements dating from 5,000 to 500 BC which are situated under water, on lake shores, along rivers or in wetlands. The exceptional conservation conditions for organic materials provided by the waterlogged sites, combined with extensive under-water archaeological investigations and research in many fields of natural science, such as archaeobotany and archaeozoology, over the past decades, has combined to present an outstanding detailed perception of the world of early agrarian societies in Europe. The precise information on their agriculture, animal husbandry, development of metallurgy, over a period of more than four millennia, coincides with one of the most important phases of recent human history: the dawn of modern societies.Thank you Christina for the nice card. (Source-UNESCO)