For a small country Austria holds immense geographic and cultural appeal. Dramatic peaks, broad valleys, rolling Alpine pastures, stunning mountain views.

Glorious Alpine scenery, monumental Habsburg architecture, and the world’s favourite musical.

Long the powerhouse of the Habsburg Empire Austria shorn of her empire and racked by economic difficulties, the state fell prey to the promises of Germany. With the end of the Cold War Austria returned to the heart of Europe, joining the EU in 1995.

Austria is known for the imperial glories of the capital and the stunning beauty of its Alpine hinterland. Vienna is the place to soak up the culture of Middle Europe and Salzburg represents urban Austria at its most picturesque, an Baroque city within mountains and lakes, while the most dramatic of Austria’s Alpine scenery is west of here, in and around Tyrol whose capital is Insbruck.

Tirol is awash in natural beauty, and nowhere more than in the towns of St. Anton am Arlberg, Sölden and the Ötztal Valley, Innsbruck, Kufstein and Kitzbühel.