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Vienna's history goes way back to Roman
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The birth of the town Salzburg can be set
in the year 696 when the missionary St. Rubert arrived and founded
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Graz is the capital of Styria, a
county in the southeast corner of Austria. The city is located
in between rolling hills, to the north, east and west, only
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The Inn valley has always been very
important for its geographical and trafficable favourable position.
First settlements date back to the Bronze Age. |
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Like most cities of Austria, the city of Linz is based on the Roman expansion to the North. The bending of the River Danube made this territory a strategic point and a small castle fortified it. | ||
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The city of Bregenz is located at the Bodensee
close to the four-border corner of Germany, Switzerland
and Liechtenstein. The roots of this capital of Vorarlberg can
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According to legend, the area was haunted by a special kind of dragon, a 'lindwurm'. Brave man killed it - and Klagenfurt was founded. | ||
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