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Vienna | Salzburg
| Graz | Innsbruck
| Linz | Bregenz | Klagenfurt
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Vienna's history goes way back to Roman
times. Like many cities throughout Europe, it is based on a
Roman military settlement called Vindobona.
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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
the Benedictine Monastery of St. Peters.
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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
open to the south.
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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
be found in Roman times.
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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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