Austria - Lower Austria & Burgenland (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

Surrounding Vienna on all sides, Lower Austria is a cradle of Austrian civilisation and a region offering visitors one of the country’s most lively cultural landscapes. The Danube River cuts a picturesque valley, the Wachau, through the region’s northwest. A place of magnificent natural beauty: vineyards, castles, abbeys and medieval villages.

Austria - Lower Austria & Burgenland (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

wandering the cultural landscape of the Wachau in the Danube Valley

sipping wines in one of the pretty Heurigen (wine taverns) in towns like Rust

going baroque at Stift Melk, a magnificent monastery in Melk, on the banks of the Danube

Coverage includes: Lower Austria, The Danube Valley, Waldviertel & Weinviertel, St Pölten, Herzogenburg, Mostviertel, March-Donauland, Wienerwald, Süd-Alpin, Burgenland, Eisenstadt, Burg Forchtenstein, Neusiedler See and Middle & Southern Burgenland.