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A sleepy little town in Austria’s Vorarlberg region, most of the year Bregenz can be found peacefully dozing by Lake Constance, hugged tight by the Bregenzerwald Mountains of the eastern Alps. Until July and August swing around, that is, when culture kids flock there in their thousands to be a part of the buzzing cultural hub of the famed Bregenz Festival (Bregenzer Festspiele).
A vibrant menagerie of culture, art and music, the spellbinding highlight of the entire Bregenz Festival is without a doubt the open-air opera, seating 7,000 and drifting out on Bregenz’s Lake Constance.
A giant lily pad of culture – said to be the world’s biggest – this year’s soaring tones that will reach out over the waters are from Georges Bizet’s 19th century operatic masterpiece, Carmen.
No other performance could possibly electrify the Austrian night like an Andalusian love fest of unrequited love, uncontrollable passion and tragic destiny, we can see the waters ripple in anticipation already.
And with opera sets famed for their flair and extravagant design, this year’s floating opera is sure to wow, designed by set designer to the stars, Es Devlin.
Art features here too, where Bregenz’s modernist art gallery (Kunsthaus Bregenz) strikes the skyline with its strong geometric shapes, designed by famed Swiss architect, Peter Zumthor.
Mesmerhaus - a 15-minute skid down the mountain to the Bregenz Festival - is the perfect Austrian lair to base yourself for this humming-ly brilliant Bregenz Festival.
A lively kaleidoscope of creativity, culture, poetry and music, hugged tight by the Austrian Alps, the Bregenz Festival is simply a must-do on any culture kids calendar. Before heading straight to Bregenz shimmy into the cultural scene first by flying in to Zurich and staying at Signau House & Garden before then hopping in the car on to Bregenz, an hour and a half’s journey.
When dealing with one of the oldest buildings in Salzburg, it takes the architect’s clever manipulation of architecture and design to create an exciting, inspiring atmosphere that coverts the old and the new to extreme yet complimentary dimensions.
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Browse our unique Vienna Art Guide below for all there is to know about Austria’s art and culture capital. Once the epicentre of the longstanding Habsburg empire, Vienna is awash with galleries, artists, museums and odes to moments of age-defining culture, as well as a new generation of creatives call this city home, once again.
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A fabulous Winter Festival in Austria's snowy Salzburg - Salzburg Winter Festival December 2025 celebrates Contemporary Circus with acrobatics, juggling, music and Machine de Cirque - fun from France, Canada & Austria.
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Turrell’s latest skyspace is such an iteration, located in Lech, a little skiing town in the Arlberg mountains, Austria. At a height of almost 1800 meters above sea-level, The Skyspace-Lech, a lightroom inside a stone building at the end of a 15-metre tunnel, is set in alpine terrain, and is only accessible by foot or by skiing – so wear your walking shoes and your best raincoat.
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With more than 9000 artworks, Vienna's Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, MUMOK for short, sits au courant against the vast MuseumQuartier designed by Ortner&Ortner Architects.
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A cradle of the arts and style where twisted beams and heritage-thick walls flank a contemporary curatorial scene at this historic coaching inn and foodie haunt since 1350.
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Director of internationally acclaimed Vienna Design Week, Lilli Hollein had never yet turned her eye to interior design until Vienna's Hotel Altstadt came knocking.
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Austria's famed Lake District, Salzkammergut, lies just south of Salzburg, bursting with natural beauty and special 'points of happiness'.
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Bad Gastein is renowned as a centre for incredible Austrian skiing - as well as being a beautiful valley full of age-old healing springs - but did you know it also holds the biggest art festival in the Alps, too? From the January 31 to February 6, 2026, Bad Gastein’s famed ski areas and picturesque town centres will come alive to the sound of ice being expertly chiselled.
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Affectionately known as the Monte Carlo of the Alps and the playground of the royals and the Habsburgs, Austria's Bad Gastein is a Wunderkammer of faded Belle-Époque glamour and energetic creativity.
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Part of Austria’s Ski amadé, Mühlbach am Hochkönig blends altitude, architecture and adrenaline across 120 kilometres of sculpted snow, six peaks and the legendary Königstour – the Alps in pure motion.
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Located in the Hohe Tauern National Park in the heart of the Salzburgerland province, Bad Gastein’s ski playground is made up of 200km of groomed pistes scattered over four different mountains, part of the Ski Amadé area, with over 1,000 metres of altitude which offers superb long downhill runs.
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