Republic of Austria
Europa Central
Alpine · Musical · Elegant
Vienna's coffee-house culture is listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Graz, Linz, Salzburg — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Vienna accumulated eight centuries of Habsburg imperial ambition into a compact city centre where the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Opera, and the Spanish Riding School occupy buildings that would be national monuments in most countries — a density of world-class cultural infrastructure unmatched anywhere in Europe.
El idioma oficial es alemán, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Austria se contacta mediante el código +43. Austrians have developed a talent for the Schmäh — a particular brand of dark, self-deprecating Viennese humour that serves as social lubricant and psychological defence against the melancholy that seems to come with inhabiting a former imperial capital reduced to a mid-sized republic.
Austria comparte sus fronteras con Eslovenia, República Checa, Eslovaquia, Alemania, Liechtenstein, Suiza, Hungría, Italia. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+01:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Viennese cuisine fused Hungarian, Czech, and Italian influences into the Wiener Schnitzel, Sachertorte, and the coffee house tradition — where a Melange with a glass of water and a newspaper entitles a customer to sit undisturbed for hours in a institution the UNESCO added to the world's intangible cultural heritage.
Skiing is Austria's secular religion, with the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel considered the most dangerous downhill on the World Cup circuit — a course where racers exceed 140 km/h on a gradient so steep that finishing the run without falling is an achievement worth celebrating.
The Grossglockner at 3,798 metres is Austria's highest peak, accessible by a dramatic mountain road that winds through a landscape where glaciers have retreated significantly since the early 20th century — a visible record of climate change written in ice and exposed rock above the treeline.