Austrian culture may be lined back to about 1050 B.C. with the Hallstatt and La Tene cultures. Austrian culture started to take form while the Austrian lands were part of the Holy Roman Empire, with the Privilegium Minus of 1156, which advertised Austria to the status of a Duchy, marking an vital step in its development. Austrian culture has largely been influenced by its neighbors, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Bohemia. Moreover, it’s the country that made such an tremendous musical donations to the world or had such a permanent influence on the international musical scene as has Austria over the course of its long and distinctive history.

Austria offers everything from spectacular vistas to Alpine splendor to pulsating nightlife to sophisticated shopping to classical culture to culinary adventure. Furthermore, Austria is a state with a rich ethnical inheritance where Vienna is the center of the vital and large Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire. Vienna is as well the capital of the baroque architecture, and the capital of music with names such Mozart, Strauss, Schubert, Haydn, Wagner and Viennese Walz.