Weinviertel: region of wine culture

Gently rolling hills of the Weinviertel. Once you may have mighty wheat, raps or sun flower fields, once you may have impressive vineyards along the southern hillsides - a beautiful symbiosis that lends the region between the Danube and the Thaya river its smooth rhythm. A landscape whose wine is literally right below its skin: There is hardly any wine village in the Weinviertel which has not digged its proper cellar lanes into the soil - romantic like in Falkenstein or mighty like the cellar network in Retz. A region where peace reigns. Even on a bike you won’t get out of breath: an extensive bicycle network of nearly 800 km connects idyllic cellar lanes, picturesque vineyards and lovely villages as well as many castles, chateaus and museums.

The Vienna woods: country of idle strolls

Already since the Biedermeier Age, the Vienna woods with its densely wooded valleys and hills, thermal springs, romantic villages and many, many Heurigen inns have served stressed city people as their local recreational zone. People hungry for sport will find an incredible network of 6000 km of hiking paths and 900 km of sign-posted mountain bike tracks in the Vienna woods. The thermal springs in Baden and Bad Vöslau do not only attract sport people, but also health tourists. And culture and wine lovers have long discovered the region anyway: The large monasteries like Klosterneuburg and Heiligenkreuz have their proper wine growing estates, and the operetta town Baden combines culinary and classic delights in a perfect kind of way.