Schloss Orth is one of the largest Renaissance buildings in Lower Austria. Today it houses the Donauauen national park centre and is the meeting centre...

The Donau Auen National Park, lying between Vienna and Bratislava, covers an area of nearly 10,000 hectares along a 36 kilometre stretch of the Danube....

The Jadgschloss Eckartsau is on the site of a much older moated castle dating at least from the 11th century. In the 18th century the...

The Heidentor is Austria’s best know Roman monument and can be found about 10 minutes walk to the south of the Pertonell Carnuntum amphitheatre. It...

The impressive Amphitheatre Petronell, also known as Amphitheatre II, is about 700 metres from the Open Air Museum Petronell. It is one of two in...

The open air museum was created in a section of the former Roman city of Carnuntum. Visitors can walk along the ancient roads past houses,...

The so called Palace Ruins, adjacent to the site of Carnuntum’s forum, are situated to the west of Schloss Petronell. The ruins are, in fact,...

Schloss Petronell, originally an 11th century moated castle, stands approximately on the site of the forum of the Roman settlement of Carnuntum. The building was...

Amphitheatre I is the smaller of the Roman settlement of Carnuntum’s amphitheatres. It was built in the second century AD about five hundred metres from...

The 17th C. Schloss Ludwigstorff in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg is a 17th century building built on the site of an earlier mediaeval castle. The castle belonged...

The Romanesque and Gothic Marienkirche, also known as the Stephanskirche, was founded by King Stephen of Hungary around 1020 AD. The strange building stands on...

The Archaeological Museum Carnuntinum, opened by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1904, is located in a villa built in the style of a Roman country house,...

The Kurzentrum Ludwigstorff-Kaiserbad houses the Carnuntum thermal springs. The waters are one of the most prolific sources of sulphur and iodine in Europe. The hot...

On the Pfaffenberg south of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg a temple precinct was uncovered, dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus Carnuntinus and the imperial cult. The remains of...

The Stadtmuseum opened in 1913 and by the 1920s contained around 1200 exhibits. During the Second World War over ninety percent of the exhibits disappeared...

The Baroque Stadtpfarrkirche was constructed between 1696 and 1702 around an existing ancient tower which was adapted to Baroque form by replacing its original pyramidal...

Schloss Prugg was built in the 12th century around a much older Roman tower. In 1564 it came into the possession of the Barons von...

The Jüly Familienmuseum was set up in 1992 to preserve the agricultural heritage of the Jüly family. The museum is housed in a replica of...

In the Middle Ages, Hainburg had a substantial Jewish population and the Gothic synagogue on Wiener Strasse is the oldest in Austria. The building, which...

Hainburg’s Hauptplatz became the town’s centre when the new parish church was constructed at the beginning of the 18th century. There are some notable buildings...