This is one of the few places in the world that I visited 20+ years ago that has maintained its original charm.
SPITZ - charm of the Biedermeier
Nestle amid the green vineuard-covered hillsides, this peaceful village seems like it is plucked out of an old movie. The town's emblem is the famous Tausendeimerberg, a mountain which, according to old legends, can produce a thougsan buckets of wine in the years of good grape harvests.
I visited a local winery while in Spitz.
WEISSENKIRCHEN - the biggest wine-growing community
This is the little village where I stayed. This area represents more than one third of Wachau's total wine-growing area, spanning some 1,300 acres. One of the oldest fortified church squares in Austria is St. Michael's , first chronicled in 987.
MELK - the baroque jewel
Towering impressively skywards above Melk's Old Town is an abbey originally built by Jakob Prantauer. The Benedictine abbey, founded in 1089, invites visitors to take an extraordinary tour through the magnificent marble hall, the library with 85,000 volumes and 1,200 manuscripts, the terraces with views over the Danube and of course the church.
This is a Benedictine abbey built in 1072. It burned in 1718, and was rebuilt on a grander scale. It is a masterpiece in baroque architecture. Paul Toger , one of the most famous fresco painters of the era, painted the fresco above the magnificant master staircase in 1739, painting Cahrles VI as Apollo.
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