Category: Austria

Is World Heritage status enough to save endangered sites?; Robert Draper; National Geographic

Photo: Robert Harding Picture Library

For 50 years, UNESCO’S venerable list has recognized places of “outstanding universal value” for protection. But it comes with challenges from development to overtourism.

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Austria’s Most Unique UNESCO World Heritage Sites; UAEMoments; MSN

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Travelling to visit UNESCO world heritage sites is a trip of a lifetime, these destinations are always so different from everything you’ve seen as they’re filled with tales and history. Austria has many UNESCO world heritage sites to offer starting from the magnificent Schönbrunn Palace, the historical centers of Vienna, Salzburg and Graz, the charming landscapes of the Wachau, Lake Neusiedl and the Semmering Railway.

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