By Rick Steves / Rick Steves’ Europe Music lovers find special delights in Austria. In Salzburg at my favorite hotel, I lie in bed a hundred meters from Mozart’s dad.

Music lovers find special delights in Austria. In Salzburg at my favorite hotel, I lie in bed a hundred meters from Mozart’s dad. He’s just outside my window in the graveyard of the St.… ...

The festive swirl of heartwarming Christmas sights, sounds and smells abound in Austria — the land where the season’s most-loved carol, "Silent Night," was first performed more than 200 years ago.

Steves also recommends several sites on his blog for a dose of local history and culture. The first is the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology to pay a visit to Ötzi, the Bronze-age hunter whose ...

TRAVEL Rick Steves’ Europe: Hallstatt, Austria When Austrians want to enjoy the great outdoors, they head for a region of forested slopes, beckoning trails—and great fishing ...

Rick Steves’ Europe: Hallstatt, Austria When Austrians want to enjoy the great outdoors, they head for a region of forested slopes, beckoning trails—and great fishing April 30, 2010 ...