Product Description

To make the most of Austria, look no further: Let Green Guide Austria lead your ascent to the highest peak of the Alps, take you to Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, or on a cruise down the serene Danube River. Michelin® Green Guide Austria offers recommendations of where to find the best Viennese coffee, where to hear Beethoven s triumphant symphonies, where to ski down the highest slopes, and where to explore National Parks. You can plot your journey using Michelin s many color maps and specialist authors driving and walking tours. This authoritative guide is all you need for your vacation to Austria. Features: - A Planning Your Trip section helps you organize your vacation from transportation to and around Austria through choosing where to stay. - Suggested outdoor activities and entertainment venues ensure you take advantage of the Alps, Vienna, Salzburg and Salzkammergut - Address Books placed throughout the guide show the most highly recommended restaurants and accommodations - Descriptions of the landscape and topography of the country from alpine glaciers through alpine flora - A well-researched history of Austria spans the Habsburg Dynasty through today - Features on architecture, art, and music give a clear insight into the country - Sights laid out alphabetically and provide easy navigation through the guide, while the Michelin® star ratings can direct your choice of journey - Specially created, mapped driving tours and local walking tours across Austria - 61 Michelin maps make plotting your journey easy - Clearly written excursions around many of the sights offer out-of-the-way surprises close to principal tourist attractions

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #177473 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Not as good as I expected
As one who buys a Green Michelin Guide as automatically as he books a cross-Channel passsage, I was disappointed with this one. Although the familiar layout and physical format is there, the coverage for Austria is skimpy compared with other countries. Outside Vienna, many places underlined in green are not even in the index. For Vienna, it spends pages 375 to 379 describing the contents of rooms in the Art History Museum, using what can be bought (and more up-to-date) for a few euros at the museum, in place of much-needed coverage of restaurants and accommodation. I spent half an hour working out what a 'Bezirk' is, vital to planning a day in Vienna. Poor value and untypical of the other Green Guides.