Best for: Art and architecture, museums, music, crafts and heritage
Why go: Experience Austria's cultural riches, from superb art collections and museums to era-defining architecture, as well as some of the finest music venues in Europe
Route: Imst; Salzburg; Salzkammergut; Vienna; Burgenland
Austria has culture in spades. From the imperial court of the Habsburgs, where generations of patronage funded Europe's finest artists, architects and composers, to the traditional crafts and heritage practised in rural areas, there is plenty to mull over.
Shrovetide carnival traditions, in particular, come with a distinctively Alpine flavour – and nowhere more so than in Imst, near
