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Austria Travel Guide: Vienna

Austria Travel Guide,Tourist Information,Student Visa,Austrian Embassy List,Vienna Hotel Accommodation,Schools,Colleges Austria Travel Guide: Vienna Discount Hotels, Vacation Deals, Holiday Packages, Cheap Accommodation, Tourism & Student Visa & Austrian Embassy Information Search our website Home Site Map Travel Visa Info Hotels Hostels Car Hire Jobs Schools Products Traveler's Guide Visa & Embassy Guide Accommodation Finder Budget Hostels Guide Cheap Hotels Guide Tours Worldwide Travel Books Travel Forum Study Abroad Programs School & College Guide Top 10 Language Schools Browse for Schools Art & Design Schools Boarding Schools Guide Business Schools Guide Colleges, Diploma Programs Computer Science & IT Schools Distance Learning Programs Language Schools Worldwide Schools & Programs for Children Technical Colleges Courses TESOL / TEFL Courses Guide Universities & Gradschools Student Forums Travel > Austria Travel Guide Austria Travel Guide (Austria Visa & Embassy Info) Full country name: Republic of Austria Population: 8.02 million Capital City: Vienna Languages: German, English, Turkish, Slovenian, Croatian Religion: 88% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant Government: Federal Republic, Member of EU Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 (Central European Time) Dialling Code: 43 Electricity: 230V, 50Hz Weights & measures: Metric Money & Costs: Currency: Euro Meals Budget: 4-8 Mid-range: 8-20 High: 20-30 Top: 30+ Accommodation: Budget: 10-40 Mid-range: 40-80 High: 80-200 Top: 200+ Geography: Austria is a landlocked coubtry located in Central Europe with many easily traversable Alpine passes and valleys; major river is the Danube; population is concentrated on eastern lowlands because of steep slopes, poor soils, and low temperatures elsewhere. Eight countries namely Italy, Switzerland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia form the Austrian border. Vienna is the capital of Austria that lies on the Danube River and is partly surrounded by the hills of the Vienna Woods (Wienerwald). Austria is divided into nine federal provinces (Bundeslnder): Vienna (Wien), Lower Austria (Niedersterreich), Upper Austria (Obersterreich), Salzburg (Salzburg), Carinthia (Krnten), Tyrol (Tirol), Vorarlberg (Vorarlberg), Styria (Steiermark) & Burgenland (Burgenland) Climate: Austria enjoys a moderate continental climate featuring four distinct seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Summers are generally warm and pleasant with cool nights, Winters are sunny, with reliable and frequent snowfalls. The weather is changeable throughout the year. However, in summer rainfalls are usually heavy and of short duration only. Winters are rather cold in the North-East and can be lightened up by frequent and heavy warm & dry winds in some valleys in the Alps. Recommended clothing: European clothes according to season. Alpine wear for mountain resorts. Public Holidays: Jan 1 New Years Day. Jan 6 Epiphany. Apr 9 Good Friday. Apr 12 Easter Monday. May 1 Labour Day. May 20 Ascension Day. May 31 Whit Monday. Jun 10 Corpus Christi. Aug 15 Assumption. Oct 26 National Day. Nov 1 All Saints Day. Dec 8 Immaculate Conception. Dec 25 Christmas Day. Dec 26 St Stephens Day. Study in Austria: Below are the latest German language schools, art schools, business schools & colleges to join our directory. Latest German schools & private colleges to join: Location ActiLingua Academy Vienna THESALCON Vienna deutschinstitut.at Vienna Alpha Sprachinstitut Austria Vienna Das ABC-Zentrum Vienna You are here: Travel Guide>Austria Tourist Information, Study Visa Links Products & Services Advertise on Learn4good Add your School / Institute Learn English, ESL Exercises Free Spanish Lessons,CDs Electronic Translators Translation Software Frequently Asked Questions Recommended Links Notice Boards Top Destinations New York London Paris Rome Tokyo Osaka San Francisco Hostels Europe © 2003-2005 Learn4good Net : A network of websites listing Schools, Job Opportunities & Accommodation About Us | FAQs | Our Website Policy | Contact us

Central America Travel

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Europe Travel

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Italy Travel

Vicenza, Italy - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger,Sheboygan, Wisconsin Vicenza townsquare Vicenza (ancient Vicentia ), city in northern Italy, capital of Vicenza Province, in Veneto Region, situated at the junction of the Bacchiglione and Retrone rivers. Vicenza is a commercial and manufacturing center. Products include textiles, iron and steel, chemicals, and processed food. The town is noted for its splendid churches, palaces, and other buildings, many of which were designed by the architect Andrea Palladio. Parts of a 13th-century wall that encircled the town are still standing. so-called Basilica, or town hall, of Vicenza. (renovations started by Palladio in 1549) Vicenza was originally a Ligurian town. A free commune in the Middle Ages, it was ruled by Venice from 1404 to 1797 and by Austria from 1797 to 1866. The city was badly damaged in World War II (1939-1945). Population (1990 estimate) 109,333. Palladio, Andrea (1508-80), Italian architect, one of the most influential architects in European history. Palladio was born November 30, 1508, in Padua (Padova), and trained as a stonemason. Originally named Andrea di Pietro dalla Gondola, he received the name Palladio when he joined the academy of the Italian poet Giangiorgio Trissino, who oversaw Palladio's architectural studies. Trissino took him to Rome, where Palladio studied and measured Roman architectural ruins; he also absorbed the treatises of Vitruvius, possibly the most important of the Roman architects. One outcome of these studies was Palladio's Antiquities of Rome (1554), the principal guidebook to Roman ruins for the next two centuries. Palladio's first work of major importance was the renovation (begun 1549) of the facade and exterior supporting structure of the so-called Basilica, or town hall, of Vicenza. In and near Vicenza he designed many residences and public buildings. The best known of these are the Barbarano, Chieregati, Tiene, Porto, and Valmarana palaces and the Villa Capri, or Villa Rotonda. From about 1560 to 1580 he built several churches in Venice, notably San Francesco della Vigna, San Giorgio Maggiore, and Il Redentore. His last great work was the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, completed after his death (in Vicenza) in August 1580. Villa Rotonda Although the historical antecedents of Palladio's style are the classically Roman-influenced High Renaissance works of architects such as the Italian Donato Bramante, Palladio's own use of classical motifs came through his direct, extensive study of Roman architecture. He freely recombined elements of Roman buildings as suggested by his own building sites and by contemporary needs. At the same time he shared the Renaissance concern for harmonious proportion, and his facades have a noteworthy simplicityalmost austerityand repose. Palladio was the first architect to develop a systematic organization of the rooms in a house. He was also the first to apply to houses the pedimented porticos of Roman templesformal porches defined by a shallow triangular gable supported by a row of columns. Both these features are exemplified in the Villa Rotonda. Palladio's buildings were highly functional, often ingeniously so. In the facade of the basilica, for example, the arches are supported on slender columns; between the columns and the vertical piers that separate the arches are narrow rectangular spaces. (This pattern of an arch flanked by rectangular spaces was so widely imitated that it became known as the Palladian motif.) The arrangement allows the piers between the arches to be narrow, rather than wide and massive, and it allows more light to pass into the main building while giving the facade an open, harmonious appearance. Palladio was the author of an important scientific treatise on architecture, I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (1570, 2nd ed. 1580; trans. The Four Books of Architecture, 1571), which was widely translated and influenced many later architects. Its precise rules and formulas were widely utilized, especially in England, and were basic to the Palladian style, adopted by Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, and other English architects, which preceded and influenced the neoclassical architecture of the Georgian Style. Text by Microsoft Encarta building facade Fortress in Soave entrance courtyard carved stair post Return to Italy page Return to Europe page Return to People and Places