Private Tour Concentration Camp Mauthausen, with Melk & Dürnstein
从维也纳到毛特豪森、梅尔克和杜恩施坦的私人旅游
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On this privately guided tour, your guide will accompany you through the sacred, medieval and national socialistic history of Austria. We stop for to take pictures wherever and whenever you like.
Melk Abbey, our first stop after a 80 km ride, is the largest baroque monastery in Austria and one of the largest in all of Europe.
This Benedictine abbey is also home to Austria's oldest existing school, the Stiftsgymnasium. Then we drive 1 hour further to the concentration camp in Mauthausen and let ourselves be guided through the entire facility with its many barracks, fortifications and watchtowers. We also visit the museum inside and learn all the essentials about everyday life in the camp.
Our way back to Vienna takes us to the medieval town Dürnstein, situated in the most beautiful section of the Danube for our last stop. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage area. Way back from the Crusades, King Richard 1st Lionheart was captured here. We follow his footsteps on the Lionheart's path
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Melk Abbey
1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket FreeArriving at Melk Abbey, our first stop, you can visit the abbey complex with free admission. If you are interested in a guided tour, this is optionally possible. guided tour per person. Today's baroque building was erected between 1702 and 1746 by Jakob Prandtauer. It is described as "the most iconic and dominant baroque building", one of the biggest in Europe. It also houses the Abbey high school Melk, the oldest existing school in Austria. Manuscripts in the Abbey Library of Melk indicate that a community of priests maintained a kind of collegiate monastery under the Babenberg Margrave Leopold I. between 976 and 994 AD. As a symbol of the Wachau, it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage.KZ-Gedenkstatte Mauthausen
2 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeOur 2nd stop is Mauthausen, where we visit the concentration camp and dive into the sad past of the Nazi regime. An Audio-guided tour in many different languages of the facility gives you an insight into the sad camp life of the prisoners. The Mauthausen concentration camp was the largest National Socialist concentration camp in Austria from August 8, 1938 until its dissolution, after the liberation of its inmates by US troops, on May 5, 1945. Around 200,000 people were imprisoned in Mauthausen and its satellite camps, of which more than 100,000 people lost their lives. Since 1947 there has been a memorial of the Republic of Austria on the site of the former concentration camp.Durnstein
2 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeTo banish the gloomy thoughts, we want to put some joy in your face with the last stop in the medieval town of Dürnstein, located in the most beautiful section of the Danube valley, the Wachau, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and also Austria's most famous wine-growing region. We enter the village through the archway of the city walls and take time to see the old buildings and shops, take photos and taste local delicacies such as wines, liqueurs and sweets. Beautiful photo motifs are the old town hall, which is often booked for weddings from all over Austria, the Dürnstein Abbey, whose history begins with the consecration of Mary's chapel in 1372 and the view from the fortress to the city and the river Danube. We can also hike the Lionheart Trail to the fortress ruins and learn about the history of England's most famous King, Richard 1st, the Lionheart, who was held here as a prisoner on his way back from the Crusades. We then return along the Danube to Vienna, to your desired end point
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