| AUSTRIAThe world's best music festivals.
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| | Hagen slew their hero, Siegfried and
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| The world's biggest and most famous music
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| | threw their treasure into the river. A
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| festival is the Salzburg Festival. Other
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| | huge statue of Hagen commemorates the
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| important Austrian melomaniac delights
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| | story. The town was destroyed in A.D.
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| include the Haydn Festival in Vienna and
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| | 436 by Attila the Hun. In the center of
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| the International Chamber Music Festival.
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| | the town's old section is the tall,
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| Tickets to the festivals are cheapest if
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| | spired Cathedral of Saints Peter and
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| you buy them in Austria. "Tickets for
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| | Paul, built in the 11th and 12th
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| Events in Austria" is an information
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| | centuries. Worms has a huge statue of
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| sheet which is available from Austrian
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| | Martin Luther; the oldest synagogue in
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| National Tourist Office, tel.
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| | Germany, built in the 11th century and
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| (212)944-6880; website: world's best
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| | restored in 1961; and the oldest and
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| horsemanship. The 400-year-old Spanish
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| | largest Jewish cemetery in Europe.
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| Riding School, located in the Hofburg,
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| | Tombstones date from the 11th
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| trains the noble white stallions that
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| | century.Hitler's favorite hideout. The
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| descend from the Spanish horses imported
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| | Kehlsteinhouse (also known as Eagle's
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| to Austria by Emperor Maximilian II in
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| | Nest), perched on a rocky crag above the
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| the 16th century. The horses dance to
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| | town of Berchtesgaden, was Hitler's
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| Viennese music, guided by expert riders
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| | favorite hideout. No wonder-the view
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| wearing the traditional gold-buttoned
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| | from the hideaway-turned-restaurant is
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| brown uniform and gold-braided black hat.
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| | exhilarating. Anyone could develop
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| Performances are held at the school most
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| | delusions of grandeur here. Alpine peaks
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| Sunday mornings at 10:45 a.m. and
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| | rise above cottony clouds at this level.
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| occasional Wednesday nights at 7 p.m.
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| | The snow at their summits glistens in the
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| from March to June and September to
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| | sun. Below, a thick carpet of dark green
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| December. It's difficult to get tickets;
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| | pines stretches toward the valley. The
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| write six months in advance to the
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| | road to Eagle's Nest is so steep and
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| Spanische Reitschule, Hofburg, A-1010
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| | dangerous that cars are not allowed to
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| Vienna, Austria; tel. (43)1-533-9031.The
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| | use it; you must take a special bus from
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| most romantic hotel. Less than an hour
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| | the Obersalzberg-Hintereck parking lot.
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| from Vienna, the Schloss Durnstein, tel.
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| | You can dine in the restaurant from
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| (43)2-711-212, presides over a wide curve
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| | mid-May through mid-October.The world's
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| of the Danube River. Located deep in the
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| | best passion play. Every 10 years, the
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| wine district of Wachsu, this magnificent
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| | world's most moving passion play is
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| castle is surrounded by distinctive
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| | performed in the shadows of the Alps in
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| vine-clad hills, age-old ruins and
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| | the little artisan town of Oberammergau.
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| timeless picturesque villages with
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| | From May through September in years
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| one-lane streets. According to the
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| | ending in zero, local amateur actors put
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| legend, it was here that the imprisoned
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| | aside their daily professions and devote
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| King Richard the Lionhearted was reunited
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| | themselves entirely to the play. Written
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| with his faithful minstrel, who had sung
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| | in the 17th century, it enacts Christ's
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| his way across Europe searching for his
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| | suffering between the Last Supper and his
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| master. Also intriguing is the wine
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| | death. Villagers have performed the play
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| cellar (which can accommodate 8,000
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| | every 10 years since the 17th century,
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| "buckets" of wine), the arch-crossed
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| | when they vowed they would perform the
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| cobbled courtyard and the 33 rooms all
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| | passion if the black plague ceased. It
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| with chandeliers fronting the
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| | did and they have. The picturesque
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| Danube.GERMANYHeidelberg, the most
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| | Passionsspielhaus (Passion play Theater)
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| romantic town. Heidelberg is the hub of
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| | can be visited any time of the year. The
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| German Romanticism. Schumann began his
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| | immense open-air stage holds 700 actors
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| career as a Romantic composer in this
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| | and the theater's wooden benches hold
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| pretty town and Goethe fell in love here.
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| | 5,200 people. You can see the elaborate
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| Heidelberg is also the oldest university
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| | costumes used during the passion play
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| town in Germany and the site of scenes
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| | when you visit. Performances begin at
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| from the movie and opera The Student
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| | 8:30 a.m. and finish at 6 p.m., with a
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| Prince. The best place to ramble in
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| | two-hour break for lunch. The best hotel
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| Heidelberg is the Haupstrasse, which is
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| | Oberammergau is the Alois Lang. This
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| lined with coffeehouses and little shops.
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| | quiet place has rooms with private
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| Have a drink in one of the cafes beneath
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| | bathrooms and three good dining rooms.The
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| the rathaus. Or meander along
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| | world's best asparagus. Every spring,
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| Philosopher's Walk, where Goethe and
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| | Germans go stalk-raving mad, gorging
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| Hegel wandered. From the path you'll
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| | themselves on the country's Weisser
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| have a bird's-eye view of the city and
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| | Spargel, or white asparagus. The German
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| Heidelberg Castle. Don't leave town
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| | asparagus, introduced 2,000 years ago by
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| without visiting the Electoral Palatinate
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| | the Romans, is plump and ivory white with
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| Museum, where the 500,000-year-old
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| | delicate purple tips. It is prized among
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| jawbone of Heidelberg Man is
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| | epicures, who come from around the world
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| kept.Germany's best fish market. The
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| | every April, May and June to the world's
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| best fish market in Germany is held on
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| | asparagus mecca. Asparagus is especially
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| Sunday mornings in Hamburg. This raucous
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| | big business in Finthen, near Mainz,
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| but fun affair is located by the docks in
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| | where all 5,000 inhabitants are engaged
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| Altona and begins at 5 a.m.Worms: the
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| | in the cultivation of the white
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| strangest history. The city of Worms has
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| | vegetable; in Lampertheim, between Worms
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| a strange name and an even stranger
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| | and Mannheim, where every housewife grows
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| history. It was named for a legendary
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| | the prized vegetable in her back yard; in
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| giant worm with fangs and webbed feet
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| | Schrobenhausen, the center of the only
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| that lived in the Rhine and demanded
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| | area in southern Bavaria where asparagus
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| human sacrifices. Worms was the
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| | is grown; and in Tettnang and
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| fifth-century capital of the legendary
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| | Schwetzingen, known together as the
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| Nibelungs. The tribe left the area,
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| | asparagus capital of Germany.
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| according to legend, after the wicked
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