Austria

Viennale 2016 Vienna International Film Festival 20 October – 3 November 2016

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The Viennale is Austria’s most important international film event, as well as being one of the oldest and best-known festivals in the German-speaking area. Every October, the VIENNALE takes place in beautiful cinemas in Vienna’s historic centre, providing a festival with an international orientation and a distincitve urban flair. A high percentage of the approximately 65,000 visitors to the festival from Austria and abroad is made up of a decidedly young audience.

Austria

Monet bis Picasso. The Batliner Collection at Albertina

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The Albertina is home to one of the most important European collections of classical modernist paintings: the Batliner Collection. The works contained therein represent the core holdings of the museum’s Permanent Collection. Read more

Giant Ferris Wheel • Vienna, Austria

250 years of the Prater

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2016 is a major anniversary year for the Prater: Emperor Joseph II. opened the former hunting grounds to the public 250 years ago. Read more

Emperor Franz Joseph • Austria

Emperor Franz Joseph: 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his death

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Emperor Franz Joseph died in Schönbrunn Palace on 21 November 1916. The 100th anniversary of the death of the longest-serving Habsburg emperor will be marked in 2016 by a number of exhibitions that will show interesting and so well known aspect of his life and reign. Read more