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Welcome to our Heritage and History Tour series, a collection of touring sections that enable you to visit an extraordinary assortment of World Heritage Sites. This special line of journeys has been artistically tailored to offer you to discover some of mankind’s highest achievements and explore nature’s greatest wonders.

Since early 90's Heritage and History Tours had been pioneering tours to the home of so many civilizations and strives to give an understanding of the cultures and peoples who live there. As we travel in small groups or bigger groups, culture divides through real people to people contact. The main focus of our tours is the pursuit of knowledge and a better understanding of the world we live in and its early history.

Our journeys cover not only heritage sites, but also the Battle Reconstruction, Castle tours, Ghost tours, Gondola Rides and many more which signifies cultural diversity, awe-inspiring scenery and genuine interaction with the local people of the places we visit.

Another of Austria's most-visited palaces-and one that should definitely be included on your Vienna travel itinerary-is the spectacular Belvedere Palace (Schloss Belvedere).

The Emperor Maximilian I, who reigned in the late 1400s and early 1500s, made Innsbruck the main residence and the seat of the Hapsburg government and, as a result, a focal point of Europe

To the east of St. Veit, on a crag rising some 160-meters above the valley, sprawls the imposing Burg Hochosterwitz, Austria's most important medieval castle.

Melk Abbey is one of the world's most famous monastic sites, and its spectacular buildings are laid out around seven courtyards.

As the residence of Prince Archbishops, Salzburg was a spiritual center from the earliest days of Christianity in Europe.

Located on Vienna's outskirts, the Baroque Schönbrunn Palace was completed in the early 1700s and was later converted into a summer residence by Empress Maria Theresa.

The Spanish Riding School dates back to the time of Emperor Maximilian II, the man responsible for introducing the famous Lipizzaner horses into Austria in 1562.

The spectacular Hofburg Palace in Vienna was for centuries the seat of Austria's monarchy, the powerful Habsburgs. Now the President conducts state business in the same rooms that once belonged to Emperor Joseph II.