Rick Steves Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol

Who hasn't seen "The Sound of Music" and marveled at the eye-popping scenery? Wonder no more. This new Rick Steves travel guide covers the Austrian Alps and adjacent portions of the mountain range in Germany, Italy, and Slovakia. It also covers the long-lived Austrian city of Vienna, once the capital of the vast Hapsburg Empire and today a center of art and culture in many forms.This Rick Steves guide offers the necessary detail to plan a visit to this beautiful region of central Europe. The guide covers where to go, what to see, how to get there, and where to eat and sleep. Detailed itineraries will make for reasonable choices on a region packed with sights to see. The text includes a selection of color and black and white photographs, along with maps and diagrams of key items of interest.As with other Rick Steves guides, the enterprising traveler is urged to read the entire book before making choices. These choices may well include venues associated with "The Sound of Music". Very well recommended to the enterprising traveler.