Austria Guide: Culture

If you really want to make a new life in a country, you need to understand the people who live there. Our guide will give you useful and interesting information about culture and history, people, traditions, customs and more.

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  Austrian wine regions to visit

  Austria's wine heritage

  Austria is well known for waltzes, classic music and Sissi the empress but who would have thought that Austria had a rich wine heritage?

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  The Austrian Kaffeehaus Culture

  Austrian coffee tradition

  According to folklore, soldiers of the Polish-Habsburg army, while liberating Vienna from a Turkish invasion in 1683, found many sacks with beans that they believed contained camel feed and wanted to burn. Luckily, that was not to be and Polish king Jan III Sobieski granted the sacks to one of his officers, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki. After some trial and error, he finally learned how to roast and prepare the coffee. The Austrian coffee tradition was born when he opened the country's first Kaffeehaus.

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