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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 9 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Austria to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available). Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Austria below.
 | 1996 - Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn | Cultural site |
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| 1996 - Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg | Cultural site | |
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| 1997 - Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape | Cultural site | |
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| 1998 - Semmering Railway | Cultural site |
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| 1999 - City of Graz - Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg | Cultural site | |
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| 2000 - Wachau Cultural Landscape | Cultural site | |
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| 2001 - Historic Centre of Vienna | Cultural site |
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| 2001 - Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape | Cultural site | |
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| 2011 - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps | Cultural site |
Historic Centre of Vienna
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Austria are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2012 - Falconry, a living human heritage |
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| 2012 - Schemenlaufen, the carnival of Imst, Austria |