BAD REICHENHALL – Bavaria

charming , historical SPA resort , renown for its  mineral waters , fresh air , vistas , walks can be as well launching place for many side trips . Salzburg – Birth place of Mozart . Berchtesgaden- great Bavarian Alps vistas.

sadly place associated with horrors  concocted there by Nazi German leaders , who brought holocaust and WWII on humanity .  Konigsee – with St. Bartholomew’s Church by the shore of the lake , frequently visited by Pilgrims and also tourists .

Before any side trips the Spa resort of Bad Reichenhall has to be enjoyed .  Cherish Spa for health  needs  , just like  King Maximilian II , Otto von Bismarck also Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who used salt inhalations in this lovely SPA. Town  is  rich of history and natures beauty .

Bad Reichenhall central place for visitors is  The Königliches Kurhaus , ( Royal Spa House) , elegant neo Baroque and neo- Renaissance architecture buildings .

In the Spa complex  beside health benefits provided there , lovely gardens ,mighty structure of SALT TOWER  ( Graduation Tower ) can be enjoyed  with  walks around the structure  to inhale salt water  therapeutic mist .

Florian Platz in Old Town , with beautifully decorated “painted houses” presenting Bavarian themes of traditions  and life styles of Bavaria is very pleasing visit .

Walking or  sitting on the bench presents time to reflect on that nice town .

St. Pankratz  , for pilgrims and any one who wishes to climb the hill to visit that old church ,with   great views of Bad Reichenhall  presents some special experience .

After busy days of fun , evening dinner of Bavarian food specialties of  Sauerbraten ( marinated meat ) , with red cabbage and dumplings , chased by GUSTL Bavarian beer , at Brauereigasthof  full of  Bavarian hospitality  , provides opportunity to get acquainted with  true Bavarian culture .

Bad Reichenhall is easily accessible by trains , busses serving connections with Munich or Salzburg . Go and visit that town truly remarkable  jewel of Bavarian Alps SPA .

TSCHUSS , AUF WIEDERSEHEN , GOODBYE

October 2025  WMIG- WOWOI

“Wien, Wien, nur du allein“ , world renown Viennese music , charming tune   composed by   Rudolf Sieczyński , of Polish ancestry , in year  1914,  is composed with emotion  and desired , therefore  great start for readers to find some impression of Vienna .. That great musically and poetically song and music  says ,  Vienna, Vienna, only you alone. Tune and words expressing nostalgic love of the city  .  Vienna magnetic city , capital of Austria , touches  hearts , imagination of todays visitors , travelers visiting this magic city . Through its history , art , architecture ,  Viennese traditions ,city stimulates minds of visitors to travel through their own  imagination to  reach world of OLD  Vienna past, to enjoy  todays VIENNA .

City of Wien as Austrian call it ,  has been through it history regarded  as world capital of music . Here many world  loved  composers found their home  .In Vienna as well  great musical master works were composed .  Once Viennese School of Music ,  was considered centre of music world  .  Lives  history  of many musicians ,like Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven also  Franz Schubert, Johann Strauss II (the “Waltz King”), and later artists like Mahler , brings the feeling and  desire  for  humming  these great composers  tunes , like” BLUE DANUBE  “  while on exploration walks of Vienna.

Beside music  also many great painters are  with Viennese links . The  20th-century is in  Vienna Secession and Modernism  era . Time when  many artists broke from traditional art of painting . Amazing  works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka, always present strong feelings and emotions .

While in Vienna one comes across STOWASSER , visual art , architect creator of astonishing  works . He is known as Friedrich Hundertwasser and  is present through his works ,in many corners of Vienna . Art is a compass to Vienna history , traditions . Take it and go through many palaces , churches , places of fun like Grinzing , Prater ,wine cellars or go to Beer STUBE to enjoy glass of Viennese beer OTTAKRINGER .   Stephansdom – St. Stephens Cathedral , symbolic place of warship , visible  from many places in Vienna , like BELVEDERE , is great place to explore ALTE WIEN , inner part of Vienna . Transport of Vienna  tramways , Schnellbahn , or U-Bahn will carry visitor to many places of  desired visits , like   Schonbrunn .  Here in Vienna , not far from Opera House , by Karntstrasse,  KarlsKirche , with its  tall columns is also place  worth visiting .  Many more fantastic places await visitors in the city of great history . .Vienna is the “must” city to visit while in Europe .Go and fly to Vienna .

WMIG- MIWOI