Macedonia

The Emmental Introduction The Emmental is in west central Switzerland, and it is a region there that forms part of the canton of Bern. It is a beautiful and hilly landscape, and it comprises the basins of the Ilfis and Emme rivers. The region has ...

Toggenburg Introduction Toggenburg is a historical part of the country of Switzerland. It comprises the upper valley of the river of Thur, as well as its tributary, the Necker. Since 2003, Toggenburg has been a constituency of the St. Gallen Canto ...

The knights of the Teutonic Order arrived in Vienna in the 13th century. They established their quarters near the Stephansdom, but only the tower still stands today. In the 15th century, they built the present Gothic church of St Elizabeth. Its Bar ...

The new town hall, built in 1872—83 by Friedrich Schmidt, lies in an attractive park. The symmetrical, triple fa?ade of the Neo-Gothic building faces Ringstrasse. Its huge central tower, 98 m (321 ft) high, is topped by the statue of a knight-in- ...

This small town, just outside Vienna, was once the main seat of the Babenberg rulers. In the early 12th century, Margrave Leopold III built his castle here, and later the collegiate church, the magnificent Stift Klosterneuburg, supposedly in atonem ...