Wachau
The Wachau is in Lower Austria on the river banks of the Danube river. The area is approximately 30 kilometers long.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Krems and Melk.
Krems
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Krems an der Donau is a riverside town in the Danube's Wachau Valley tourist region of Lower Austria.
Melk
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Melk is a small riverside town on south bank of the Danube River in the Wachau Valley of Lower Austria. Melk marks the western terminus of the Wachau and lies upstream from Krems.
Dürnstein
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Dürnstein is a small town in the Wachau in Austria, on the river Danube. Together with the neighbouring villages of Oberloiben and Unterloiben it is one of the main wine-producing centres of the region, and attracts nearly 1.7 million visitors annually.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Weißenkirchen in der Wachau and Spitz.
Weißenkirchen in der Wachau
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Weißenkirchen in der Wachau is a small town in the Wachau valley, on the northern side of the Danube River.
Spitz
Spitz is a small town in the Wachau, on the river Danube. Together with the neighbouring villages of Gut am Steg, Schwallenbach, and Vießling it is a major wine-producing centre of the region.
Emmersdorf
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Emmersdorf an der Donau is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.
Wachau
- Type: Region
- Description: valley in Austria
- Category: valley
- Location: Lower Austria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wachau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wachau”
- Armenian: “Վախաու”
- Bavarian: “Wachau”
- Belarusian: “Вахау”
- Belarusian: “Вахаў”
- Bosnian: “Dolina Wachau”
- Bosnian: “Wachau”
- Bulgarian: “Вахау”
- Catalan: “Wachau”
- Chinese: “瓦豪”
- Chinese: “瓦赫低地”
- Chinese: “華豪”
- Croatian: “Dolina Wachau”
- Croatian: “Wachau”
- Czech: “Wachau”
- Danish: “Wachau”
- Dutch: “Wachau”
- Esperanto: “Wachau”
- Estonian: “Wachau (Austria)”
- Estonian: “Wachau”
- Finnish: “Wachau”
- French: “Wachau”
- Galician: “Wachau”
- Georgian: “ვახაუ”
- German: “Kulturlandschaft Wachau”
- German: “Wachau”
- Greek: “Βαχάου”
- Hebrew: “ואכאו”
- Hebrew: “עמק הואכאו”
- Hungarian: “Wachau”
- Irish: “Wachau”
- Italian: “Wachau”
- Japanese: “ヴァッハウ渓谷”
- Korean: “바하우”
- Latin: “Wachau”
- Latvian: “Vahava”
- Lithuanian: “Vachau”
- Macedonian: “Вахау”
- Maltese: “Wachau”
- Mingrelian: “ვახაუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wachau”
- Norwegian: “Wachau”
- Persian: “واخائو (دره)”
- Persian: “واخائو”
- Polish: “Dolina Wachau”
- Polish: “Wachau”
- Portuguese: “Paisagem Cultural de Wachau”
- Romanian: “Wachau”
- Russian: “Вахау”
- Russian: “Долина Вахау”
- Serbian: “Vahau”
- Serbian: “Вахау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wachau”
- Slovak: “Wachau”
- Slovenian: “Wachau”
- Spanish: “Wachau”
- Swedish: “Wachau”
- Turkish: “Wachau”
- Ukrainian: “Вахау”
- Vietnamese: “Wachau”
- Yue Chinese: “華豪”
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