Wineries dot the bike path, but we must speed to Melk to rejoin the cruise and tour the cream-and-yellow baroque abbey that towers above the Danube. Before our bike departure, we walk into the ...

T he parking lot at Melk Abbey — a baroque-style abbey in a former castle and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — was completely empty when our bus pulled in. The wide-open inner courtyard was not ...

Around 100,000 books dating back to the year 900 and the many rooms are being restored at Austria’s historic Melk Abbey’s Library. Restoration work has begun in an Austrian library containing ...

By the afternoon, you'll have reached the grand city of Vienna, its beautiful Baroque palaces ... to the quaint cobbled streets and famous Abbey of Melk, also making a stop at the small town ...