Burgenland

The most unfamous province is Burgenland. It boarders to Hungary and is about 1,529 square miles big and has 284,900 citizens. The capital is Eisenstadt. It is also the place of the "Schloss Esterházy" from the 13th century.

view over Eisenstadt

Schloss Esterhazy  

One of the most famous aspects about the Burgenland is probably the wine industry. At the area around the Neusiedlersee you can find especially the nobl red attacks grape is growing. It is mainly red wine which is coming from this region. At the hills at the Neusiedlersee the most famous is the "Ruster Ausbruch dessert wine" from the western shore of the lake. The South is famous for their "Blaufränkisch" kind of wine.



Burgenland wine hills

 

Lake "Neusiedl" or "Neusiedlersee" is located in Burgenland. It is the second largest steppe lake in Central Europe. It is located at the Hungarian Boarder but is a little bit more than 2/3 in Austria and a little bit less than 1/3 in Hungary. It is at no place deeper than 1.8 meter. Podersdorf lighthouse at the Neusiedlersee
Neusiedlersee

 Since 55 years every year at the Neusiedlersee at a small town called Mörbisch there is a Opera in an open air arena. This years opera is "Der Bettelstudent" written by Carl Millöcker.
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http://www.seefestspiele-moerbisch.at/

Mörbisch Opera Stage at the Neusiedlersee

Every year Burgenland is the location for a lot of different music festivals at the location called "Wiesn". Those are all about different music genres and most of them bring international artists to Austria. 
The most famous ones are the "Nova Rock" and the "Two days a Week" festival. Therefor artists like "Metallica", "Linkin Park", "The Offspring", "Limp Bizkit", "Nightwish" or "Blink182" visited Austria.  
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http://www.wiesen-festivals.at/

last year's trailer for the "Nova Rock Festival"