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Donaukanal

Donaukanal - Danube Canal from the Franzensbrücke. Donaukanal - Danube Canal. A former arm of the river Danube, now regulated as a water channel (since 1598), within the city of Vienna, Austria. It is 10.7 miles (17.3 km) long. "...the Danube, which is here divided into several arms. ... The S.W. arm, converted into the Donau-Kanal in 1869-73, flows through part of the city, where it receives the waters of the Wien, now almost wholly bridged and built over, and is protected by locks against floods and floating ice."--Baedeker 1911 P1260041
Vienna Day 1

September 30th 2011
We left Budapest at 8:00 a.m. for Vienna. The coach followed the M1 motorway through Hungary and then picked up the A4 in Austria. The drive took us through the Little Hungarian Plain, an area of rolling countryside south of the Danube in Western Hungary. After a rest stop midway, we reached Vienna at about 11:20 a.m. There was a break or lunch on our own before meeting for a walking tour of centr ... read more
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Austrian Flag Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more
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