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Travel to the Venue Public Service Vehicles (Metroplan) By plane Vienna International Airport at Schwechat, 19 kilometers from the city center, is state-of-the-art in every respect, featuring many restaurants and fine boutiques. The airport is served directly by all major European airlines. Star Alliance The Star Alliance™ members are pleased to be appointed as the "Official Airline Network" for EGU General Assembly 2005. To obtain details and conditions on "Star Alliance™ Conventions Plus" discounts and participating airlines *, please contact your local Star Alliance member and quote the following event code OS002S5. When making your travel plans please present confirmation of your registration on proof of attendance and ensure that the event code is listed on your ticket. *Participating airlines for this event: Air Canada, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Austrian Airlines, bmi, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Spanair, Thai Airways International, United and Varig. For further information about Star Alliance members please click here. To get downtown to Vienna from the airport to the hotels you can choose between taxi cabs, shuttle busses and subway, and non will take you any longer than 20 minutes. In only 16 minutes the City Airport Train takes its passengers non-stop from the airport to the heart of Vienna. Otherwise there are taxis. Participants are advised to make use of special weekend tariffs (APEX) or combined "travel-and-hotel" offers by their national agencies. By train Vienna occupies a hub position in Europe's international rail network. Intercity and international express trains connect the capital with all parts of Austria and with all major cities in Europe. Please visit the home page of the ÖBB for connections and special rates. By car Austria's expressway network extends right into Vienna, making it convenient and safe to reach the city by car or motorcoach from anywhere on the European continent. From the west to the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) Continue along Schönbrunnerstrasse until you reach Magaretengürtel. Turn left and follow the signs to Praha (Prague). Stay on the Gürtel (ring road) until just before you reach Heiligenstädterstrasse at which point you turn left in the direction of Praha into Adalbert-Stifter-Strasse. Continue along Adalbert-Stifter-Strasse crossing Floridsdorfer Brücke (Floridsdorf Bridge) and join the A22 motorway in the direction of Graz/Linz/Budapest. Leave the A22 at the Kagran/Vienna International Center/Donau City exit and follow the signs for Austria Center Vienna. From the south to the ACV From the east (airport) to the ACV From northwest to the ACV About Vienna Vienna, the old imperial residence city now a modern art center, remains a city for connoisseurs - where you can enjoy endless waltzes, the exciting contrasts between imperial and modern architecture, a relaxed shopping trip or simply the life of coffee houses and Heurigen, trendy bars and sausage vendors and discos. There is no other city where so many famous composers have lived; the variety of music is manifold in Vienna. You can visit the "House of Music" and the memorial houses of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Johann Strauss and Arnold Schönberg. In 2006, Vienna will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfang Amadeus Mozart. Vienna was an imperial residence for several centuries and it has a great historical tradition. Follow in the tracks of the former Habsburg monarchy, visit the magnificent baroque castles “Schönbrunn” and “Belvedere” or visit the Hofburg, the Habsburg palace. You can also experience the spirit and the grand imperial style by visiting the Stephansdom, Spanish Court Riding School. Alternatively, you could try the Big Wheel at the Prater. The old town of Vienna belongs to the UNESCO world cultural heritage. |