Austria Guide
Styria
Graz
With a population of just over 250,000, GRAZ ranks as Austria's second city, and yet has always been overlooked by visitors en route to the more widely publicized delights of Salzburg and Innsbruck. This is partly due to the city's lack of an alpine hinterland, although the Styrian capital's geographical situation – straddling the River Mur and surrounded by rolling hills – is undeniably attractive. The elegant palaces town houses and museums of Graz's UNESCO-protected centre bear testimony to the city's Baroque heyday, while a spate of cutting-edge galleries – notably the Kunsthaus Graz – point to the city's present-day role as one of central Europe's main venues for contemporary art.
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