Favorite Thing: Melk is located only 85 kilometers from Vienna and is easy to make a day trip to enjoy the beauty of the place.
Melk is situated on the Wachau.
The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, in Lower Austria.
It is one of the most beautiful river landscapes in the world.
It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces - in terms of architecture, (monasteries, castles, ruins), urban design, (towns and villages), and agricultural use, principally for the cultivation of vines - of its evolution since prehistoric times.
You can reach Melk by car or by train, but I believe one of the most interesting ways of doing this is taking a "wachau river cruise"
"Take the train in the morning from Westbahnhof (Vienna) to Melk,visit the Melk Abbey, then board the ship in Melk at 13:50 for the journey to Krems and return to Vienna by train, arriving at Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof."
For timetables, kombitickets and more information:
BlueDanubeCruisesAustrianRailways
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