Vienna: The Romans called the Vindobona, origin name celta that means white city.
Vienna has a continental, own climate of the valley of the Danube, influenced by its proximity to the Alps. The annual average temperature is of 9.5 °C, with an important oscillation annual, but little as far as the daily one. The precipitations are of 644 mm, without months droughts, but with a maximum in summer. Invier to us they are very cold, with average around the 0 °C and frequent frosts and snow-covered temperatures, with -25 records °C. The summers are smooth and humid, the temperatures, although they are not warm, can surpass the 35 sometimes °C. The autumn and the spring are very variable as far as temperatures, and with relatively abundant precipitations.
At the moment Vienna owns the first position within the lists of quality of life of cities of the world, basically due to its order, cleaning, security and discharge efficiency of the services public, as well as by the variety of options of education, culture and entertainment.
UNESCO declared the “historical Center of Vienna” like to pleases Patrimony of the Humanity, emphasizing in the first pleases that to their architectonic and urban qualities represent an excellent testimony of to continuous interchange of VALUEs throughout II the millenium. In addition, its architectonic and urban inheritance illustrates three periods keys of the political and cultural development of Europe very well: the Average Age, the baroque period and the Gründerzeit. Finally, from the century XVI Vienna universally it you have been recognized like the “musical capital of Europe”.
Austria is one of the 10 richest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita and is the tenth top countries with highest GDP of the European Union. It has a social market economy and a well developed very high standard of living. Until the 1980s, many companies were nationalized. In recent years, however, privatization has reduced state holdings to a level comparable to other European economies. Together with a highly developed industry, international tourism is the most important part of the national economy. Germany has historically been the main trading partner of Austria, making it vulnerable to the rapid evolution of the German economy. But since Austria became a member state of the European Union, have established closer links with other European Union economies and reduced economic dependence on Germany. Moreover, the number of members of the EU prepared an influx of foreign investors attracted by access to the single European market and proximity to the EU. GDP growth accelerated in recent years and reached 3.3% in 2006.
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