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Summer in the city of Graz: A sand pit was set up on the city’s main square. Fun & innovative ideas like this one were part of the reason that the city was named “European Capital of Culture.”
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The city is very progressive in many regards – not least transportation: Aside from high usage of bikes, public transport is free on Saturdays and any time within the city center.
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An establishment: Graz’ hotdog stands on the main square (Hauptplatz) have served several generations well.
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There’s music at every turn in Graz, Austria’s second-most populous city.
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The city’s iconic clock tower stands exactly 123 meters higher than the main square – a convenient number for schoolchildren to remember.
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Old meets new at the Kunsthaus – art museum – of Graz.
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A funicular connects the top of Schlossberg – a mountain at the center of the city that used to be home to the castle around which Graz materialized (and after which it was named) – to the old town. Oh, and there is also a formula one car there.
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Traces of Graz date back to before Roman times, but it was in the middle ages and thereafter that the city really blossomed. Traces of Habsburg rule – a branch of which had their capital in Graz for over a century – can still be found all over the city, like in the case of this “court bakery” still displaying the monarchy’s double-headed eagle.
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Graz has a historic city center that is one of two UNESCO world heritages located here.