2. Austria borders in the north with Germany and the Czech Republic,
in the south with Italy and Slovenia, in the west with Switzerland
and in the east with Slovakia and Hungary.

3. The major river is the Danube in the north, entering Austria at Passau on the
German border; through Linz and Vienna to Bratislava in the Slovakian border.
In total 373 kilometers northeast of Austria. In Germany receives the Inn, which
passes through the city, with its tributary the Salzach, Salzburg passing.
To the west of the country is Lake Constance, which is the largest and forms the
western border with Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. To the east is the
Neusiedl, on the border with Hungary.

4. Austria has 9 states. They are divided into 84 districts and 15 statutory
cities

5. 1.Grossglockner: 3798m 2.Wildspitze: 3772m
3-10.Glockner Group (Kleinglockner:
3770m)

6. Heinz Fischer took office on 8th
July 2004 and was re-elected for a
second and last term on 25th April
2010. He was born in Graz, Styria.
He studied law at the University
of Vienna, earning a doctorate in
1961. In 1963, at the age of 25,
Fischer spent a year volunteering
at Kibbutz Sarid, northern Israel.
Apart from being a politician,
Fischer also pursued an academic
career, and became a professor of
Political Science at the University
of Innsbruck in 1993.

7. Werner Faymann (born 4th May 1960)is
the foreing minister of Austria. From
1985 to 1988 Faymann was a consultant
at the Zentralsparkasse, which he left to
become director and provincial
chairman of the Viennese Tenants'
counselling. He was also provincial
chairman of Socialist Youth Vienna
(Sozialistische Jugend Wien) from 1985
to 1994, when he became a member of
the Viennese state parliament and
municipal council; where he held
various positions concerning housing
construction and urban renewal. On 16th
June 2008 Faymann succeeded
Gusenbauer as chairman of the Social
Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and
led the party in the snap legislative
elections, held on 28th September 2008.

8.  In prehistoric times the lands of Austria were once
inhabited by various tribes of Celtic origin, first called
Illyrians and later Celtic tribes from the north.
Illyrians came from Epirus to the shores of the Baltic
Sea, from what is now Switzerland to Poland. Upper
Austria was where they got further development from
the end of the Bronze Age to the first half of the Iron
Age. They were engaged in piracy and finally fought
and defeated by the Romans.
It was the Romans who claimed the Celtic kingdom of
Noricum turning it into a province from 15 b.C.

9. Austrian education system has a very high level. Until recently, access to college was
practically free (referring to economic status). Today we must pay a tax, which is low
compared with other countries. There are 20 universities spread across 8 cities in the
Austrian geography.
In the past as an European power, Austria and its cultural environment generated a huge
essential contribution to European culture through various forms of art, especially in
music. Vienna was from the late eighteenth century until the First World War, the
cultural capital of Europe.
Austria has been the birthplace of many famous composers such as Gluck, Mozart, Hayden,
Schubert. There have also been famous filmmakers such as Stefan Ruzowitzky, he was
the first Austrian to win an Oscar.

10.  Diego Fernández Torreira
 Alejandro Pérez Forján
 Rubén Esturado Mariño