Innsbruck Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/cat/austria/innsbruck Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:35:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 TRAVEL TO INNSBRUCK http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-innsbruck.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-innsbruck.html#respond Mon, 20 Jun 2016 04:40:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=206168 TRAVEL TO HISTORY Two small settlements built on both sides of the river Inn, were joined in 1187 by the “Inspruke” (bridge of the Inn river). The castle Ambras already stood in the 10th century as the seat of the Andechs from Ammersee. In 1239 Innsbruck was given freedom of the town, in 1363 it became a county in the possession of the Habsburgs and in 1420 Duke Friedrich IV moved his residence from Merano to Innsbruck. Under the Emperor Maximilian I and the Habsburg Empress the city made great progress, but however lost its function as residence after the

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-innsbruck.html/feed 0 INNSBRUCK MAP http://toursmaps.com/innsbruck-map.html http://toursmaps.com/innsbruck-map.html#respond Fri, 17 Jun 2016 01:55:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=206162 In the picturesque Inn valley, between the Karwendel mountains in the north and the Stubai and Tuxer Alps in the south, lies the beautiful capital of the Austrian Federal State of Tirol, which is the largest alpine city with its population of 121,000. Innsbruck combines old traditional values and modern business in a highly harmonious manner and is not only widely known for the freedom fighter Andreas Hofer and the hosting of two winter Olympic Games (1964 and 1978) but also for its trade fairs for tourism and alpine agriculture and especially for its optics industry. In addition the university

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