High On A Hill! A Kid's Guide To Innsbruck, Austria (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935630760)

Innsbruck, Austria is one of the most beautiful places in the entire world. High in the hills of Austria, you can get a feel of what it was like in the not too distant past, and in the old part of town, they have made great efforts to preserve what has made the town unique. Evidence shows habitation in the early Stone Age. Surviving pre-Roman place names show that the area has been continuously populated. Innsbruck is the capital city of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn Valley at the junction with the Sill River, and it provides access to the Brenner Pass, The word bruck comes from the German word Br cke which means "bridge." Innsbruck literally means "bridge over the Inn." The Austrians and the people of Innsbruck have gone to a lot of trouble to make Innsbruck tourist and kid friendly. When you walk down the streets of the old part of the town, you almost feel like it was created by Walt Disney himself And even if you can't go to Innsbruck, you can still enjoy going there vicariously through the pages of this book with award winning author, attorney and former K-12 teacher, Penelope Dyan, and John D. Weigand, professional photographer and videographer, Use the pages of this book to insert your own notes, photographs and tickets and things to make this book your very own; because it is only when you make a book your own that you can truly learn from its pages. Research, study and have fun; and if you go to Innsbruck see what you can recognize from this book That will make your trip there even more interesting and fun, because you will be on a mission of discovery.

Author: John D. Weigand, Penelope Dyan
ISBN-10: 1935630768
ISBN-13: 9781935630760
Publisher: Bellissima Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2011
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.10d
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