Bad Ischl

Cultural capital 2024 - Bad Ischl
The European Union has been awarding the title of Capital of Culture since 1985 with the aim of highlighting the richness and diversity of European cultures and strengthening Europeans' feeling for the common European culture.
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, Minister of Culture Schallenberg announced the decision of the twelve-person jury (see link> bundeskanzleramt.gv.at), which had been preceded by a multi-year application process among 17 cities, at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna:
Bad Ischl and the Salzkammergut region, together with Estonia's second largest city Tartu and the Norwegian city of Bodo, will form the city trio in 2024. In Austria, Bad Ischl, together with 20 municipalities in the Salzkammergut, will become European Capital of Culture in 2024 and thus successor to Graz (2003) and Linz (2009).

Salt and water as DNA

Bad Ischl, east of Salzburg, has a long history. Emperor Franz Josef went there for the "summer retreat". And Sisi and Franz got engaged in the idyllic health resort. You can't blame them - the streets and alleys are really uniquely beautiful.

The town of Bad Ischl is an Austrian health resort with 14,070 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) on the Traun, in the center of the Salzkammergut in the southern part of Upper Austria. The city belongs to the Gmunden district and is located in the judicial district of Bad Ischl.