Overview
Krems an der Donau is the eastern gateway of the UNESCO Wachau cultural landscape, the most celebrated stretch of the Austrian Danube. The medieval old town runs along the river beside the Steiner Tor city gate; the Kunstmeile around the Karikaturmuseum and Kunsthalle Krems makes the city Lower Austria's leading contemporary-art base; and the surrounding hillsides produce some of Austria's most prestigious Grüner Veltliner and Riesling wines.
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Krems an der Donau is the eastern entrance of the UNESCO Wachau cultural landscape, the most celebrated stretch of the Austrian Danube. The medieval old town runs along the river beside the Steiner Tor — the only surviving gate of the city's four — and the historically separate town of Stein an der Donau forms the western half of the modern municipality, linked by the Kunstmeile museum quarter. Krems is Lower Austria's contemporary-art capital, with the Kunsthalle Krems, the Karikaturmuseum and the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich within walking distance of one another, and the surrounding hillsides produce some of Austria's most prestigious white wines — Grüner Veltliner and Riesling — under the Wachau, Kremstal and Kamptal appellations. The Donau-Universität Krems gives the town an unusually young population for its size, and from here the Wachau opens westward toward Dürnstein, Spitz, Weißenkirchen and Melk.
The Steiner Tor — a 15th-century city gate with its baroque towers added in 1754 — is Krems's defining symbol and the visual marker of the old-town entrance. From there the Obere and Untere Landstraße run through a continuous strip of late-Gothic and Renaissance burgher houses, the Pfarrkirche St. Veit and the Bürgerspitalkirche; the Hoher Markt and the Pulverturm tower mark the upper edge.
Diplomatic missions in Krems an der Donau
1 embassy based in this city, grouped by region.
This overview comes from Visaja's worldwide missions database (visaja.com), checked against official government sources; for binding answers, the mission itself always has the final word.