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Linz is the capital of Upper Austria and the country's third-largest city, situated on the Danube on the site of the Roman fortress of Lentia. The twentieth century was defined by heavy industry, while recent decades have been shaped by digital art: the city is home to the Ars Electronica Center and its festival, which earned Linz a place in UNESCO's Creative Cities Network as a City of Media Arts. Along the river, Lentos and the Ars Electronica Center stand facing each other; at the heart of the city are Hauptplatz and Mariendom, the largest church in Austria; and above the city rises Pöstlingberg, reached by the steepest adhesion railway in Europe. The surrounding area is home to the monastery of St. Florian with Bruckner's organ, and the Mauthausen Memorial.
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A museum of the future on the left bank of the Danube, dedicated to digital art, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology. The exhibition is fully interactive, and in the Deep Space 8K hall projections cover both the walls and the floor, so visitors literally walk through the imagery. The façade, made up of thousands of light panels, changes colour at night and forms part of the city's visual identity. Thanks to this centre and the festival of the same name, Linz is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Media Arts.
A museum of modern and contemporary art housed in a glass cube on the banks of the Danube, illuminated from within at night. The collection spans from classical modernism to contemporary Austrian art, and the gallery halls are among the brightest in the country, having been designed to maximise natural light. In front of the museum runs a riverside promenade, making it easy to combine a visit with a walk across the bridge to Ars Electronica.
The largest church in Austria, a Neo-Gothic structure from the second half of the 19th century with a capacity of around twenty thousand people. Its tower was deliberately built shorter than the tower of Vienna's Stephansdom, as the rules of the time forbade any church in the empire from surpassing it in height. Inside, stained-glass windows depict scenes from the city's history, including one portraying Linz itself.
An Augustinian monastery south of Linz, one of the largest Baroque complexes in Upper Austria, featuring a marble hall, imperial apartments, and a library.
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A cake made from ground hazelnuts or almonds and spices, with a redcurrant filling and a pastry lattice on top. The name is recorded as early as 1653, and the oldest surviving recipe comes from a handwritten cookery book of that era, making it the oldest known cake recipe in existence.
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