Old Town Centre with Stork Nests

A square and narrow lanes lined with colourful bourgeois houses from the 16th and 17th centuries, which earned Rust its place as part of the UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape of Lake Neusiedl. White storks nest on the chimneys — the town is known as the 'City of Storks' — and the birds are present from spring through the end of summer, before they set off on their migration. The courtyards behind the gates conceal wine presses and cellars.