In the city of Klagenfurt, southern Austria

 "In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a saber with charm." -- Mark Twain

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(in southern Austria, near the border with Slovenia) Klagenfurt, the capital city of the Kärnten Bundesland (federal state), lies along the Glan River in a basin east of Wörther Lake and north of the Karawanken Mountains. Founded in the 12th century and chartered in 1279, it passed to the Habsburgs in 1335. As it was largely destroyed in a fire in 1514, most of its notable buildings date from the 16th century and have lines influenced by Italian architects, who had been called in to build fortifications. The city has served as the capital of Kärnten since 1518, and the seat of the prince-bishops of Gurk since 1787. Notable landmarks are the Dragon Fountain in the New Square, the 17th-century Town Hall, the Cathedral, the parish church, and the Landhaus, where the Diet of Kärnten still sits.

+ Klagenfurt is the site of the state museum, with folklore, Alpine, and natural-history annexes (the Diocesan Museum, and a state art gallery). The city is a communications and tourist center, has metal, food, and chemical industries, and manufactures plastic materials, leather goods, tobacco, wood products, and electrical apparatus. (The public sector employs a considerable portion of the city's population.)

+ Klagenfurt is an enjoyable, vibrant, and sunny city with a compact Inner Stadt (city center), offering ready access to lakeside villages on and around the beautiful Wörthersee (Wörther Lake). At the city’s western limit is the wide green space of Europapark, along with Austria's largest bathing complex. It is a surprisingly lively place, both as a playground for partiers down at the lido in Summer, and as a university town the rest of the year. Transport links also make it the best base for exploring the whole of Carinthia (Kärnten), the southernmost Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps.

+ Klagenfurt, the sixth-largest city in the country, is the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and home to the University of Klagenfurt, the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences, and the Gustav Mahler University of Music. The city is in the lower middle part of Austria, nearly the same distance from Innsbruck (in the west) as it is from Vienna (in the northeast).

+ Klagenfurt is elevated 446 meters above sea level and covers an area of around 120 square kilometers (~46 square miles). It is located on both the lake Wörthersee and the Glan river. The city is surrounded by several forest covered hills and mountains, with heights of up to 1,000 meters (for example Ulrichsberg). To the south of the city is the Karawanken mountain range, which separates Carinthia from the bordering nations of Slovenia and Italy.