In the city of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, in southern Austria

 "I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. -- Gustav Mahler

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(in southern Austria, near the border with Slovenia) Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, commonly known as Klagenfurt, is the capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria. The city, which is in the lower middle part of Austria (almost the same distance from Innsbruck in the west as it is from Vienna in the northeast), serves as the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and is home to the University of Klagenfurt, the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences, and the Gustav Mahler University of Music. Klagenfurt is on the Wörthersee lake (and on the Glan river). The city is surrounded by several forest covered hills and mountains, with heights of up to 1,000 meters. (To the south of the city is the Karawanken mountain range, which separates Carinthia the from bordering nations of Slovenia and Italy.)

+ Founded in the 12th century and chartered in 1279, Klagenfurt passed to the Habsburgs in 1335. Because 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 been the capital of the state of Kärnten (Carinthia) 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. The city is the site of the state museum, with folklore, Alpine, and natural-history annexes; the Diocesan Museum; and a state art gallery. Klagenfurt University was founded in 1970. The city is now a tourist and communications center; the public sector employs a large portion of the population.

+ Klagenfurt is quite an enjoyable, vibrant and sunny city with a compact Inner Stadt (City center); it offers easy access to lakeside villages on and around the beautiful Wörthersee, one of Europe’s largest and warmest Alpine lakes. At the city’s western limit is the wide green space of Europapark, along with Austria's largest bathing complex. It is a 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.

+ Shaped by Italian architects, Klagenfurt is sometimes called the "Renaissance Gem." Today, it features well-restored palaces, courtyards, and squares. One of them is New Square (Neuer Platz), with the Lindworm Fountain (shown here) in its center. At the local Benedictine farmers’ market, traders from all over Carinthia, the Italian Friuli region, and Slovenia gather to sell vegetables, cheeses, wines and herbs -- a declaration of people's love for the Alps-Adriatic region.