Summer is here, and the season of music festivals is in full swing. While some of the most popular ones have long been sold ...

Swimmers have jumped back into a Berlin waterway where swimming was banned a century ago because its pollution could make ...

The Danube goes right across Europe ... and that’s where the whole story of New York began with the Dutch. We gave them an island there in the Banda Islands in Indonesia and they gave us ...

A new waterfront is emerging on Danube Island at Pier 22, lido-style, with ladders for swimming and picnic spots for families. In the summer everyone makes for the water like ducks, diving from ...

Strauss, wielding his violin, conducted favorites such as “The Blue Danube.” With his tall stature ... Central Cemetery to the festive Danube Island Festival, and even sky-high at an Open ...

The city’s New Danube flood control channel and artificial Danube Island, built in the 1970s, also helped prevent its main river from overflowing.

Vienna, however, was largely shielded from the worst of the disaster thanks to the Danube Island flood protection project. Completed in 1987, the artificial island runs 21 kilometres along the river, ...

Perhaps the city's greatest green asset is the Danube Island, which stands as a 21 km manmade island between the banks of the Danube River. Originally built to prevent flooding within the city, it now ...

Perhaps the city's greatest green asset is the Danube Island, which stands as a 21 km manmade island between the banks of the Danube River. Originally built to prevent flooding within the city ...

Some of the visitors to the Danube Island Festival applauded. Although the organizer had turned off the sound for the group on Saturday evening, this would not stop the climate crisis, as can be ...

As Europe's largest open-air festival with free admission, the Danube Island Festival has been attracting visitors to Vienna's Danube Island for over four decades. From 20 to 22 June 2025 ...