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Innsbruck 



ANY sketch of the Tyrol, however slight, 

 that did not contain some few words with 

 regard to its capital, would be imperfect. 



Probably nowhere throughout the world can a 

 town of equal importance be found amid surround- 

 ings of such majestic grandeur. It seems as if 

 Nature herself had striven to form an idyllic spot 

 upon which to build it ! 



Resting in a green valley, on the banks of the 

 tumbling Inn, and hemmed in on every hand by 

 majestic mountains, Innsbruck stands unique. 

 From the very streets superb views of snow-clad 

 mountain ranges open out at every turn. 



Easily accessible as it is, being on the two main 

 lines of railway the Brenner and the Arlberg 

 it is, of course, over-run with tourists. But here, 

 at least, one can forget "the madding crowd" in 

 the beauty of the scenery. In Innsbruck Nature 

 reigns supreme : there is no getting away from her 

 one cannot ignore her. Maria Theresienstrasse 

 itself, the Bond Street of the Tyrolean metropolis, 



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