Bregenz Austria – The Cultural Capital of the World A grand statement you may think. But as we all know statements like this need to be quantified. I cannot think of another place that I know of that has such a high ratio of permanent arts establishments per person. Bregenz is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost federal state of Austria. The city is located on the eastern shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee), the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe at the 2014 figures has a population of 28,500 people. They have a world famous music festival in the Bregenz…
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Bregenz, Austria: A love affair with Lake Constance Looking at the map spread over her coffee table, sat cross legged in a yoga position she looked to her boyfriend who was busy looking at the football scores on his iPhone. The beautiful Constance said “we are going”. “Where” came the reply, “to a place called Bregenz on Lake Constance in Austria” she replied A suitable retort of wonderful male enthusiasm came back “Oh” and then sort of waking up from his slumber with “Why” Well Constance by this time, being in full female awaking retorted “because it says it’s beautiful,…