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The inclusion of an arresting object within a small garden treasures is an excellent way of detracting the eye from adjacent buildings and into the garden treasures itself. The focal point in this garden treasures is an ornate wrought-iron seat, which leads the eye down the garden treasures. The rather austere rectangular lawn is surrounded by a mass of pretty, shrubby little plants, which together help to soften the overall look of the garden treasures.

Graz comes into the art heritage of Austria with its fine collections in the Joanneum. Among special artists who have left much to Austria, keep an open eye for Michael Pacher, a Tyrolean painter and wood carver who did marvelous altars for many churches. One of his best is in the village church of little St. Wolfgang. Among masterpieces of baroque decoration, don't overlook the Abbey Library in Admont. Its manuscript treasures would warrant a visit if there were no notable art and its exuberance of baroque in architecture, sculpture and ceiling paintings would draw you if there were no treasures of script or print.

Among museums, don't miss the National Archeological Museum and the Benaki Museum, this latter containing one of the world's great personal collections of assorted treasures accumulated by an intelligent connoisseur. For lofty viewpoints, don't fail to climb the Hill of Philopappos, not far from the Acropolis, and Mt. Lycabettus, with the most rewarding view of all. For a sight that is movingly Greek, walk down Herodes Atticus Street, on the far side of the National garden treasures, until you reach the modest Royal Palace, on your left.