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"Salzburg hopes to host a magical celebration of winter sport, serving and strengthening the Olympic Movement by capturing the imagination of every guest and the world with a level of winter enchantment reminiscent of the benchmarks set by Lillehammer.

Although it is the smallest nation competing for the right to host the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Austria and Salzburg offer the Olympic Movement a number of significant benefits, each of which will contribute to the level of magic delivered:

- The storybook setting of a host city considered one of the most beautiful destinations in the world, built on an intimate scale in the dazzling architectural style of the 12th and 17th centuries and preserved to perfection in an Old Town recognised as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site..."

Source: Salzburg 2014, Candidature File section 1.2 - Vision of the Olympic Winter Games

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