Points of interest

The Mozartplatz is a rectangular square, very much a landmark in its own right in the historic center of the city of Salzburg, methodically constructed by demolition of various merchant houses under Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau in 1588.

Baroque Authority – Baroque Glory 15,000 magnificent square metres – 2,000 stunning exhibits – 1,300 moving years

Glasenbachklamm, the canyon-like valley formed by the <\/b>Klausbach, is located right at the gateway to Salzburg City.

Markus Sittikus von Hohenems was elected as Salzburg’s prince archbishop in 1612. From 1613 to 1615, he built an Italian-style villa suburbana outside the Salzburg city gates, incorporating a late Gothic stately home.

Around  800 animals - 140 species - live on the 14-hectare zoo grounds in spacious, open enclosures as close as possible to their natural habitat. Zoo visitors experience unique insights into the lives led by lions, jaguars, bears and  more.

For more than 500 years, the famous beer from Kaltenhausen has been poured within these old walls.

One of the most important museums of Celtic culture.

At the Silent Night Museum in Hallein, original manuscripts and documents detail the creation and dissemination of the world’s most famous Christmas song, “Silent Night! Holy Night!”

A trip through the centuries. The Bad Dürrnberg Salt Mine is an exciting excursion destination in the salt town of Hallein.

It is a short valley, but one abundant in water, with the Fischbach flowing through it and finally emptying into the River Salzach.

The Salzachöfen, also known as the Salzachklamm, is a gorge that has been created as the Salzach river has cut its way through the northern Limestone Alps between the Hagen- and Tennengebirge mountains.

The world’s biggest ice cave, natural monument.

Hohenwerfen Castle is a medieval fortress, located in the Pongau district amid the northern Limestone Alps, and is comparable in its construction to Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg, which was built in roughly the same years.

The powerful rushing of the waterfall, the mossy stones in a lush green, an atmosphere full of legends, and rays of sun, which make rainbows appear in the fine mists of water.

The Schwarzach Water Park is a nice excursion tip for the whole family and is close to the Alpe Adria cycle path and the Tauern cycle path.

The Dorfgastein Water Park is a highly-recommended destination for families.

The Klammstein Castle is a wonderful excursion tip for the whole family.

Elemental Time in the Alpine Spa Gastein.

The Gastein swimming lake enjoys a sunny setting in Gastein Valley between Bad Gastein and Bad Hofgastein.

The Gastein Museum offers informative and entertaining insights into the history of this spa town.

This spa offers recreation & fun.

Awaiting you is the Salzstadl Museum

DISCOVER INVISIBLE  WONDERS!

Look into an unknown world: hidden creatures, ancient organisms, alien shapes and surprising  beauty.

Heading South (Salzburg - Grado): At the end of the Gastein Valley, you take the railway at the Tauern motorail (Böckstein – Mallnitz) to the south side of the main Alps ridge. This train service usually runs hourly and takes 11 minutes. Bicycles can be taken along.

Heading north (Grado - Salzburg): From Mallnitz you take the railway at the Tauern motorail (Mallnitz - Böckstein) to the north side of the main Alps ridge. This train service usually runs hourly and takes 11 minutes. Bicycles can be taken along.

Groppensteinschlucht is a wonderful, adventurous gorge along the Mallnitzbach in Carinthia. The entrance to the gorge is located in Raufen/Räuflach Obervellach. The gorge is signposted from the road.

Imaginatively conceived barbican, added in ca. 1900 to Oberfalkenstein Castle, which stands 200 meters further up (today a ruin).

The Kreuzeckbahn cable car will take you on a romantic ride lasting 11 minutes up to the Rosswiese,  the ca. 1,200 m-high mountain station of the lift.

Once there, one of the  most beautiful mountain hiking areas in the Alps is awaiting you: the Kreuzeck group, with one of the most striking lookout mountains of the Tauern region, the Salzkofel (2,498 m).

The hill of St. Peter in Holz (4 km west of Spittal/Drau) has been inhabited since the 12th century B.C. As of ca. 50 A.D., the older Celtic settlement was absorbed into the larger Roman town.

The Museum for Folk Culture is a privately administrated museum, run by a registered association, the "Bezirksheimatmuseum Spittal/Drau e.V.".

Schloss Porcia in Spittal an der Drau in Upper Carinthia / Austria is a Renaissance castle built in the 16th century in the style of Italian palazzo, and is sometimes described as "the most beautiful Renaissance building north of the Alps".

The sports&adventure pool in Spittal an der Drau

Sensational finds from the Early Middle Ages led to the foundation of the Carantana Molzbichl Museum.

Located directly on Drau Bike Route R 1 is the Lansach – Feffernitz ferry, which runs in the summer months across the Drau between the market towns of Weissenstein and Paternion.

MS LANDSKRON

Built 1984 - first bow-lander ship in Austria

The Stadtpfarrturm in Villach measures 94 meters, making it the tallest church tower in Carinthia.

The city of Villach is famous for its vibrant lifestyle: its Fasching festivities and the Villach Fair attest to that fact.

In the spa community of Villach, Austria’s most modern spa and wellness temple is being created!

The construction for the new KÄRNTEN SPA started in June 2010. After its completion in the summer of 2012, it will leave no wish unfulfilled here in Villach.

Simon Wallner in England had met the production of crushing by "pouring down the hill".

The Gothic frescoes inside the church 800th champion Thomas created from Villach, an artistic personality of the 15th C.

Tarvisio is one of Friuli Venezia Giulia's most important ski areas and mountain resorts. Surrounded by the Julian Alps and rich in wide valleys and woods - the Tarvisio Forest, with its 24,000 hectares, is Italy's largest State forest.

The Fusine Lakes' basin is one of the most beautiful place of the region.

The Predil lake (or Raibl lake) is located few kilometres far from Travisio, in an ancient glacial basin.

The water is clear and cold, of an intense green-blue colour; in an island, wreck of a morainic area, partly destroyed, partly submerge, create an evocative landscape.

To enjoy an unparalleled view of the whole chain of the Julian Alps, nothing is like reaching the mystic Sanctuary of the Madonna of Lussari - surrounded by a tiny hamlet with the same name - taking the enthralling Path of the Pilgrim winding through the woods of the Tarvisio Forest.

The ethnographic museum of Malborghetto is located in the 17th century Palazzo Veneziano, one of the most interesting buildings in Val Canale for its history and architecture.

Steep rugged rock walls and Norway spruce, black pine and larch woods.

Pontebba, situated in the Tarvisio mountain area, is the main town of Valcanale, inhabited already in the Roman age.

The Museum of the Territory in Dogna is divided into three sections: the paleontological section, the historical section and the ethnographic section.

The municipality of Dogna is situated at the entrance to the homonymous valley, dominated by the Montasio mountain range.

The Sella Nevea Adventure Park, built in October of 2005 in a wood of 8,000 sqm near the forecourt of the Canin Cableway, was officially opened on Saturday 20th May 2006.

Pleasant village along the river Fella, placed just in front of the valley "Val Raccolana", it have always had a strategic role of control on the roads towards the valley "Canal del Ferro".

Resia is situated in a magical and secluded valley, where a community of Slav origin lives, that preserves an ancient language and ancient traditions, unique in the context of Slavic speaking communities.

A richness of biodiversity …

For a long time the economic activity of Canal del Ferro has been influenced by the presence of a mine for the extraction of bituminous schist in the upper part of the valley of the Resartico stream, to which now the Exhibition of the Mine of the Resartico Stream is dedicated.

Moggio Udinese is a small town in Val Canale that, in spite of the 1976 earthquake, has preserved its charm.

In Moggio Alto you will reach the abbey, rich in history.

Crossed by the Alba Stream and by the Simon Stream, it features spectacular rocky ridges, waterfalls, crystal-clear streams and wild woods.

The permanent exhibition "Tiere Motus. History of an earthquake and of its people" is housed on the first floor of sixteenth-century Palazzo Orgnani-Martina, situated in Venzone's town centre.

Medieval charm

Friuli Venezia Giulia, too, has its mummies!

The presbytery of Gemona del Friuli dating back to 1360 today holds the new Parish Museum as well as the Cathedral Treasury and the historical parish Archive where the oldest known baptism records (dating back to 1379) are kept.

Cycling amidst colourful butterflies.

The Cavazzo lake is the widest natural lake of Friuli Venezia Giulia and wash with its waters the territory of three municipalities, Cavazzo Carnico, Bordano and Trasaghis.

The museum Palazzo Elti of Gemona exhibits paintings and sculpture of different ages and of remarkable historical quality.

Frescoes, evidence of the 1976 earthquake.

Trasaghis is part of the three municipalities which surround the lake, already of Cavazzo, and renamed "Lago dei Tre Comuni - The lake of the Three Municipalities.

Once inhabited by Celtic populations, Osoppo acquired importance at the time of the foundation of Aquileia, becoming a Roman castrum.

Average visit time 1 hour.

Treppo Grande lies among gentle morainic hills, created 9000 years ago by the accumulation of debris deposited by glaciers and then shaped by the joint action of atmospheric agents and waterways.

Tricesimo is situated at the feet of the first morainic hills, formed by the ancient glacier of the river Tagliamento.

Certainly the origins of Tavagnacco are demonstrated from the Roman epoch. The place name reminds to the Latin proper name "Tabianus" or "Octavianus", who was probably the owner of the holding -, including the Celtic suffix "aco".

The capital of Friuli with its friendly squares, Tiepolo masterpieces and traditional osterias.

Casa Cavazzini, in the centre of Udine, is a sixteenth-century complex renovated with the purpose of transforming it into a new cultural venue for the city of Udine.

The Oratory of Purity is situated on the southern side of Udine Cathedral.

The cathedral museum of Udine, dedicated to the Patriarch Blessed Bertrand from Saint Geniès, is hosted in the 14th century chapels of Saint Nicholas and Corpus Christ and in the adjacent baptistery.

Udine Cathedral is the city's most important and imposing church. It is situated in the charming Piazza Duomo, a few steps from the main streets of Udine's city centre.

Valvason Morpurgo Palace of Udine hosts a section of the Gallery of Modern Art, dedicated to the theme of architectural design in Friuli.

Friuli's Ethnographic Museum - New Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions is situated in the historic Palazzo Giacomelli in Udine, in the picturesque and lively Borgo Grazzano.