Discover Austria

Blick aufs Kräuterwirtshaus Strumerhof © Familie Holzer

Donauwirtinnen

The propriertors place special emphasis on offering guests a sustainable dining experience in lovingly furnished surroundings.

The Floh Inn

Josef Floh, head chef and owner of the Floh in Langenlebarn an der Donau has adopted this strategy and worked his way right into the top category of restaurants in Austria.

Fish Restaurant Sicher

If you’re looking for the finest in fish, you’re sure to find it at Sicher. Char and trout are served up fresh here, and the homemade char caviar is a delicacy known far and wide.

Gut Oggau

Extraordinary atmosphere, high-end biodynamic wines and a small, but delicious Heuriger-style kitchen: Gut Oggau has conquered the hearts and palates of Austrian connoisseurs with this rich combination, and has even made it into a museum in San Francisco!

Kaunertal nature conservation area

The Kaunertal valley in the Ötztals Alps is dominated by the high mountains. Here stringent environmental regulations have preserved a natural landscape that is guaranteed to take your breath away.

Hohe Tauern National Park

The vastest National Park in Central Europe covers three federal provinces: Carinthia, Tirol and Salzburger Land.

Trail riding in the Kalkalpen National Park

The Kalkalpen National Park is one of Austria’s most mysterious landscapes. This secluded mountain and forest area can be best experienced on horseback.

Ernstbrunn Game Park

Wolves at only 50 kilometres from Vienna! Austria’s only wolf research centre is located at the Ernstbrunn Game Park, where this animal species can be excellently watched in the wild

Healing power of Nature

The Nock mountains in Carinthia are home to a unique medical plant. Its heady scent and exceptional powers can be felt by hikers exploring the mountains

alpannonia® – hiking without borders

From the sub-alpine slopes of the Semmering region to the Pannonian plain and Hungary: the alpannonia® hiking route. Limitless hiking pleasure, guaranteed

Canoeing on the river Drau

It is the ideal means for discovering one of Austria’s last natural paradises: Carinthia’s upper Drau valley

St. Martins Therme & Lodge

In the Burgenland’s Seewinkel region, where the last hills of the mighty Alps melt gently into the steppe-like plains of Pannonia, one finds the St. Martins Spa & Lodge – an oasis for wellness fans and wildlife friends alike

Erich Stekovics

In search of lost tastes, Erich Stekovics has collected tomato seeds from around the whole world. Nowadays, he has more than 3,200 old kinds growing on his fields near Lake Neusiedl.

Galtür Alpinarium

The combination of protective walls and exhibition rooms makes the Galtür alpinarium and its architecture unique in Europe today.

Klangspuren

Whether you're foraging for mushrooms together with contemporary composers or you’re on the traditional "pilgrimage" that takes you to the different venues over the course of one day, the festival of contemporary music in September has unusual twists and turns.

Styriarte

Summer after summer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt invites people to styriarte in Graz. “Old masters, newly interpreted” is the motto of the festival.

Benedictine Abbey of Admont

A jewel of Baroque meets contemporary art. 70,000 restored books, ceiling frescoes and sculptures in the magnificent library hall face works by Erwin Wurm, Rudi Molacek and Lois Renner

Schubertiade

For over 25 years, Schubertiade has been mastering the seemingly impossible: maintaining intimacy and being the world’s most important Schubert festival at the same time

berge.hören

Hiking with musicians to mountain huts, getting to know their worlds of sound and discovering a source of inspiration – that’s what "berge.hören” in Vorarlberg's Brandner Valley is all about.

Walser Autumn

The Walser Autumn Festival calls itself the “The steepest festival deep in the mountains”. And in fact, you can expect pretty much anything at the festival in the biosphere park in the Great Walser Valley.

Saalfelden International Jazz Festival

The mountain range of the Steinerne Meer, lush green meadows and a lake form the backdrop for Europe’s most important festival for contemporary jazz.

Gustav Klimt Centre

In Kammer am Attersee, where Gustav Klimt spent his summer holidays, you can now find the Gustav Klimt Centre and an inspiring Klimt-themed path along the picturesque banks of Lake Atter

Wellenklänge

Lunz Lake with its crystal clear water and the forests and mountains of the Alpine foothills form the backdrop for a July festival which has committed to the crossover of all style and genres boundaries.

Grafenegg Music Festival

The interaction of culinary delights, the historic castle, landscaped and modern architecture and a world-class range of concerts make the Grafenegg Music Festival a delight for all the senses.

Museum of the Nötsch Circle

Art and province - two terms that exclude each other? Far from it! The history of Austrian visual arts was largely written in the village-like Nötsch in Carinthia.

Raiding Liszt Festival

Prodigy, virtuoso pianist, bon vivant and Abbé, citizen of the world and self-proclaimed "gypsy musician". Franz Liszt's music is also as versatile and contradictory as its creator.

St. Margarethen Opera Festival

Bizarre rock formations at Europe's largest natural stage form the stunning backdrop for opulent opera productions every year

Hotel Schwanen Bizau

Old and new, traditional and modern – barely any other region places such emphasis on the interplay of contrasts in architecture as the Bregenzerwald forest region. In Hotel Schwanen in Bizau they go one step further – here the gourmet kitchen prepares medieval recipes.

Naturhotel Chesa Valisa

Here everything is 100% environmentally friendly, with clean air, a hygenic altitude, plenty of nature and an optional program of indulgence into the bargain.

Posthotel

This hideaway in the Tyrolean mountains sees itself as an exclusive retreat for adults – for guests 14 and upwards – who want to enjoy an intimate romantic break or a relaxing time-out in an exquisite and multi-award winning wellness resort.

Gradonna Mountain Resort, Chalets & Hotel

Wooden tiles on the roof, luxurious comfort beneath the ceiling. Skiing pleasure and intensive recuperation. A cosmopolitan feel together with a local way of life: the Gradonna Resort in Kals (East Tyrol) unites many ways of life in one, and is located just beside the ski run at the foot of the Großglockner mountain.

Lanserhof

Focus on better health with an individually customized program. The future of lasting well-being can be found in Tyrol.

PuresLeben

Enjoy the luxury of the simple life; live well, eat and drink well and take in the surroundings. A guide to slowing down.

Rogner Bad Blumau

The Rogner Bad in Blumau is far more than just a thermal spring. Designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the establishment, which is made up of healing springs, a sauna area, hotel and garden, sees itself as a work of art.

Naturhotel Waldklause

When a hotel is chosen three times in a row as “the most beautiful eco-hotel in Europe” by an expert jury from German travel magazine ‘Geo Saison’, it must be something special. And the Waldklause is!

Seehof Mondsee

At one of the most beautiful coves on Lake Mondsee, you’ll find the five-star hotel with its private 300-metre beach, award-winning gourmet restaurant and particularly peaceful park. It’s an oasis of tranquillity with a diverse range of leisure activities on offer.

Ebners Waldhof am See

The fact that it is ideally located on Lake Fuschl, is nearby to the festival city of Salzburg, has the largest private spa in the Salzkammergut and excellent cuisine makes the Waldhof a worthwhile destination at any time of the year.

Baumhotel

Fancy holidaying at lofty heights? Live in a tree house on the longest treetop path in Europe. The scent of wood will follow you for your entire stay – your clothes, backpack and skin will all smell like forest by the end of your first day.

Almdorf Seinerzeit

Holidays in a mountain hut? Behind the authentic Alpine ambience of the Almdorf Seinerzeit, perched high up in Carinthia’s Nockberge, guests encounter a great deal of privacy and even more luxury.

Forsthofalm

The Alpine pastures, the quiet and a hint of luxury; a holiday at the 4-star Forsthofalm is a sensual experience. And an unusual one at that. The hotel is contructed entirely out of wood.