A spectacular toll road over the Alps, 48 km with 36 hairpin bends, climbing to 2,504 m, built in the 1930s. At the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, look out over Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner (3,798 m), and the Pasterze, its longest glacier. Marmots are everywhere.
The road is open from about May to October, depending on snow. Start early in summer. The Edelweissspitze is the highest viewpoint. Allow a full day with stops.
Austria's highest waterfalls, plunging 380 m in three stages in the Hohe Tauern National Park.
The world's largest ice cave, running 42 km into the Tennengebirge mountains above Werfen, with its first kilometre filled with spectacular ice forma…
A village of old houses squeezed between a lake and steep mountains in the Salzkammergut, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most photograph…
One of the largest medieval castles in Europe, standing above Salzburg's baroque old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Innsbruck, capital of the Tyrol, is a city with mountains on its doorstep.
A wooded hill in the middle of Graz, Austria's second city, crowned by the Clock Tower (Uhrturm), the symbol of the city.
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