VIENNA - Appreciate the beauty of landscapes, stories and traditions; regenerate in the green of parks, mountains and gardens; customize your holiday among the many new proposals: Austria invites you to travel safely after the difficult months of health emergency with advantageous offers, new renovations, sustainable tourism projects and proposals for sports and outdoor experiences, in parks and along the many paths. Hikers in particular can follow new routes such as the Hohe Tauern Panorama Trail, which offers magnificent views over the country's highest mountains to the National Park of the same name. Those who love cycling have a huge choice of itineraries, equipped areas and ad hoc services, starting with Salzburg and Carinthia,regions suitable for those traveling with the whole family. The break period has generated many creative ideas and suggestions for a more conscious and sustainable tourism. Starting from the capital Vienna where The Wood hotel was born, a completely wooden and eco-sustainable hotel, and Gilbert, a hotel redesigned as a green oasis, where you can switch off. Great space is given to psychophysical well-being with the creation of green areas and the possibility of regenerating oneself between the mountains and nature.Great space is given to psychophysical well-being with the creation of green areas and the possibility of regenerating oneself between the mountains and nature.Great space is given to psychophysical well-being with the creation of green areas and the possibility of regenerating oneself between the mountains and nature.
There are many proposals, such as the village-hotel of Morgenfurt with structures made of stone, wood and earth dug into the grassy slopes; or the Hotel Klosterbräu in Seefeld, famous for its wellness center to which a large garden with fruit trees, vegetable gardens, aromatic herbs and a cultivation of hops for the production of beer has been added. Among the experiences that deserve to be discovered, we highlight the "castle route" in Tyrol, a new tourist route that winds for over 50 kilometers along the fortresses of Landeck, Biedenegg and Wiesberg and the ancient ruins of Kronburg; the "song trail" in the Wildschonau valley in the Kitzbuhel Alps, with 12 stations to discover guided by your smartphone and QR code. Gravel biking is in the province of Salzburg,adrenaline experience that is practiced with bicycles equipped with studded tires for dirt roads.
On the border with Carinthia, the "Milky Way" winds its way, a project designed to discover alpine dairy farms with paths and structures that seem to reproduce the stars of the sky. Of course, there is no shortage of artistic, musical and gastronomic proposals, especially in Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck. These include the exhibition "The women of the Wiener Werkstätte" at the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts on women's crafts between 1903 and 1932; the Salzburg festival which resumes the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of last year, and Carinthia, called the first "slow food travel" destination.
Furthermore, this year, the 6 Austrian national parks turn 50 years old and show themselves in all their majesty and beauty with the constant commitment to nature and biodiversity. The Hohe Tauern National Park is the oldest and largest protected area in Austria; its habitat of enormous biodiversity is a triumph of the alpine landscape with 342 glaciers and the wilderness area of the Sulzbach valleys. The Donau-Auen National Park, between Vienna and Bratislava, is the natural place where the Danube flows and where the protected area ensures the survival of numerous endangered wildlife species. The Gesäuse National Park is characterized by the rapids of the River Enns and the limestone mountains of the Reichenstein, Buchstein and Hochtor groups, an exceptional natural heritage.Kalkalpen National Park is home to Austria's largest wild forest along hidden gorges and pristine mountain streams; the Neusiedler See-Seewinkel National Park protects a border area on the eastern edge of the Alps and the western edge of the Pannonian lowland of enormous biodiversity for thousands of birds.
Finally, there is the Thayatal National Park which houses one of the most beautiful and species-rich river landscapes in Europe; and it is in particular the refuge of the wild cat. For more information and travel arrangements: austria.info/en.
