Tourist attractions Spittal an der Drau

This cube-shaped castle, framed by corner turrets, is a rare example of Italian-style palaces on Austrian soil. The arcaded courtyard has three levels of galleries and a typical Renaissance style, with antique medallions, balustrades and door frame..

Millstatt, with the peaks of the Kreuzeck and Reisseck in the background, lies on the shore of Lake Millstatt, whose water temperature reaches 26°C in Summer. Its southern climate makes it a popular holiday resort. The abbey , whose museum gives a g..

The fully-preserved, partly-crenellated, 15C and early 16C ramparts surround the old town, which has retained its Medieval charm. It can be accessed via two gates: the Lower Gate (Untere Tor) with its fine indented gable and an 18C onion-shaped, do..

This 4 km-long cableway carries visitors, in two stages, to an altitude of 2 050 m, with a difference in height of 1 500 m. The upper station offers a fine panorama of Spittal, the surrounding mountains and Lake Millstatt.

The former capital of the Celtic Torisc tribe, then Roman city of Teurnia was found here. Excavations have revealed the existence of two residential terraces, a forum, baths and a temple devoted to the Healer god Grannus. In the 5C and 6C, the episco..

This vast square, lined with fine houses and closed by the two town gates is in the heart of Gmünd. The imposing New Castle, with wings, (near the Upper Gate) was built from 1651 to 1654 and opens onto a charming garden, the Porsche Park, whose entra..

Maria Himmelfahrt, the Church of the Assumption , is a late-Gothic building, inaugurated in 1513, but with a choir from 1399. Life-size sculptures of apostles flank the fine late-Baroque high altar. The church also boasts a Rococo pulpit and side al..

The only private Porsche museum in Europe is a reminder that in 1944 the engineer Ferdinand Porsche moved to Gmünd, establishing his famous company's workshop and Head Office here until 1950. The first car bearing the "Porsche" name, the le..

The imposing silhouette of the fortified castle, built between the 15C and 17C, also known as the Gmündner Schloss, dominates the little town. It was partly destroyed by an earthquake in 1690 and a fire in 1886, but has been restored and converted in..