Klagenfurt, the provincial capital of Carinthia in Austria, is located on the east shore of the alpine lake Wörthersee. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service […]
Teurnia a Metropolitan Seat in Carinthia
Visitors, who come the first time to the wooded hills of St. Peter in Wood, a few kilometers west of Spital at the Drava in Austria, would not suspect that people settled here already in the urnfield culture here. Later, the Celts and the Romans built one of the largest cities of Noricum, Teurnia with […]
Grossglockner High Alpine Road – Austria
The Grossglockner High Alpine Road, built in the 30s, connects the provinces of Salzburg and Carinthia. This most beautiful panoramic road in Austria is splendidly constructed and can be used only in summer. Roman finds and reports show that an alpine pass probably existed here already since 1600 BC. At the Edelweiss Peak with 8,435 […]
Pasterze the largest glacier in Austria
On the Carinthian side of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road is the Pasterze, Austria’s largest glacier; the melt water feeds the power station Kaprun. The global warming has left its traces on the 5.59234 miles long glacier. Since its peak in 1856, the glacier has lost both area and thickness of more than half. Our […]
Porsche Car Museum – Austria
The Porsche Car Museum founded by Helmut Pfeifhofer has found a home in the manufacturing plant of the first Porsche in Gmünd in Austria. Due to the threatening bomb raids, Ferdinand Porsche moved his headquarters from 1944 to 1950 to Gmünd. His son Ferry Porsche built the 356 Coupé and the Porsche 356 No. 1 […]