Feeding goats in the Hochreiter forest park in Eastern Styria | © Waldpark Hochreiter | Dagmar Frühauf Feeding goats in the Hochreiter forest park in Eastern Styria | © Waldpark Hochreiter | Dagmar Frühauf
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Destinations in the Eastern Styria

Enjoy a day with your loved ones in the green heart of Austria. Eastern Styria offers a wealth of choices for spending your day. In nature or in storied buildings, Austria’s garden has everything the heart desires.

Make memories that last a lifetime during a visit to the natural and cultural sites in Austria’s garden. From a magical underground lake to traces of the Romans to legendary places of power, you will find impressive sites in Eastern Styria.

You will find a variety of excursion destinations for the whole family in Eastern Styria as well. Kids can zoom downhill on the summer toboggan run, discover the woods and alpine pastures as a playground, and experience animal adventures at the petting zoo. How could Austria’s garden be otherwise? Artistically designed show gardens enchant visitors with Eastern Styria’s love of details. The various scenic routes, such as the Castle Road and the Roman Wine Road, are another special feature of Eastern Styria.

The most beautiful destinations in the Eastern Styria

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  • Großsteinbach

Chess flower- in the nature reserve Großsteinbach

Großsteinbach is the only region in Styria that is home to the chess flower
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  • Gleisdorf

Miró im Gemeindeamt Ludersdorf-Wilfersdorf

Winfried Lehmann dedicated his painted talcus sculpture to the Spanish-Catalan surrealist Joan Miró. He worked as a...
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  • Passail

Nickl's Aronia

At the Ponsold family in Hohenau near Passail you can learn a lot about the Urarlte Aronia Beeere, stroll through the...
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  • Pernegg

Frauenkriche Pernegg

The pilgrimage church "Heilige Maria" in Pernegg an der Mur is also called "Frauenkirche". The special feature is the...
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  • Grafendorf

Pilgrimage Church of St. Pancratens

Great vantage point over the East Styrian hills to Burgenland. A panoramic view also gives a view of the Wechsel massif...
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  • Breitenau am Hochlantsch

St. Erhard's Pilgrimage church

The pilgrimage church of St. Erhard is located in the nature park community of Breitenau am Hochlantsch. The church was...
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  • St. Jakob im Walde

horse farm the Leitner

Riding adventures for young and old await you at the "Das Leitner" riding center in St. Jakob im Walde.
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  • Puch bei Weiz

Listening pleasure lounger on the Elzer Roas

Here, where the "Biggest Apple" spans the road, you can enjoy a magnificent view of the Kulm, which was already settled...
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  • Hartberg

hARTberg walk - Hunde

Experience unique spray art in the East Styrian town of Hartberg!
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  • Hartberg

hARTberg walk - Saturno

Experience unique spray art in the East Styrian town of Hartberg!
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  • Fladnitz an der Teichalm

Sennerei Leitner

In Tulwitz, about 10 minutes by car from the Arzberg ripening tunnel, is the Almenland Dairy of the Leitner family....
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  • Strallegg

Parish church Strallegg

The Strallegg parish church is the heart of Strallegg. It was documented as a church in 1295 and was restored inside in...
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GenussCard

Starting with the first overnight stay at a GenussCard partner operation, you receive the GenussCard at no charge. It lets you visit the more than 250 GenussCard destinations free of charge, also on the day of arrival. These range from bathing on the Stubenbergsee to a tasting at the Almenland-Imkerei Kreiner or the Konditorei Schwindhackl, a ride on the summer toboggan run, a church tour in Pöllau or an old town tour in Hartberg.

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