크룸펜도르프 암 뵈르터제‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪20‬개의 천연기념물

This beautifully situated and popular bathing pond is located south of Lake Wörthersee.

It lies there quietly, almost too quiet for a summer day. The Upper Spintik Pond, this artificially created body of water south of Lake Wörthersee, makes no noise – and that's precisely why you remember it. No sign that shouts, no hustle and bustle that intrudes. Instead: reflections in the calm, like inked watercolors of a landscape. A place where the word "romantic" doesn't sound kitsch, but rather of moss, patches of light, and a dip in warm water that shines like liquid green. Busloads rarely stray here. Instead: a narrow path shaded by old trees, a bench with a view that's almost too beautiful to just sit on. And if you dare – over there by the tree with the supporting branches and the rope – you can jump into the water like you did in your childhood. Without a lifeguard, but with plenty of happiness in your stomach. It's places like this that remind us that nature doesn't have to be staged to be effective. That peace is not the absence of noise, but the re-hearing of one's own. The Spintik Pond is not a postcard image—and that's precisely why you'd rather not recommend it to others. Instead, you'd rather keep it. As a secret. For later.

As idyllic as Carinthia's largest lake appears to the viewer from the slight hill, allowing one to enjoy the scenery, its origins are linked to a legend – one with a fatal outcome for the people of that time. A wealthy town is said to have once stood on the site of today's lake, but its inhabitants probably enjoyed a rather dissolute life. According to the story, the Wörthersee Mandl appeared to the wildly revelers – one version of the story places the event on Christmas Eve – as a warning. But since they refused to convert, the Wörthersee Mandl opened a small barrel he had brought with him, from which endless, unstoppable masses of water flowed – creating today's Wörthersee and swallowing the then town.

This tour along the Drau offers a beautiful and quite challenging combination between reservoir and river. The dreamy Rosental valley also presents itself charmingly by the water

From cream cakes from Bled to nativity figures, spices, bonnets and socks 🧦 you can buy a lot here

Huge and very beautiful

New square with town hall and delicious mulled wine

The rectangular shaped Neue Platz is the central city square of Klagenfurt, in the middle of which stands the Lindwurm as the city's landmark and heraldic animal. The square was created in the second half of the 16th century, when the estates had their new Renaissance city built south of the medieval one. They also commissioned the Lindwurm monument, which commemorates the beginnings of the city according to the founding legend: Ford of the “Klagen” = Klagenfurt. In 1593, the 124 hundredweight work made of chlorite slate is said to have been dragged from nearby Kreuzbergl to Neuer Platz by 300 young men dressed in white. In 1636 the sculpture was expanded into a lindworm fountain with a fountain trough, club-wielding Hercules and a Renaissance lattice. The well once supplied the city with drinking and fire-fighting water. For the 2008 European Football Championship, the square was redesigned according to the plans of the architect Boris Podrecca. Dark granite stone slabs form the elegant “carpet” for the lindworm fountain.