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| About our town - Outings and Day Trips |
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Here are a few suggestions for outings and daytrips. All destinations are within a 100km radius of Dürnstein.
Combine your trip with a travel trough the Wachau:
www.wachauerbahn.at
Aggstein: Ruined Castle; old hammer mill in the village of Aggstein (run by the Pehn Family), open Sat, Sun
Artstetten: Castle and museum ("From Mayerling to Sarajevo")
Armschlag: Poppy-seed village, poppy-seed educational trail, poppy-seed products from "Mohn-Wirt"
Alt-Nagelberg: Glassblowing shop (guided tour, exhibition, shop)
Gars: Willi Dungl Bio Center (health & fitness resort), local museum, memorial to operetta composer Franz von Suppé, fortress ruins with opera festival in July/August
Greillenstein: Castle Museum, historic dwarf collection
Gmünd: Glass Museum, historic city square, Mohnzelten steam trains running on a narrow-gauge railway through the Waldviertel from Gmünd via Weitra to Gross Gerungs (May to October on Sat, Sun and holidays)
Gobelsburg: Castle (exhibitions)
Grein: Oldest theater in Austria, castle, historic town centre, Biedermeier coffeehouse
Göttweig: Benedictine abbey, exhibition, wonderful views of the Danube Valley
Grafenegg: Neo-Gothic castle; concerts and exhibitions
Gaming: Former Carthusian monastery; concerts; Ötscherland Express to Lunz/See
Herzogenburg: Baroque abbey (exhibition)
Heidenreichstein: Moated castle, moor and peat museum, Vintage train "Wackelstein Express" to Altnagelberg
Kirchberg/Pielach: Model railway exhibition- panoramic model of Mariazell Railway
Klosterneuburg: Augustinian abbey (famous Verdun altarpiece/blue enamel plaques)
Krems: Historic city center, wine museum in the former Dominican monastery, Kunst.Halle.Krems (art museum), caricature museum
Langenlois: Biggest wine producing town in Austria
Schloß (Castle) Haindorf: Operetta festival in summer
Lilienfeld: One of the most beautiful romanesque Cistercian abbeys; chair lift up to Muckenkogel, hiking area
Lunz/See: Amon House, lake (Lunzer See) with boat rental; Schafkäs Express (Ewe's Milk Cheese Express) from Lunz to Waidhofen/Ybbs
Maria Taferl: Place of pilgrimage, lookout point (view extending all the way to the Ötscher mountain), school museum
Maria Zell: Most famous pilgrimage centre in Austria, notable basilica, cable cars to Bürgeralpe (open-air lumberjack museum), most beautiful narrow-gauge railway in Austria (from Maria Zell to St. Pölten), lake with boat rental
Melk: Famous Benedictine baroque abbey
Neu-Nagelberg: Glass studio and Forest Glass House of Kurt and Roland Zalto: hand-crafted engraved glass, glass painting and lead crystal. Phone: +43-2859-7237. Blockheide: heath with famous balancing rocks of primeval granite
Ottenstein: Reservoir (14 km), swimming, boating
Pöchlarn: Birthplace of painter Oskar Kokoschka
Rosenau: Castle, Masonic museum
Rosenburg: Daily falconry demonstrations in tilt yard (April to Oct.: 11 am and 3 pm) For children: Fairytale World in Rosenburg castle.
Retz: Austria's largest historic wine cellar, windmill, historic town center
Rapottenstein: Fortress with five forecourts
Schallaburg: Renaissance castle with terracotta reliefs (coats of arms, etc.) in the courtyard, exhibitions
Seitenstetten: Benedictine Abbey
Spitz: Danube shipping museum, ruins of Hinterhaus Fortress, Jauerling (960m), nature park, lookout tower
St. Pölten: Capital city of Lower Austria, cathedral, historic baroque city centre
Tulln: Egon Schiele Museum
Traismauer: Prehistoric history museum in castle; highly recommended for the kids: the Dinosaur Park
Waidhofen/Thaya: Museum with general store, tailor & cobbler workshops; beautiful historic town center
Waidhofen/Ybbs: Charming town centre, "city of towers", large castle
Weißenkirchen/Wachau: Teisenhofer-Hof housing the Wachau Museum and Fairytale World
Weitra: Oldest brewing town in Austria, golf course, interesting sgraffiti facades, Fürstenberg castle
Ybbsitz: Town in the "Eisen-Wurzen" area (early iron manufacturing), hammer mill
Zwettl: Medieval town centre, Cistercian monastery
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