On the Benedikt-Route through Styria

The first day takes us through the beautiful landscape of the Pyhrgas to the Gesäuse, Austria's youngest national park. Admont, with its world-famous monastery and the worthwhile monastery library, is our first stopover. Via the Kaiserau, we first reach Trieben and continue via the Kettentörl and the Ingeringsee to Seckau.

From Seckau, we continue over the Tremmelberg to Knittelfeld and on to Maria Buch-Feistritz, with its beautiful pilgrimage church in the middle of the Mur valley. From the Styrian Murtal, we change to the Carinthian Lavanttal. Through beautiful forest paths we reach the small village of Obdach and continue over the Obdacher Sattel into the Lavanttal.

Das Benediktinerstift Admont, das älteste bestehende Kloster in der Steiermark, beherbergt ein einmaliges Juwel, die weltgrößte Klosterbibliothek, die seit Jahrhunderten Generationen an Besuchern in ihrem Bann zieht. 2003 etablierte sich das Stift zudem in der Museumslandschaft indem es eines der größten und kontrastreichsten Privatmuseen Österreichs eröffnete. Unter einem Dach vereint finden sich nun Kunst vom Mittelalter bis hin zu einem Naturhistorischen Museum und nichts desto trotz eines Gegenwartskunstbereichs.

Accessible by train and bus.

Detailed information about arriving by ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) can be found at www.oebb.at or on the Verbundlinie Steiermark website www.busbahnbim.at

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