Hiking route Loretto trail (Loretto-Weg) - Touren-Impression #1 | © Bad Waltersdorf Hiking route Loretto trail (Loretto-Weg) - Touren-Impression #1 | © Bad Waltersdorf

Loretto trail (Loretto-Weg)

A beautiful hiking trail that leads to the Loretto Chapel and back to St. Magdalena.
Starting point of the hiking tour is the center of St. Magdalena. The 4.6 km long hike leads to the small Loretto Chapel in St. Johann in der Haide.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
November
December

The tour in numbers

medium
Level of difficulty
4,6 km
Route
1:30 h
Time
70 hm
Uphill
70 hm
Downhill
450 m
Highest point

Map & downloads

More information

From direction Vienna:
Freeway A2 direction Graz - you take the exit Sebersdorf/ Bad Waltersdorf, then direction St. Magdalena.

From direction Graz:
Freeway A2 direction Vienna - you take the exit Sebersdorf/ Bad Waltersdorf, then direction St. Magdalena.

Detailed information on how to get to us can be found here.
The tour starts in the center of the village of St. Magdalena. Along the main road you walk in the direction of Weinberg. In a slight right turn you branch off in the direction of Rohrberg. Via Steinbüchl you then come to the Lorettokapelle, where you will also find a black Madonna. Follow the same path back to the starting point in St. Magdalena.
  1. start in the center of St. Magdalena
  2. along the main road in the direction of Weinberg
  3. in a slight right bend turn off in the direction of Rohrberg
  4. via Steinbüchl to the Lorettokapelle (Black Madonna)
  5. take the same path back to the starting point.

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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There are numerous parking spaces available in the center of the village.
Tourist Office Thermen- & Vulkanland
Gästeinfo Bad Waltersdorf
Hauptplatz 90
8271 Bad Waltersdorf
Tel: +43 3382 55 100-71
badwaltersdorf@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at

Hiking maps are available at the information office in Bad Waltersdorf.

Gallery

Kindererlebnis-Bauernhof Perhofer, Silvia | © Oststeiermark Tourismus, Rene Strasser

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