Children in the Hochreiter forest park in Eastern Styria | © Waldpark Hochreiter | Dagmar Frühauf Children 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 wide variety of ways to spend your day. Whether in nature, in legendary buildings, or at destinations where fascinating handicrafts come to life – you’ll find everything a traveler’s heart desires.

Create lasting memories with a visit to the natural and cultural sites of Eastern Styria. From the magical underground lake to traces of the Romans and legendary places of energy, you will encounter impressive locations full of history and inspiration.

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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Ice skating rink_Entrance_Eastern Styria | © Stadtgemeinde Gleisdorf_Tourismusverband Oststeiermark
  • Gleisdorf

Artificial Ice Skating Rink Gleisdorf

GL#EIS#DORF – Gleisdorf becomes an ice#village
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  • Vorau

Discovery tour and farm store at Josef Farm

The farm shop from Kolb's family is located in Vorau - farm tours and a common potato harvest are also offered.
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Festenburg Castle in Bruck an der Lafnitz | © Oststeiermark Tourismus
  • St. Lorenzen am Wechsel

Castle Festenburg

Explore the Festenburg and its history.
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  • Strallegg

Ie skating rink Strallegg

There's snow outside, it's cold and you don't know what to do? The ice rink in Strallegg is the solution. Go ice...
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  • Rettenegg

Jobi Ab Hof Verkauf - Froellenhof Joglland

For enjoyment at home, you have the opportunity to purchase fresh and smoked fish from Forellenhof Joglland in...
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  • Pöllau

Root Display Castle Park Pöllau

Visit the root display in the castle park Pöllau in the Nature Park Pöllau Valley.
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Minigolf at the Römerhütte leisure center | © Freizeitzentrum Römerhütte
  • St. Lorenzen am Wechsel

Minigolf at the Römerhütte leisure center

Fun and relaxation with minigolf at the leisure center!
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  • Vorau

Augustinian Canons' Monastery Vorau

Between the "Wechselmassiv" and its foothills in the north and the Masenberg in the south, the only remaining...
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Kunsthaus Weiz_Outside by Day_Eastern Styria | © Kunsthaus Weiz
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  • Weiz

Kunsthaus Weiz

The Weizer Kunsthaus is the heart of the regional art and culture business.
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  • Waldbach-Mönichwald

Recreationallake Mönichwald

The swimming lake in Mönichwald belongs to the "Seegasthof Breineder" and offers guests and visitors a chance to cool...
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  • Hartl

Kneipp movement tower in Auffen

At the highest point between Safental and Feistritztal, at the beginning of Auffen - Großhart, the octagonal wooden...
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  • Birkfeld

Adventure park summer toboggan run Koglhof

In the Eastern Styria region, there is no shortage of tobogganing fun, even in summer! Embedded in the wonderful...
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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 280 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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Children stroke sheep in Styria | ©  Oststeiermark Tourismus | Bernhard Bergmann

Experiences & leisure activities

Our excursion destinations welcome you and offer a wide range of experiences on a variety of topics. Whether it's a tasting of the finest schnapps or the special Stollenkäs cheese, an exciting tour through underground worlds or interactive adventure stations - right through to a hike with alpacas or a romantic horse-drawn sleigh ride through the alpine landscape. Immerse yourself in the region and experience it like the locals with a customised slow trip experience. Maximum fun guaranteed!

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