Schloss Tabor - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

A beautiful medieval castle situated on a dormant volcano above the town of Riegersburg in the Austrian state of Styria. The castle is owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein and contains a museum with changing exhibitions. The impressive basalt crag on which the castle was built was populated already 6000 years ago. With its extensive fortifications, this largest Baroque castle in Styria, was rightly known as the strongest fortress in the Occident.

A privately founded open-air museum in 1976 in the municipality of Gerersdorf-Sulz in Burgenland. The visitors are introduced to the way of life of the farmers and craftsmen in this region back then, be it on an independent tour of the authentically furnished buildings or on a guided tour. In addition, the extensive information material provided explains the individual buildings.

Güssing Castle was built in 1157 on the steep rock of an extinct volcanic cone. After several changes of ownership, the castle came into the possession of the Batthyány family in 1524. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was expanded into a fortress and was intended to serve as a bulwark - especially against the armies from the east. With the loss of its strategic importance, the castle was abandoned to decay in the 18th century.

The cellar district of Heiligenbrunn in Heiligenbrunn in Burgenland extends across the vineyards of Stifterberg, Zeinerberg and Zeinergraben on a ridge west of the southern Burgenland village of Heiligenbrunn and is part of the "Nature Park in the Wine Idyll". In total, the cellar district consists of around 150 press houses and wine cellars, which, however, are not cellars per se, but mostly wooden block buildings on a rammed earth floor.

A majestic zoo at Schloss Herberstein in Styria, Austria. It has so many animals and birds and also Due to the steep slopes around the castle Herberstein, count Johann Maximilian I zu Herberstein chose to give up the idea of keeping cattle around the castle, and he chose to bring fallow deer from Italy, to browse the environment around the castle and this became the origin of the present zoo.

The Stubenbergsee is an artificial bathing lake below the Styrian village of Stubenberg, municipality of Stubenberg am See . It lies at the foot of the Kulm. The approximately 40 hectare lake was created between 1968 and 1971. Various leisure facilities such as restaurants, changing facilities, boat and bicycle rentals, beach volleyball courts, surfing school, children's playgrounds, etc. and sunbathing areas are mainly located on the east and north banks.