UPPER AUSTRIA
Upper Austria is characterized by three different types of landscapes. In the north there are granite and gneiss hills, separated in the middle of the province by the Danube valley from the Alpine foothills, the limestone Alps and the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut. The scenery around the lakes of the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut is among the most beautiful in Austria. The water of the Attersee, the Traunsee and the Wolfgangsee, to mention only three of the best known lakes, is not as warm as that in the Carinthian lakes, and the scenery is often starker and more forbidding. Visitors from all parts of the world flock to the Salzkammergut each summer, many of them attracted by the original White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang on the Wolfgangsee. The town of Hallstatt, on the lake of the same name, gave its name to one of the most important eras of prehistory. One of the main economic factors...






































