Bad Radkersburg Things to Do

Nicely restored side street that is! Parts of it were paved with gently round river stones from Mura, the river that marks entire Styrian region and towns upon its shores. The street is compact line...

A lovely church, this, with a beautifully carved doorway. Dating from the 1400s, with additions in the 1600s, its mellow sandstone blocks absorb the sunlight..... I did not get chance to properly...

The Frauenkirche is a rather twiddly, Gothic structure originally dating from the early 1500s, with a tower erected in the early 1800s. Over the main doorway is a rather lovely sculpture of the...

A lot livelier than Murgasse is Langgasse - the old street connecting both ends of the old city core with its main square. The beginning of street served as one entry point to the town in past, low...

You can enjoy watching some excellent old town architecture and views from this square when you sit down for your glass of local wines from one the cafes by the side and the wines are excellent in...

The very obvious tower (Stadtturm) attached to Bad Radkersburg's Rathaus is in the Hauptplatz, orginally Bad Radkersburg's marketplace. Dating from the 1500s, the tower functioned as the town lookout...

This is a really ancient church. It dates from the 1400s, and was originally part of an Augustinian monastery. It was abadoned by the in the early 1600s, and then became a Capuchin monastery, also...

Bad Radkersburg was once fully-walled and moated....it was a major fortress against Hungary, and later against the threat from the Ottoman Empire. Its walls had sixteen towers (four still stand) and...

The river Mur forms the modern border between Austria and Slovenia. But since the Schengen agreement came into force there is no border control. So you can walk to the river, wander through both...