KLAGENFURT - HOTELS & TOURIST INFO

Klagenfurt is the most southern areal capital in Austria and the historic, economic and cultural center of Carinthia. The city, with about a hundred thousand full-time residents, is situated sixty-one kilometers away from Italy, thirty-one kilometers from Slovenia, about 300 km from Vienna and 140 from Graz. It's a sleepy city that is a great stop-over point if one is driving around Carinthia’s lakes. Klagenfurt is also a useful base of explorations to Magdalensberg, the Cathedral of Gurk, St. Veit, Hochosterwitz Castle and the lakes in the area. The city center is rimmed with streets, laid down where once the city’s walls stood. The center of the downtown of the modern city is Neuer Platz, presided over by a fountain in the shape of a ferocious dragon called Lindwurm. This is and the city’s symbol. There are various modern boutiques and places to go shopping and also many traditional outdoor café areas in the historic areas and courtyards of the city. It can get very hot in the peak of summer, but if one is here, can do as the Klagenfurters do and retread to the nearby Worther Lake in the western sector of the city.

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