ST. ANTON - HOTELS & TOURIST INFO

This is a modern resort that has grown out of the village on the Arlberg Pass - a location where ski history began. Here one can enjoy some of the finest skiing in the Alps.
It was at St. Anton 1 289 meters that Hannes Schneider developed modern skiing techniques and began teaching tourists how to ski in 1907. The Ski Club Arlberg was established here in 1901. In 1911, the first Arlberg-Kandahar Cup competition was held. Today the ski school, still at St. Anton, is one of the largest and best ski schools worldwide, with about three hundred instructors.
The cosy little town is a compact resort village with a five-story limit on the buildings and no cars are allowed in the business area, but sleds and skis are plentiful.

In winter, St. Anton am Arlberg is quite fashionable. There are numerous other cold-weather pursuits besides skiing, including ski jumping, mountain tours, curling, skating, tobogganing, and sleigh rides, plus après-ski on the quiet side.
In warm weather, St. Anton is tranquil and bucolic, surrounded by meadowland. A riot of wildflowers blooming in the fields announces the beginning of spring.
At any time of the year, one can visit the Ski und Heimat Museum (Skiing and Local Museum), in the Arlberg-Kandahar House, where displays trace the development of skiing in the Arlberg, as well as the region's history from the days of tribal migrations in and around Roman times. The museum, in the imposing edifice at the center of the Holiday Park in St. Anton, is open in summer Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm, and in winter Sunday through Friday 3:30pm to midnight. The local library is also housed in the Arlberg-Kandahar House, and the park provides a variety of leisure activities, including minigolf, a woodland playground, a fishing pond, table tennis, open-air chess, and a curling rink.

St. Anton is an express stop on the main rail-lines over the Arlberg Pass. About one train per hour arrives in St. Anton from Innsbruck (trip takes about 70-80 minutes) and from Bregenz (trip takes about 90 minutes). Because of St. Anton's convenient rail connections to most of the visitors arrive by train. From the here many travellers take the bus on to other resorts such as Zurs and Lech. If driving from Innsbruck, one should take Route 171 west.