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List Of Ski Areas And Resorts In Europe
This is a list of ski areas and resorts in Europe. Albania * Dardhë * Pukë Andorra Armenia * Ashotsk * Jermuk * Lernanist * Tsakhkadzor Austria Carinthia Lower Austria Salzburg Styria Tyrol Upper Austria Vienna * Hohe-Wand-Wiese Vorarlberg * Ski Arlberg ( Lech, Zürs, Warth, Schröcken, Stuben am Arlberg) * Brandnertal * Bregenzerwald: Damüls-Mellau Ski Area * Kleinwalsertal * Silvretta Montafon *Schruns– Tschagguns Azerbaijan * Qabala - Tufandag Mountain Resort * Qusar - Shahdag Mountain Resort Belarus * Raǔbičy * Silichy Belgium * Baraque de Fraiture * High Fens * Mont des Brumes * Ovifat Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia * Bjelolasica * Medvednica * Platak Cyprus *Mount Olympus Czech Republic * Churáňov, Šumava *Harrachov *Pec pod Sněžkou * Špindlerův Mlýn Denmark * Gjern Estonia * Otepää * Võru * Kiviõli * Viimsi Finland France French Alps ;Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04) ;Hautes-Alpes (05) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnoldstein
Arnoldstein (, ) is a market town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Location Arnoldstein is located at Austria's southern border between the Carnic Alps and the Karawanken mountain range, near the confluence of the Gailitz (Slovene: ''Ziljica'', Italian: ''Slizza'') and the Gail River (Slovene: ''Zilja'', Italian: ''Zeglia''). The tripoint with Tarvisio in Italy and Kranjska Gora in Slovenia is south of the town at the top of the '' Ofen'' (Slovene: ''Peč'', Italian: ''Monte Forno'') at 1,509m/4,951 ft. Today there is a marker at this location. Arnoldstein can be reached via the A2 Süd Autobahn from Vienna and the parallel Austrian Southern Railway (''Rudolfsbahn''), running from Klagenfurt to the Italian border, where it is continued by the Italian '' Pontebbana'' line to Udine. Subdivision Arnoldstein is divided into six Katastralgemeinden: Arnoldstein (''Podklošter''), Hart (''Ločilo''), Maglern (''Megvarje''), Pöc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dachstein West
Hoher Dachstein () is a strongly karstic mountain in central Austria and the second-highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of the massif also lie in the state of Salzburg, leading to the mountain being referred to as the ''Drei-Länder-Berg'' ("three-state mountain"). The Dachstein massif covers an area of around with dozens of peaks above 2,500 m, the highest of which are in the southern and southwestern areas. The main summit of the Hoher Dachstein is at an elevation of . Seen from the north, the Dachstein massif is dominated by glaciers with rocky summits rising beyond them. By contrast, to the south, the mountain drops almost vertically to the valley floor. Geology The geology of the Dachstein massif is dominated by the ''Dachstein-Kalk'' Formation ("Dachstein limestone"), dating from Triassic times. In common with other karstic areas, the Dachst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annaberg-Lungötz
Annaberg-Lungötz is a municipality in the district of Hallein, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Geography The municipality lies in the Lammer River valley at the foot of the Gosaukamm. History It belonged for centuries to the Pongau. Only in 1896, when Hallein became a district capital, did the municipality become part of the Tennengau. Tourism One of its subdivisions, Annaberg im Lammertal, is a village notable for tourism. Located in the Alps, it is part of the Dachstein West ski region. Summer activities available to tourists include mountain biking, paragliding Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended be ..., white water rafting, and walking holidays etc. References External links Official website Tennen Mountains Dachstein Mountains Cities and towns in H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semmering, Austria
Semmering is a town in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is noted for its skiing, and has hosted the Alpine skiing World Cup The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang (skiing), Serge Lang and the alpine ski team d ... several times. When the Semmering Railway was completed in 1854, the town quickly became a popular tourist getaway in winter months. In 2011, the town had a permanent population of 571. Population Resort History of the resort At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the better Viennese society discovered the Semmering as a nearby summer resort - destination. The town was revived with the construction of the Semmering Railway, which opened 1854. Semmering - Südbahnhotel.JPG, Südbahnhotel, build 1882 Semmering - Kurhaus.JPG, Kurhotel, build 1909 Semmering - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ötscher
The Ötscher, at , is a prominent peak in south-western Lower Austria. Its name has Slavic roots and translates approximately as a diminutive of "father". The Ötscher area belongs to the Ybbstal Alps, which are part of the Northern Limestone Alps. The boundary between the districts of Lilienfeld Lilienfeld () is a city in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), Austria, south of St. Pölten, noted as the site of Lilienfeld Abbey. It is also the site of a regional hospital Landesklinikum Voralpen Lilienfeld. The city is located in the valley o ... and Scheibbs lies directly on its peak. Mountains of Lower Austria Mountains of the Alps {{LowerAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mönichkirchen
Mönichkirchen is a market town in the district of Neunkirchen in the south of the Austrian state of Lower Austria with a population of 607 inhabitants (1.1.2013). Geography Mönichkirchen is situated on the east side of the Wechsel mountain (1,743 m) in the south-east Industrieviertel near the border with Styria Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc .... The size of the village is 16.27 km². 68.34% of the area is forested. Population Sports There are two sports clubs in Mönichkirchen: * Winter sports club Mönichkirchen * Soccer club FC Mönichkirchen Around the village of Mönichkirchen there is a skiing resort that is joined by several lifts to the adjacent skiing resort of Mariensee (village of Aspangberg-Sankt Peter). The total length of ski-slopes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochkar
Hochkar (1,808 m) is a mountain and a ski area located from Vienna. Located near the small resort of Göstling an der Ybbs on the Steiermark and Lower Austria border, it is popular among skiers who want to leave Vienna for a day, being about a two-hour drive away. Ski and snowboard facilities The mountain has one detachable quad lift, four normal quad lifts (three with conveyors), one double chairlift and three towlifts, one of which is for children. Summer activities The area's lifts are open in the summer for sightseeing, hiking, or mountain biking Mountain biking (MTB) is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability .... Tours are given, only in summer, of the Hochkar Cave. References External links Official website- DE, EN, HU, CZ Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Upper Austria Ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annaberg, Lower Austria
Annaberg is a town in the district of Lilienfeld (district), Lilienfeld in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. History In September 2013 the village was the 2013 Annaberg shooting, location of a shooting in which three police officers and an ambulance driver died after a poacher opened fire. Population References Cities and towns in Lilienfeld District {{LowerAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peca (mountain)
Petzen (German) or Peca ( Slovene) is the highest mountain of the eastern Karawanks, the second-highest mountain of the Northern Karawanks and the most eastern two-thousand-metre mountain of Slovenia. It is a mighty mountain with a characteristic shape of a tableland with rocky peaks protruding from it. The mountain borders the Meža Valley and the Topla Valley to the south and east, and the Jaun Valley to the north, and is separated by the narrow valley of the Bela Creek from Hochobir. Two thirds of the mountain lies in Austria, and one third in Slovenia. The mountain reaches its highest elevation on the mountain crest of the Kordež Head (Slovene: , German: , ). The border runs across it. The mountain is built of Triassic Wetterstein limestone and Wetterstein dolomite. In the past, lead and zinc was mined on Peca, the shafts belonging to the Topla and Mežica mines. The lead-zinc ore occurs in Middle to Upper Triassic carbonate rocks deposited in an anoxic supratidal mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermagor District
The Bezirk Hermagor () is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in Carinthia, Austria. The district has an area of and a population of (as of 1 January 2016). The administrative center of the district is Hermagor-Pressegger See. History Its name refers to Saint Hermagoras, whose cult was centered at Aquileia Aquileia is an ancient Roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about from the sea, on the river Natiso (modern Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times. Today, the city is small ( .... Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. * Dellach ( Slov.: ''Dole'') (4) **Dellach, Goldberg, Gurina, Höfling, Leifling, Monsell, Nölbling, Rüben, Siegelberg, St. Daniel, Stollwitz, Wieserberg * Gitschtal ( Slov.: ''Višprijska Dolina'') (5) **Brunn, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassfeld
Nassfeld or Naßfeld (, ) is a town and ski resort in the district Hermagor-Pressegger See, Hermagor of the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia. It is located below the Nassfeld Pass. Lake Pressegg is nearby, where it is possible to swim in summer and ice skating, ice skate in the winter. Ski resort Nassfeld is a popular sport destination for winter and summer sports which include skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, mountain hiking and offers more than 1000 km of hiking trails. The area has 30 ski lifts: 5 Gondolas, 5 Six-Seater Chairlifts, 4 four-seater chairlifts and 16 tow lifts. The ski resort has over 220 snow machines for creating artificial snow and 110 km of ski tracks. The Aerial lift, cable car called Millennium-Express can lift people to the summit 1919 meters high in less than 15 minutes. The ski resort expands on elevation between 600 and 2000 meters. It has one of Carinthia's longest runs, Carnia, with 7.6 Kilometers in length. weat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
