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Spas warm, wet and dry saunas and
Part entertainment, part just pools bubble and simmer.
what the doctor ordered, spa Many of the most lovely
holidays are more than a mere wellness hotels are located
indulgence, and have the added in the mountains, like the five-
bonus of being regarded as a star splendour of the spa at
necessity to good health. Hospiz in St Christoph.
Austria’s more than 100 mineral High-tech, architecturally
spas have a long tradition of ambitious waterworlds are
healing all manner of complaints sprouting up across the
from rheumatism to respiratory country: the post-modern
illness. Bad Gastein’s water minimalism of Langenfeld
contains Radon, a gas whose Rogner Bad Blumau spa, designed by Aqua Dome, two thermal
powerful properties require Friedensreich Hundertwasser slopeside baths at Römerbad
that patients produce a doctor’s and St Kathrein-Therme in
certificate before participating. The clean, cool lines of the post- Carinthia and the spectacular
Others offer full regimes of modern Alpen Parks Resort Felsentherme in the Gastein
medical supervision, tailored in Maria Alm is a stylish venue Valley. The dreamscape of
fitness programmes, and of for classic sports massage. In Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s
course the more run of the mill Leogang’s Krallerhof Wellness Rogner Bad Blumau thermal
massage and beauty treatments. Hotel a full menu of cool and spa resort is unforgettable.
DIRECTORY
Information Salzburg Festival World Body Painting Krallerhof Wellness
Sources Festival Hotel
Salzburg Festival ∑ bodypainting- Tel (06583) 82460.
austriaguides Tel (0662) 8045 500. festival.com ∑ krallerhof.com
∑ austriaguides.at ∑ salzburger Rogner Bad Blumau
Austrian National festspiele.at Spectator Sports Tel (03383) 5100 - 9449.
Tourist Office Casinos ∑ blumau.com
∑ austria.info Hahnenkamm Römerbad
∑ kitzbuehel.com
Falter Baden Casino Tel (04240) 8212.
∑ falter.at ∑ casinos.at Ski World Cup ∑ badkleinkirchheim.
Bad Gastein Casino Opening at/en/roemerbad-
Booking Tickets ∑ badgastein.casinos.at ∑ skiweltcup.soelden. thermal-spa/
oeticket.com Festivals com St Kathrein-Therme
Tel (01) 1 96 0 96. Top of the Mountain Tel (04240) 8282301.
∑ oeticket.com ∑ vondenpistenindie
Cheese Festival ∑ ischgl.com
ticketonline.at Tel (04715) 8516. thermen.com
Tel (01) 188 0 88. ∑ kaese-festival.at Spas
∑ ticketonline.at
Dumpling Festival Alpen Parks Resort
Vienna Classic Tel (05352) 633350. Am Gemeindeplatz 2,
Tel (01) 1 982 13 51. ∑ knoedelfest.at 5761, Maria Alm.
∑ viennaclassic.com Tel (06584) 2100.
Vienna Ticket Office Harley Meeting at ∑ alpenparks.at/
∑ viennaticketoffice. Faaker See resortmariaalm
com ∑ europeanbikeweek.
com Aqua Dome Spa
Facilities for Tel (05253) 6400.
the Disabled Herding Festivals ∑ aqua-dome.at
∑ austria.info
Regional Tourism Bad Gastein
Authority Websites: Lipizzaner Horse Tel (06432) 33930.
Styria Procession ∑ gastein.com
∑ steiermark.com/ ∑ austria.info
fueralle Speck Festival Felsentherme
Tel (06434) 22230.
Tirol Tel (0650) 428 2000. ∑ felsentherme.com
∑ handicap.tirol.at ∑ speckfest.at
Upper Austria Hospiz
∑ barrierefreies- Wine Route Tel (05446) 2611.
oberoesterreich.at ∑ weinstrassen.at ∑ arlberghospiz.at

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