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Exhibition “Under the Spell of the Grossglockner” in the Kalser Glocknerhaus.
In a series of rooms experience the unique culture and landscapes
surrounding Austria’s highest mountain, encounter witnesses of the earliest
settlements and learn about all sorts of pious and profane customs and
conventions in the Kalser Valley. 

When the large expanse of larches, some of which are up to 500 years old, turns a golden yellow in the autumn, this is when the Zedlacher Paradise is at its most beautiful. But even in the spring and summertime, a walk through the “paradise” - and to the popular Wodenalm mountain pasture - lives up to this name. The nature trail Zedlacher Paradise above Matrei teaches the nature lover everything worth knowing about the forest and its creatures.

The small church in the district Bichl near Matrei East Tyrol, with its rare
double choir and the famous Romanesque frescoes, is one of Austria’s and
the Alps’ most important sacral buildings. The frescoes in the choir tower
are a monument to alpine-Italian culture before the onset of the Gothic
period. The paintings in the lower choir (Adam & Eve – fall of mankind) are
by a local artist.

One of art history’s most interesting churches in East Tyrol is the pilgrimage church “Maria Schnee” in Obertauern, built 1456. The impressive frescoes from the late 15th century were painted by Simon von Taisten, the court painter of the Görzer counts. Due to a vow in the 17th century – when the plague was raging in the valley – the symbolic offering of a sacrifi cial ram is practiced to this very day.