Stubach valley Uttendorf / Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> <h1 style="text-align: center"><font size="5">Stubach valley</font></h1> <h1 style="text-align:justify"> </h1> <h1 style="text-align: center"><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Things to do and see near Uttendorf</span></font></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">Visit one of Austria’s most beautiful valleys. Click on this link to see the picture gallery of the lakes in the valley as well as the Wiegenwald forest.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">Stubach Valley – the gate into the Hohe Tauern National Park</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">The Stubach Valley is among the most beautiful and diverse valleys of the Hohe Tauern region. As early as 1916 Salzburg’s vice governor Dr August Prinzinger stated that although he had seen mightier mountains and glaciers he had never seen a more beautiful valley than this. That is why he thought a national park should be founded here. Then as well as today countless visitors have been fascinated by this valley. In his book “Pinzgauer Spaziergang” (Pinzgau walk) the famous artist Rudolf Ferbus from Zell am See writes about an almost “violent beauty of the region surrounding the Weißsee lake” </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">Tauernmoossee dam in the Stubach Valley </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">Fascination Nature and Technology</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">With a length of 1,100 m, the Tauernmoossee dam is one of the longest curved dams in Europe. It is surrounded by many mountain peaks more than 3,000 metres in height (e.g. Hocheiser, Hohe Riffel, Johannisberg,…)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">Every Wednesday (from May to October) the Austrian Railways offer guided tours of the dam, including its interior.<br>  </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB">Weißsee Gletscherbahnen: cable car that brings you into the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park</span></font></p> </body>