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Carnuntum
thumb|Plan of legionary fortress
Frohnleiten
Frohnleiten () is a town in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Rathaus_Frohnleiten.JPG|Town Hall of Frohnleiten Frohnleiten Baroque gables 264.jpg|Baroque gables at the main square of Frohnleiten Frohnleiten_Oktober_2014.JPG|View of the old town center from a bridge over the river Mur
Virunum
thumb|Virunum's Amphitheatre, southern part, near Maria Saal, with Zollfeld and Ulrichsberg thumb|The Amphitheatre of Virunum, northern part thumb|Carriage (to the underworld?) from a Roman tomb at Virunum. Today on the south wall of Maria Saal village church Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. Virunum may also have been the name of the older Celtic-Roman settlement on the hilltop of Magdalensberg nearby. Virunum (Virunensis) is today a Catholic titular see.
Teurnia
thumb|Roman relief stone at Teurnia thumb|Remains of an urban villa at Teurnia
Aguntum
thumb|alt=Ruins of Aguntum|Ruins of the Roman baths at Aguntum The ruins of Aguntum are an ancient Roman site in East Tirol, Austria, located approximately 4 km east of Lienz in the Drau valley. The city appears to have been built to exploit the local sources of iron, copper, zinc and gold. During the early Christian era, the city was the site of a bishopric, which, having ceased to be a residential diocese, is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
Pannonian Limes
Roman fortified frontier
Flavia Solva
ancient Roman settlement in Austria
Gudenus cave
cave in Austria
Dragon's Lair at Mixnitz
Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz (literally ''Dragon's Cave of Mixnitz) is a long cave with a wide and high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an elevation of above sea level. Cave bear of the species (Ursus ingressus) and other bone fossils that people found during the Middle Ages were deemed to be the bones of dragons, a belief that culminated in the saga of the "Dragon slayer of Mixnitz"''. The cave is one of the largest caves in the Alps where bears occupied an area that stretched over a length of way over , by an average width of up to an
Tischofer Cave
cave
Platt
locality in Hollabrunn District
Willendorf in der Wachau
locality in Krems District
Heidentor
The Heidentor, also known as '''Heathens' Gate or Pagans' Gate''', is the partially reconstructed ruin of a triumphal arch of the Roman Empire, located in what was the fort-city of Carnuntum, in present-day Austria. Originally tetrapylon in form, only one of its four arches remains.
Salzofen cave
cave and archaeological site in the Totes Gebirge in Styria