Category
page 1Landforms of Styria
Schlossberg
hill and former fortress with park in the city of Graz, Austria
Lurgrotte
The Lurgrotte karst cave is the largest cave in the Eastern Alps of Styria, Austria. It is located about north of Graz and crosses the Tannenben karst region. The cave has two accessible entrances, one at the village of Semriach and the other at the village of Peggau. At the Semriach entrance, the Lurbach River sinks into the cave. At the Peggau entrance, the Schmelz River emerges from within the cave, flowing to the west and eventually joining the Mur River.
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
Burgstallkogel
thumb|right|280x280px|The Burgstallkogel from the West, as seen from the Georgenberg
The Burgstallkogel (458 meters or 1563 feet; also known as Grillkogel) is a hill situated near the confluence of the Sulm and the Saggau river valleys in Southern Styria in Austria, about 30 km south of Graz between Gleinstätten and Kleinklein. The hill hosted a significant settlement of trans-regional importance from 800 BC to about 600 BC. Surrounding the hill is one of the largest Iron Age necropolises in continental Europe, originally composed of at least 2,000 tumuli.
Gleichenberger Kogel
mountain in Styria
Bärenschützklamm
Salzofen cave
cave and archaeological site in the Totes Gebirge in Styria