Lavant Valley

(Local Name: Lavanttal) The Lavant valley extends from the Obdacher Sattel, on the Styrian-Carinthian border south of Judenburg, to Lavamünd on the Yugoslav frontier, linking the Mur valley to the north with the Drau valley to the south. To the west stretch the Seetal Alps, reaching their highest point in the Zirbitzkogel (2,397m/7,865ft), and the Saualpe (over 2,000m/6,560ft), to the east the Packalpe (almost 2,200m/7,200ft) and the Koralpe (2,141m/7,025ft). The towns and villages in the Lavant valley provide varied leisure activities in both summer and winter, including such unusual sports as gliding and curling.