Lungau Attractions

The Lungau, is in the southeast of Salzburg province. From the Taurach valley, traversed by the southern section of the Tauern pass road, numerous smaller valleys branch off, giving access to the mountains with their rushing mountain streams, their lakes and attractive little villages.

The Langau is a wide forest covered basin (alt. 1,000- 1,200m/3,300-3,900ft) watered by the tributary streams which form the River Mur and lying between the Schladminger Tauern (part of the Niedere Tauern) to the north and the Gurktal Alps to the south. Open only to the east, it is cut in two by the long flat-topped ridge of the Mitterberg (1,581m/5,187ft). In winter it is one of the coldest areas in Austria.