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Classic holiday feeling, balanced cultural program, sporting activities and high-quality cuisine.
“There are many options for everyone who is still looking to cool off in the region in summer. Anyone who has not yet booked their holiday will find places and activities in our federal state where the classic summer holiday feeling leaves nothing to be desired. And if the weather doesn't play along, there are great alternative options with a balanced cultural program and a variety of high-quality cuisine," explains Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner.
Michael Showerer, Managing Director of Lower Austria Advertising, adds: “Summer in Lower Austria offers highlights for refreshing short breaks. Guests can experience Lower Austria as an authentic and extremely attractive destination, discover new perspectives and explore the homeland. Mountains and bathing lakes, natural and artistic gardens, modern art and culture festivals – everyone gets their money’s worth on our carefully curated discovery tours for hiking, cycling and culinary delights.”
The Lower Austria CARD, for example, offers free entry to numerous outdoor pools and bathing lakes throughout Lower Austria, such as a pedal boat trip to the Ottenstein reservoir or the Lunzer See. But you can also find plenty of cooling off in Lower Austria away from the many swimming pools, for example in the largest wine cellar in Austria, the Retzer Erlebniskeller or the new Waldviertler Sommerfrische, which, among other things, for that special holiday moment away from the tourist paths with the "Hidden Treasures" of the Waldviertel such as the Brunngartl cares. A visit to the many Lower Austrian show gardens is particularly appealing. From June to August moonlight concerts and performances, moonlight picnics, torchlight walks and twilight tours through the gardens are on the programme. But the garden summer also has a lot to offer during the day, for example at the children's and games festival in the Weinviertel museum village Niedersulz on July 2nd or the falconry on horseback in the Renaissance castle Rosenburg on July 29th/30th. July.
The Mostviertler field trials have established themselves as a fixed point in culinary heaven. On August 15th, the Mostviertler top hosts of the Lower Austrian tavern culture will be at Weißenburg Castle in the Pielachtal. The destination Viennese Alps in Lower Austria combines culture and hiking in the beautiful mountains, for example on July 24th with the mountain experience "Toque chef meets hut host". From July 1st, the Eis-Greissler adventure park in Krumbach with Lower Austria's first roller coaster, the Bucklbahn, will have a cool attraction richer and from August 5th to September 3rd Schloss Hof will offer "great holiday fun" with exploring adventure trails, the petting zoo, a Maze, water and adventure playground or handicraft workshops, theater and magic events. The adventure game "Outdoor Escape Room" on the ruins of Aggstein Castle is also recommended.
If you don't want to do without exercise and sport despite the high temperatures, Lower Austria offers numerous cycle routes such as the river cycle paths, the Mostviertel cycle discovery tour or the three garden cycle tours in the Tulln region. Hikers get their money's worth on tours through the cool Ötschergräben with a special natural spectacle, the Lassingfall, Mirafall and Schleierfall waterfalls. Sporty people also get their money's worth with stand-up paddling at the reservoir of the Wexl Arena St. Corona or with boat trips on the Wiener Neustadt canal.
In addition, the calendar in the festival region of Lower Austria is once again filled with over 300 events this year. The program includes music, theatre, readings as well as operas and operettas. To name just a few examples: the Schrammel.Klang.Festival starts on July 7th, the Glatt&Verkehrt Festival on July 14th, the Grafenegg Festival on August 11th and the isaFestival on August 16th. The Lower Austria Theater Festival has been known and popular for more than thirty years: from the Haag summer theater and the Raimundspiele in Gutenstein to musicals in the Staatz rock stage, from the grand opera in Klosterneuburg and the operetta in the summer arena of the Baden is for everyone stage Something for every age and taste. The largest photo festival in Europe, La Gacilly-Baden Photo, was recently opened, where 2.000 large-format pictures are shown in public space over a distance of seven kilometers under the motto "ORIENT". For the first time on Saturday, August 19th, the Wienerlied Festival will take place in the Weinviertel this year and should the weather not cooperate, the Klosterneuburg Abbey invites families to an exciting, newly designed journey of discovery or Liechtenstein Castle with its castle mascot "Lichti". the exciting world of the Middle Ages.
