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Styria
Styria: From glaciers to vineries - Styria, the 'green heart' of Austria, is multifaceted. diverse, and full of delights.
Its ingredients are quite simple: TAKE a huge junk of history, diverse landscape and nature, delightful unique food, wine and a lot of relaxed and fun people
STIR IT AROUND and there you have it - STYRIA
Facts about Styria
Styria, an impressive 19.153 feet difference in altitude between the highest point of the Dachstein, (9.826 feet above sea level) and the lowest point at Vulkan land (Bad Blumau,9.327 feet below sea level).
It is contrasts like these that guests and locals appreciate so much. The alpine north, the urban center of Graz, the soft hilly South and East offers countless possibilities within short distances.
Styria grows apples (75% of the Austrian supply), grapes up the 280.000 hl of wine, pumpkins for almost 3,2 million liters (about 8.453.504 gal) of the original Styrian pumpkin seed oil.
Styria has ..
.. 16.400 square km (about the area of Connecticut)
(4.052.528 square acres and is the second largest federal state)
Almost 62% of forest
The green heart of Austria has 1 peak just under 9.843 feet (about 3 km) 788 peaks above 6.562 feet (about 2 km)
1 national park
1 UNESCO biosphere park
1 UNESCO global geo-park
And more then 50 protected areas
Graz. The capital city of Styria.
Graz has 330.000 inhabitants, Is a university city (4 universities 2 universities of applied science and more than 60.000 students).
It was European capital city of culture in 2003 and is UNESCO world heritage site as well as city of design. It has the best-preserved city centers of central Europe.
And it has the most farmers markets of all of Austria.