The spruce main square, decked with flowers and fine trees, adorned with its Virgin Mary Column and lined with colourful houses, gives few hints of the town's troubled past. It suffered serious fires in 1528 and 1559 and flooding from the Mur in 1537..

Near Frohnleiten, the hamlet of Adriach has retained an interesting church that started as an unvaulted Romanesque building in 1050 to which a Gothic chancel, St Joseph's Chapel and the sacristy were added in about 1280. St Anne's and St-Aloyisius' c..