The Town Museum occupies a superb building, with a fine arcaded courtyard, whose architecture is marked by the traces of successive styles throughout the ages. Note the uneven entrance hall paving stones, the only ones of their type left in Villach..

Visitors should not miss these unique gardens, covering a 10 000-m² area and totally devoted to the flora of the Southern Alps. 900 species with their individual explanatory signposts are dotted around the landscape.

This small Museum of Vehicles is devoted to post-1950 means of transport. It displays the biggest number of exhibits possible in a really small area, including an outstanding collection of two-wheeled vehicles. A small museum guide explaining the t..

This triple-aisled church has a simple exterior but complex and marvellous star-shaped, ribbed interior vaulting. Apart from the high altar, with its magnificent sculptures and canopy, note the stone pulpit from 1555. Along the exterior and interior ..

The Schillerpark boasts the famous Relief von Kärnten , a huge relief model of the whole of Carinthia on a horizontal scale of 1:10 000 and vertical scale of 1:5 000. Visitors can thus familiarize themselves with the landscape's general features bef..

The late-Baroque pilgrimage church of the Holy Cross , with its characteristic twin-tower façade stands on the right bank of the Drava. An unusual plan provides much more space to the transept crossing and choir than to the main nave. Paintings and ..

Warmbad's six hot springs (29°C) provide 24 million litres of therapeutic water a day. Napoleon had even planned to develop it into a world-famous spa resort when Villach was part of the French Illyrian provinces. This project was never carried out, ..

In the Middle Ages, this castle was one of the Habsburg's strongholds in Carinthia. In the 16C, it passed to the Khevenhüllers, whose chronicles testify to the sumptuousness of the place during that period, before it was abandoned during the Thirty Y..