This pilgrimage church was rebuilt by the abbots of Admont in an Italianate Baroque style, in the 17C. The interior has a remarkable unity of style, with the exuberant stuccowork matching the rich gilding that highlights the dark ebony altars and pulpit. The Calvary terrace offers a fine view of Admont and its elegant abbey church steeples, overlooked by the Haller Mauer, Reichenstein and Hochtor peaks.

The Benedictine Admont Abbey has been one of Christendom's great cultural centres since its foundation in the 11C. It remains so today, with a library that boasts some 1 400 manuscripts and 150 000 volumes. It is a splendid Rococo building, worthy of the treasures that it houses. After admiring the upper gallery, with its wrought-iron balustrade, note the ceiling frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte and the famous The Four Last Things, a series of sculptures by Josef Stammel.

The largest fortified church in Styria, built from 1470 to 1518, is a major work of the Admont masons' guild. It was fortified by order of the Emperor in 1532, due to a direct threat of Turkish invasion, acquiring the encircling wall, towers and massive barbican still standing today. Inside, there are mining motifs on the organ loft and a wooden figurine in miner's dress from the period of Maximilian II.

The Church of St Francis Xavier testifies to the power of the Jesuit College founded in Leoben in 1613. This early-Baroque building from the 1660s, attributed to the architect Pietro Francesco Carlone, offers a pilastered and corniced façade, flanked by two towers. Inside, the simple pilasters enable the black and gold tones of the original furnishings (1670) to stand out and there are overabundant grotesques typical of Austrian Jesuit Baroque churches.

The wrought-iron well made by local craftsman Hans Prasser in 1626 is considered to be the finest example of this art in Styria. The forged section, on a stone base, particularly the canopy with delightful Renaissance motifs, was produced in an outstandingly elegant fashion.

Despite remodelling and restoration, this fine building, erected by the rich eminent citizen Pankraz Kornmess at the end of the 15C, still cuts an impressive dash. The stylish façade overlooking the main square has a series of arches whose accolades are adorned with rosette motifs in Flamboyant Gothic style. The first floor loggia shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance.