Discover Grazer Bergland
To the north of the historic city of Graz, where urban pulse yields to alpine breath, the Grazer Bergland unfolds like a living chronicle of stone, water, and memory. This distinctive area within the Graz Region is shaped by the winding Mur, whose silvery course binds together nature, culture, and centuries of human presence.
Here, scenic hiking and cycling paths weave through gentle valleys and rugged slopes; mysterious caves open their mouths like ancient storytellers; crystal-clear waters invite summer refreshment; and cultural monuments rise as silent witnesses to time. The Mur itself, gliding through this luminous landscape, gives birth to the legendary Murradweg—a path that allows travelers to experience this region not merely as visitors, but as part of its rhythm.
The Grazer Bergland Hiking Trail
From this mosaic of hills, forests, and flowing waters emerges the Grazer Bergland Hiking Trail—a long-distance hiking route north of Graz that guides the wanderer through ever-changing landscapes, past cultural landmarks and striking natural formations.
Thanks to excellent public transport connections, this trail lends itself both to contemplative day excursions and to extended multi-day journeys. It is a path for those who seek not only movement, but meaning—where physical exertion becomes dialogue with the land.
Frohnleiten
The City of the Golden Middle
Romantic, luminous, and deeply rooted in its natural surroundings, Frohnleiten—the “City of the Golden Middle”—rises like a jewel along the Mur.
In summer, its Mediterranean-tinged main square glows beneath open skies, while cyclists on the Murradweg pause to breathe in its gentle elegance. In winter, the illuminated skyline transforms the town into a vision of quiet enchantment, accompanied by its atmospheric Advent market and the Lumagica lantern park at Murhof, where light itself seems to tell stories.
Lurgrotte Peggau
Deep in the Heart of Time
Beneath the surface of Peggau lies a realm shaped by patience and water: the Lurgrotte, Austria’s largest water-streamed dripstone cave.
Over millions of years, the Lurbach has carved its way through ancient limestone, depositing layer upon layer of calcite, forming crystalline sculptures that shimmer like frozen echoes of creation. To step inside this cave is to walk through deep time, where silence speaks and stone remembers.
Rein Abbey
A Baroque Sanctuary
Founded in 1129, Rein Abbey is the oldest continuously existing Cistercian monastery in the world—a living monument to faith, perseverance, and quiet grandeur.
Its baroque church radiates solemn beauty, its library guards medieval manuscripts like whispered secrets of past centuries, and its surrounding forests invite visitors into contemplative walks, where nature becomes prayer and movement becomes reflection.
