Klagenfurt

Welcome to Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt may not be up there with Vienna or Graz in terms of urban lifestyle, but it’s an enjoyable, vibrant and sunny city with a compact Inner Stadt and offers easy access to lakeside villages on and around the beautiful Wörthersee. At the city’s western limit is the wide green space of Europapark along with Austria’s largest bathing complex. It’s a surprisingly lively place, both as a playground for partiers down at the lido in summer and as a university town the rest of the year.

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Klagenfurt has about 90.000 inhabitants and is located close to Wörthersee. It is the native town of well-known writer Robert Musil (especially known for his book The Man Without Qualities) and is host for the The Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, a famous German literature competition. Gustav Mahler, musician and composer also worked and lived in Klagenfurt. Every year the Beach Volleyball Grand Slam Tournament takes place at Wörthersee lake at the beginning of August.

Lindwurm – Neuer Platz, in the centre of the city. The lindworm is the town’s landmark. According to a legend, an evil dragon infested the region where Klagenfurt is located today. The duke of Karnburg promised land to those who would catch and kill the dragon. Eventually a group of menials achieved to kill the dragon by a trick. They got the promised land and set up a village at the place where the dragon was killed. The monument was built in the 16th century. The head of the lindworm was shaped after the head of an glacial rhinoceros found in the same century in this region.

Klagenfurt has its own international airport Flughafen Klagenfurt .

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