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Your quick guide to a stay in Hallstatt
Hallstatt is impossibly picturesque — pastel houses clinging to a narrow shelf between the Dachstein massif and the dark mirror of Lake Hallstatt, with the church spire and famous classic-postcard view from the north end of the village. The settlement has been inhabited since the Neolithic and gave its name to an entire era of European Iron Age archaeology, the Hallstatt culture. Head up the funicular to the Salzwelten salt mine, the oldest in the world still operating, and ride the wooden miners' slide deep into the mountain; the Skywalk viewing platform 360m above the village offers the kind of vista that explains why a Chinese real-estate company built a full-scale replica back home. The ossuary (Beinhaus) at the parish church holds over 600 hand-painted skulls. Wander the car-free lanes, take a passenger ferry across the lake to the train station (Austria's most romantic arrival), and don't miss a side trip to the Dachstein Ice Cave and Five Fingers viewpoint above Obertraun.
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