Best For: Intermediate skiing couples amongst a sense of savor for the cosmopolitan
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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 gondola for the chief mount leaves involve from town, as well as a sprawling network of lifts, gondolas, as well as runs thread upwards the mountains inwards all directions, offering the mightiness to drib into neighboring villages as well as areas without taking off your skis or board. The posh personality of the town extends onto the slopes every bit well, where tasty restaurants inwards mount huts pepper the slopes. Though Kitzbühel is famed for its Hahnenkamm racecourse, the most spectacular as well as perilous on the World Cup circuit, this is no Chamonix. Intermediates looking for long cruisers volition hold upwards most satisfied. Just cheque weather earlier you lot go—the area’s depression elevation makes lower slopes increasingly susceptible to pitiful coverage inwards lean snowfall years.
Kitzbühel is a little medieval town inwards Tyrol, Republic of Austria as well as the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (Bezirk). It has a population of 8,204 (as of 1 Jan 2010).
The town is situated inwards the Kitzbühel Alps virtually 100 kilometres (62 mi) eastward of the province working capital alphabetic lineament of Innsbruck. It is a ski resort of international renown.
Kitzbühel is 1 of Austria's best-known as well as fanciest wintertime sports resorts, situated betwixt the mountains Hahnenkamm (5616 ft, 1712 m) as well as Kitzbühler Horn (6548 ft, 1996 m). The Hahnenkamm is abode of the annual World Cup ski races, including the circuit's most of import event, the downhill race on the famous Streif slope. This downhill is counted every bit 1 of the toughest downhill competitions inwards the World Cup.
Each summertime Kitzbühel also hosts an ATP lawn tennis tournament on clay, the Austrian Open.
From 2007 to 2011, ITU Triathlon World Cup races took house at the local Schwarzsee lake.
The Kitzbüheler Alpenrallye is an annual festival of historic automobiles. It was commencement held inwards 1988. The commencement trip of the United Buddy Bears was 2004 to Kitzbühel, next yesteryear the commencement trip into the "big broad world" – when they went to Hong Kong as well as many other metropolises on all 5 continents.
Tourism
Together amongst the pistes as well as ski lifts inwards neighbouring Kirchberg inwards Tirol, Jochberg as well as yesteryear the Thurn Pass Kitzbühel is 1 of the largest ski regions inwards Austria. With some 10,000 hotel as well as invitee theater beds, Kitzbühel as well as its neighbours bring an unusually high density of invitee accommodation.
Holidaymakers inwards Kitzbühel bring 56 cableway as well as elevator facilities as well as 168 kilometres of slopes available to them, every bit good every bit xl kilometres of groomed cross-country skiing tracks. Of authorities annotation is the relatively novel 3S Cable Car, the cable machine amongst the highest above-ground bridge inwards the world.
In summertime in that location are 120 km (75 mi) of mount bike paths as well as 500 km (311 mi) of hiking trails.
Other attractions include half dozen lawn tennis courts as well as 4 golf game courses, the Kitzbühel swimming pool, Austria's alone curling hall as well as the bathing lake of Schwarzsee.
Kitzbühel also caters for the high terminate of the tourist market, every bit many celebrities as well as the jet ready come upwards hither for the international races on the Hahnenkamm.
Transportation:
Kitzbüheler Horn seen from the cable machine to the Hahnenkamm
Road: The Brixental Road, the B170, from Wörgl intersects inwards Kitzbühel amongst the Thurn Pass Road, the B161, from Mittersill to St. Johann inwards Tirol. Kitzbühel station is a major double-decker halt for buses to Lienz as well as Worgl.
Rail: Kitzbühel Hauptbahnhof, Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm as well as Kitzbühel Schwarzsee are stops on the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway. Whilst Hahnenkamm as well as Schwarzsee stations are served yesteryear local trains only, long-distance services from Innsbruck as well as Graz halt at Kitzbühel station. Kitzbühel station has only been rebuilt (2010) as well as been equipped amongst novel barrier-less platforms amongst underpasses as well as a lift. From 2011 in that location volition hold upwards no stationmaster at Kitzbühel as well as it volition no longer hold upwards possible to purchase tickets at the counter.
Places of interest
Liebfrauenkirche church building amongst its 48 one thousand bell tower
St. Catherine's Church: built 1360–1365, High Gothic church building inwards the see of the town amongst a coppersmith altar; the high tower amongst its spire is a striking landmark inwards the town centre. Its carillon sounds at eleven am as well as 5 pm.
Protestant Christ's Church inwards Kitzbühel: built inwards 1962 yesteryear Clemens Holzmeister
Reisch Dance Cafe: built inwards 1928 yesteryear Lois Welzenbacher (architect of the Tiroler Moderne); the Plahl Medical Practice (Arzthaus) was also designed yesteryear him
Berghaus Holzmeister, a guesthouse on Kitzbühel's local mountain, the Hahnenkamm; built inwards 1930 yesteryear Clemens Holzmeister
Berghaus yesteryear Alfons Walde, 100m away
Fresco yesteryear Max Weiler (1951) inwards Kitzbühel Primary School (Volksschule)
Newly built tri-cable organisation yesteryear the line of piece of employment solid of Doppelmayr, the cable machine amongst the highest elevation higher upwards the Earth (400 metres (1,300 ft)) inwards the world.
Museum Kitzbühel - Collection Alfons Walde: the novel renovated museum presents the history of the town, from G years agone to the wintertime sports era; it also includes a larger permanent exhibition of the Tyrolean painter Alfons Walde
Schwarzsee lake as well as Wilder Kaiser mountains every bit the backdrop
Ask a Local
Pepi Treichl, a ski teacher as well as hiking guide, is a lifelong resident of Kitzbühel. Here are her recommendations.
Best Digs
Budget: Hof Unterleiten is a farm amongst traditional accommodations.
Swank: Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel is a luxury hotel amongst a huge spa.
Best Eats
Cheap: Huber Bräu Stüberl offers abode cooking amongst large portions of Austrian classics. Swank: Schwarzer Adler inwards Jochberg, amongst celebrated chef Andreas Wahrstätter’s refined farm-to-table sensibility, makes for delicious fare inwards a historic guesthouse setting.
Best After-Ski Party Spot
The Hahnenkamm Pavillon
Best Rest-Day Activity
Visit the local museum as well as explore the metropolis center.
Kitbühel’s Classic Run
The Streif on the Hahnenkamm, where 1 of the World Cup races is held every January