Old Town Walk in Villach

What's it about?

Learn more about the eventful history of the old town and take a look behind Villach's facades. Guided tour through the historic old town of Villach with interesting stories about Villach's past, present, and architecture. With over 65,000 inhabitants, Villach is the second-largest city in Carinthia, the seventh-largest city in Austria, and is located at the tri-border area of Austria \u2013 Italy \u2013 Slovenia. The Drau metropolis presents itself as lively, dynamic, and modern, yet it is ancient. The city of Villach owes its founding to its favorable traffic location and river crossing: even the Romans \u2013 who, by the way, already highly valued the healing springs of Warmbad. Today, Villach presents itself as a flourishing and modern shopping, high-tech, cultural, and sports city with unbeatable recreational value and charming southern ambiance. The old town with the main square and its characteristic side alleys is now a pedestrian zone and forms the ...