Tirol

Exclusive guide to the best holiday destinations in Tirol, independent reviews from award-winning travel writers

Perfect piste Ischgl

Skiing in Ischgl and Kappl

For the moment, my mind and senses are utterly attuned as we slide past frozen waterfalls and pristine snowfields, This joins my Top Ten Runs of all time.

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Hotel Rasmushof, Kitzbühel

The Rasmushof Hotel is set in the very foot of the legendary Hahnenkamm, a mountain known throughout the world along with Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and the Eiger.

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Zireiner See

Hiking the Brandenberg Alps

Rupert Parker goes hiking in a circle around the Tyrolean Brandenburg Alps, starting and finishing in Kramsach and hiking up and down for 50kms.

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Cow and Wild Flowers

The Stubai Valley

Around 30 minutes from Innsbruck, the Tyrolean village of Nuestift makes a good base for exploring the Stubai Valley and its surroundings. Rupert Parker enjoys some Tyrolean hospitality.

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Night Train to Berlin

On a rainy night in February, I was waiting in Paris’s Gare de L’Est station for the night train to Berlin. Those last four words are loaded with romance. And I was taking this winter journey in search of the romance of rail travel in a European winter.

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Jakobsweg Culinary Festival in Ischgl

It was a sound I came to look forward to each day; the clanking of a thousand dull bells echoing their intermittent beats across the sweeping Paznaun valley as The Tyrol’s famous dairy cows wandered around snacking on the lush summer Alpine grass.

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