Text: Benedikt Roth, Styling: Sven Christ “Eating soup gives you round knees” is a somewhat curious local saying here in Tirol. Its origin can be traced back to the fact that until a few decades ago soups were the main staple food in this region. Unlike today, soup wasn’t just a starter but a meal…
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Christian Moigg and his son Lukas are passionate about two things: hunting and cooking. They run the Herrnhaus, a fine-dining restaurant in Brixlegg located just a stone’s throw from the forest where they shoot the game which ends up on diners’ plates. I sat down with the father-and-son duo to talk about the entire process…
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Autumn is a time to relax, to enjoy, to slow down. And it is the perfect time of year to learn about Tirol’s wild herbs – not for cooking but for making natural cosmetics. I met up with a local expert to discover what the region’s woods, pastures and meadows have to offer my skin.
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Beer has been made in the village of Zell am Ziller for over 500 years. The local brewery, Zillertal Bier, recently opened a state-of-the-art interactive exhibition inviting visitors to learn about how beer is made and the importance of good ingredients. We took a look around the “BrauKunstHaus” in the Zillertal Valley – finishing, of…
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Luis Melmer and his family run the Alpengasthof Praxmar, a stately mountain guesthouse located in the Lüsenstal Valley south of Innsbruck. Far from the noise and stress of the city, it is an alpine haven where people come to get away from it all.
6 min. Reading timeSelection of our most interesting stories about huts, traditional recipes and the people who make Tirol what it is.
Shimmering in a thousand shades of red, orange, yellow and brown, Tirol’s trees are a spectacular sight in autumn. The golden transition from summer to winter is for many the best time of year for walks and hikes, either down in the valley or up in the mountains before the first snows arrive. Here are…
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This summer, I wrote about the various Tirolean valleys and told stories of so much life in so little space in the series “Valley Life”. I want to introduce visitors from all over the world to Tirol and open local people’s eyes to the very special aspects of their otherwise familiar environment.
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Aron Matthews is a music producer from the Zillertal Valley known for his summer-inspired pop tracks popular with radio stations and Spotify subscribers alike. We visited the musician in his studio to talk about life, Ibiza and the perfect song.
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Finding relaxation can come in many forms. Sometimes to get away, you *really* have to get away, be it remote monastery, rugged farm or luxury health resort.
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