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Villach

Villach is a town in the Carinthia province of Austria. It has about 62,000 inhabitants (2018). Wikivoyage

Population 65,127 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Austria

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Austria

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Villach. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Jazz Over Villach

    July

    A jazz festival in the middle of July located on Gernottenhöhe in Judendorf

  2. Villacher Kirchtag

    August

    Every year (usually the first week in August) the city celebrates Villacher Kirchtag with a big amusement park. The city can get very crowded in this week with as many as 50,000 visitors, especially from Italy

    Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Villach); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 39 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Villach Seebach 2.2 km, Villach Landskron 2.8 km, Villach Warmbad 3.2 km, Villach St. Ruprecht 3.7 km, Gödersdorf 5.1 km, Finkenstein 5.4 km

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