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HallStatt ~ World’s Most Beautiful Lake-Side Resort

Posted on Feb 10 in Europe, Featured, Hallstattby ShelynPrintText Resizer Text Resizer
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Why do I want to stay in this country and work so hard everyday while there are such nice places out there with relaxing lifestyle? I think I started whining too much. Gonna find a way to change my life.

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My mum visited several countries in Europe while visiting my brother in Slovakia.Instead of visiting big cities, my brother brought my mum to small villages blessed with a natural beauty and a friendly population.

Hallstatt, as shown in the pictures, is a slice of paradise. It’s a region in Austria, near the Hallstätter See (a lake). Hallstatt isn’t just any village, it’s a major Celtic archaeological landmark and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The name Hall is most probably from the old Celtic name for salt, the salt mines near the village being an important factor. Salt was a valuable resource, so the region was historically very wealthy.

It is possible to tour the world’s first known salt mine, located above downtown Hallstatt.

Hallstatt is a popular tourist attraction owing to its small-town appeal and can be toured on foot in ten minutes.

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What a dream place for retirement. 

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I intended to grow the plants like this in my house, but then my mum said it would be very troublesome to repaint the wall -_-”.
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In a 1956 book titled Panorama of Austria, James Reynolds wrote:

Halstatt is set on piles in one of the Gosau lakes, the Halstättersee. An intricate system of intersecting timber ramps, butresses and ascending terraces like hanging gardens creates an air of mystery, the eerie beauty of mirage, a village lost in the middle-mist of fable. The mountain flanks rise sheer from the lake, leaving no room for a road.

Prehistoric remains found on this site have given the name of the Hallstatt Culture to the Iron Age. Thousands of years before the birth of Christ, the salt deposits in Hallstatt brought tribes across the mountains to this improbably remote spot from points as far away as the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. From that early time, until the close of the 19th Century, the mines have been a bone of contention for “every helmeted dog in Europe to snap at,” as the 19th-century Count Rudolf of Habsburg is supposed to have shouted to the Archbishop of Bern.

So feast your eyes on the gorgeous views of the illuminated village!!

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It’s built in the middle of the lake.
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This is the perfect place to commune with nature.
What’s your purpose of living?
Mine is simple, spend my ample free time focusing on the fine points of life: music, a book, pastry, and a good cup of coffee.
I’m really looking forward to the day to come. 

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