The Hallstatt Journal

The village, in depth

Articles that go past the logistics — the people who mined salt here first, the village's history and the landscape of the Salzkammergut.

Planning a visit instead? Start with the practical guides.

A long wooden miners' slide beside a wooden staircase, running down a lit tunnel cut through rock

Practical

Hallstatt in Winter: What's Open, Christmas Markets and Snow

Hallstatt from November to March: which sights stay open, the Christmas market on 8 December, Advent around the lakes, skiing on the Krippenstein and what to pack.

Hallstatt's church spire and wooden lakeside houses below steep forested mountains, reflected in a calm blue lake on a sunny day

Places

Salzkammergut Lakes and Towns Near Hallstatt: Where to Go Next

What the Salzkammergut is, and the lakes and towns around Hallstatt worth a trip, from Lake Gosau and Bad Ischl to the Wolfgangsee and Mondsee, with distances.

A yellow-walled house on a rocky spur above Lake Hallstatt, joined to a steel walkway and lift tower, with a green meadow in front and hazy mountains behind

History

The Hallstatt Culture: How a Salt Village Named Europe's Iron Age

Why a whole era of European prehistory is named after Hallstatt: the salt mine, the cemetery found in 1846, the Celts question and where to see the finds today.

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