Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe Visitors Centre (Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria)
N 47° 04.531 E 012° 45.070
33T E 329275 N 5216010
At the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, the highest point of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in the heart of Hohe Tauern National Park, you can find large Visitors Centre, offering except exhausting info about the National Park also several exhibitions.
Waymark Code: WM78R7
Location: Kärnten, Austria
Date Posted: 09/20/2009
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The Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe is the touristic centre (and the highest point of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road) in the heart of Hohe Tauern National Park. The place is named after the visit of Kaiser Franz-Josef made here in 1856. Here you will find large Visitors Centre, offering except exhausting info about the National Park also several exhibitions.
The "Grossglockner" exhibition at the Visitors Centre shows you on four floors all that is interesting about the highest mountain in Austria, with a Rock and Ice path of sensory experience, a Glockner Quiz, the Glockner Panorama Room, the Glockner Cinema and also confrontation with the theme of "The Grossglockner as a Mountain of Power" in the "Power Room" exhibition area.
Especially worth mentioning is "Fascination of Ice and Glacier" exhibition – a glance beneath the frosty surface of the ice – and the special "Water-Life" exhibition, to the theme of water as a phenomenon with its special characteristics and qualities as a stimulation for the careful and sparing handling of the elixir of life.
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