Hallstatt Hallstättersee HD travel video

Hallstatt, Upper Austria is a lakeside village located at the south-western shore of the Hallstätter See in the austrian Salzkammergut region, southeast of Salzburg . The town lies on the national road linking Salzburg and Graz. Salt was a valuable resource, so the region was historically very wealthy. The village also gave its name to the early Iron Age Hallstatt Culture and is a World Heritage Site for Cultural Heritage. Hallstatt is a popular tourist attraction owing to its small-town appeal and can be toured on foot in ten minutes. The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture from the 8th to 6th centuries BC (European Early Iron Age), developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of Central Europe by the La Tène culture.
By the 6th century BC, the Halstatt culture extended for some 1000 km, from the Champagne-Ardenne in the west, through the Upper Rhine and the upper Danube, as far as the Vienna Basin and the Danubian Lowland in the east, from the Main, Bohemia and the Little Carpathians in the north, to the Swiss plateau, the Salzkammergut and to Lower Styria. The culture is commonly linked to Proto-Celtic and Celtic populations in its western zone and with (pre-)Illyrians in its eastern zone. This secluded and utterly captivating landscape counts as one of the first places of human settlement due to the rich sources of natural salt, which have been mined for thousands of years. It is possible to tour the world's first known salt mine, located above downtown Hallstatt.

Recently (2011) came to light that the chinese seem to love Halllstatt so much that they secretly planned to build a replica of this stunning historic village thousands of Miles away in Guangdong Province. It was quite a shock for the villagers and local authorities of this UNESCO World Heritage site to discover that the construction of a copycat project in China was already in an advanced stage of achievement but, as a BBC News correspondent pertinently remarked, (quote) ' They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but it may take more than a lake and some hills to elevate China's version of an Austrian village to the status of Hallstatt'
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[philmotronic]

Now, if that's not a compliment I'd like to know what is. Thank you PearlFinity !

[mimeart]

this town is a paradise on earth for me

[Thorsten000]

2:12 - 2:24

Was für ein genialer Blick auf diesen wunderschönen Ort!!!!!!!!!

[PearlFinity]

I was there because of this video!

THX philmotronic

[007bondjb]

Beautiful  video. Keep em coming!

[paulorangelbrito]

The most beautiful place on Earth. I'll live in there someday, i swear!!!

[Mrtonigjurgjej]

Beautiful and Peaceful.

[robi2000]

Gorgeous place. I wonder if they were completely untouched by the ww2 ?

[Austropop01]

wunderschön, einfach zum Träumen dieser Ort

[AustriaRollerblading]

Hallstatt ist ein klein, wunderschön Stadt.  Liebe es!!!