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( 42 88;
www.gasthof-koppler.at
; Marktplatz 7; s/d €54/88; )
This yellow-fronted 14th-century
guesthouse on the main square scores points for its clean, snug rooms and its restaurant
that serves fresh produce from the Koppler family's farm.
AUSTRIAN
€€
Zum Goldenen Löwe
( 89 30; Speiserberg 9; mains €7-13; 11.30am-10pm Thu-Mon, to 2pm Tue)
The sound of the chef
pounding humungous schnitzels welcomes you to this wood-panelled restaurant opposite
the abbey gates. The sunny terrace out the back overlooks rolling countryside. Lunch
specials go for €5.70.
Information
The small
tourist office
( 56 90; Marktplatz 2; 9am-1pm Mon-Fri)
is in the centre of town on
Marktplatz, just below the abbey, where you'll also find a few guesthouses and the post
office.
Getting There & Away
St Florian (officially Markt St Florian) is not accessible by train. Buses depart frequently
from the main bus station at Linz' Hauptbahnhof (€2.80, 23 minutes); there is a reduced
service on Sunday.
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Mauthausen
07238 / POP 4970
Today Mauthausen is an attractive small town on the north bank of the Danube, east of
Linz, but its historic status as a quarrying centre prompted the Nazis to site the
KZ Mau-
thausen
concentration camp here. Prisoners were forced into slave labour in the granite
quarry and many died on the so-called
Todesstiege
(stairway of death) leading from the
quarry to the camp. Some 100,000 prisoners died or were executed in the camp between
1938 and 1945.
The camp, which has undergone extensive renovation recently, has been turned into
the emotive
Mauthausen Memorial
(
www.mauthausen-memorial.at
; Erinnerungsstrasse 1; adult/child/family €2/
1/4.80;
9am-5.30pm)
museum that tells its history, and that of other camps such as those at
