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The village is about 500m north of the Krimmler Wasserfälle, on a side turning from
the B165. There are parking spaces near the path to the falls, which branches to the right
just before the toll booths for the Gerlos Alpine Road to Mayrhofen.
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Bad Gastein
06434 / POP 4360 / ELEV 1000M
Spiritually somewhere between Brighton and St Moritz, Bad Gastein runs hot and cold,
with therapeutic spas year-round and first-class skiing in winter. Though the damp is
rising in places, the resort has kept some of the grandeur of its 19th-century heyday,
when Empress Elisabeth came to bathe and pen poetry here. And the backdrop is time-
less: belle-époque villas cling to forest-cloaked cliffs that rise above thunderous falls and
springs still hailed for their miraculous healing properties.
