Things to do in Villach
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Stern
This lounge and restaurant gets a clientele from the very young hanging out on the psychologist’s couches and postmodern sofas during the day to a mixed crowd that comes here to feed on steak – its speciality (though Stern also does wok and salad dishes). The steaks are fine, but don’t always live up to the lengthy check list you fill out to order one, and the chef certainly doesn’t mess around with his meat when you tick ‘well done’.
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Stadtpfarrkirche St Jakob
The monolithic Stadtpfarrkirche St Jakob dominates the old town. The interior is interesting, but bring binoculars or a good zoom lens to really appreciate details of its frescoes. The far end of the nave has a stuccoed ceiling and a vast rococo altar in gold leaf, arrayed with fresh cream flowers, and its walls are studded with the ornate memorial plaques of the region’s noble families.
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Restaurant Pasta Bistro
This restaurant and vinothek set in a cosy, vaulted room offers an unusual menu of fish specialities alongside fresh, gourmet baguettes (as a main course) and a selection of salads and pastas (with about 16 different sauces). There are also a couple of meat and vegetarian dishes available.
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Relief Von Kärnten
Relief Von Kärnten is a huge relief model of Carinthia housed in Schillerpark, south of the old town. It covers 182 sq metres and depicts the province at a scale of 1:10,000 (1:5000 vertically, to exaggerate the mountains).
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Café Konditerei Rainer
Villach’s oldest café offers a sumptuous array of more than 50 different cakes, lunch snacks, a kid’s play area, and in summer a screen with live pictures from the ‘falcon cam’ at the top of the church steeple.
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Villacher Fahrzeugmuseum
Located 3km outside town, the Villacher Fahrzeugmuseum focuses on icons of everyday motoring such as the Fiat Topolino, BMW Isetta and about 250 others. Take bus 5179 from the train station towards Zauchen.
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Café Nino
Nino’s is a friendly, buzzing café on the old town square, with plenty of tables outside and fresh calamari on the menu each Friday. It also serves great ice cream and extravagant coffees.
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Soho
Under the same management as Stern, this is Villach’s fashionable bar-cum-club, with a resident team of DJs and plenty of sponsored events during which you can dance to the beat.
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Stadtpfarrturm
Each summer a pair of falcons nests in the Stadtpfarrturm, and you can even follow their domestic life on a closed-circuit TV screen from the café across the street.
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Museum Der Stadt Villach
The Museum der Stadt Villach is a fairly unexcitingmuseum covering local history, archaeology and medieval art.
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Thalia
A large bookshop with guidebooks, hiking maps and some English-language books.
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