The Benedictine Monastery in Admont has, obviously, its own imposing church. It has also a magnificent library with illuminated codices going back almost a millennium, and a host of the incunabula that followed; it has even museums of art and natural history, a fish pond, and large flower and herb gardens. Oh yes, and a good restaurant for weary pilgrims...

Much of the area near Admont is now a National Park, the "Gesäuse", named after the roar of the river Enns making its way through that mountain climbers' heaven. ("Heaven" it meant quite literally, as the much visited "Climber's Cemetary" and the names of some peaks, e.g. "Death Chapel", attest to.)

The Mendlingtal is part of this landscape. It is a narrow, romantic valley with small lakes and cascading water falls. On its river, the Mendlingbach, logs are transported down the mountain. (In old times for real, in modern times just for tourists.)