Events in Gastein
When you want to experience a few lovely days on holiday in Bad Gastein, there’s always "something going on" here.
Traditional farmer and village festivals and cultural and sporting highlights throughout Salzburg. Just pick out the best.
* Events in the Hotel EUROPÄISCHER HOF
October 2009
- Autumn regular guest weekend *
- Enjoying the spa in the „Gasteiner Therme” *
- Farming autumn in Gastein Valley
November 2009
- Discover Gastein as a paradise for ski tours
- Readings - Works by the Gastein-born poet Karl-Heinrich Waggerl, with our manageress Sigrid Bader by the crackling open fire *
- Krampus garland in our Gasteiner Klause *
December 2009
- Start of the season for Gastein cable cars
- Advend markets and Advent singing in Gastein Valley
- Traditional Krampus Run in Gastein Valley on 5th and 6th December
- Traditional "Forest Christmas" in the hotel garden *
- Easy-listening classics, presented by Herwig and Florian Oberhummer *
- Christmas concert by the Gastein "Thaddäus Choir" on 26th December *
- Dixie Concert with the Salty Dixie Ramblers on 28th December *
- Authentic Gastein evening, with Bavarian folk dances *
- Traditional New Year's Eve ball with 6-course gala dinner and live music *
- Children's New Year's Eve party *
January 2010
- New Year brunch *
- Live broadcast of the traditional New Year concert *
- Easy-listening classics, presented by Herwig and Florian Oberhummer *
- Procession "Perchtenlauf"
- Traditional Three Kings jump on 6th January, in Bischofshofen
- LG - FIS Snowboarding World Cup in Bad Gastein
- "Mozart week" from 22nd to 31st January
- "Night race" - night-time-slalom on the Planai in Schladming, on 26th January
- Horse-drawn carriage ride through the snow-covered Gastein Valley
February 2010
- Children's Mardi Gras *
- Mardi Gras procession with a local music group in Bad Gastein
- Mardi Gras celebrations on Saturday before Ash Wednesday in our Gasteiner Klause *
- Cross-country skiing pleasure in Gastein Valley
- World Championship "GASTEIN 24hr ski tour" on 27th and 28th February
March 2010
- "Snowjazz Gastein" Skiing and Jazz in the entire ski area in Gastein Valley
- Alpine hut magic, every Sunday with live music in the ski huts in Dorfgastein
- Start of the sunny skiing in Sportgastein
April 2010
- Easter festival in Salzburg, from 27th March until 5th April
- Traditional Easter fire in the hotel garden *
- Children's Easter programme of events with an Easter egg hunt in the garden and Easter petting zoo *
- Sightseeing tour of the large festival playhouse and also of Mozart's house
- 39th International Ski and Golf Competition from 16th to 18h April
- Skiing in the sun in Sportgastein
May 2010
- From May in Golfclub Gastein there is a "Golf taster hour" from 11 a.m. to midday for our guests
- Spring regular guest weekend *
- Salzburg Whitsun festival from 21st to 24th May
- Start of the mountain bike and bicyclecross season
June 2010
- "Mountain in flames" summer solstice in Gastein Valley
- Opening of the archery course in Angertal
- Valley festival by the Gastein Group on Ullman Wiese
July 2010
- Hotel EUROPÄISCHER HOF Golf-Trophy, on 3rd July 2010 *
- NÜRNBERG Gastein Ladies, World class tennis in the Hotel EUROPÄISCHER HOF *
- Annakirtag on 26th July in Böckstein
- Start of the summer season in Casino Bad Gastein
- Experience a long evening's shopping with live music and entertainment in Bad Hofgastein
August 2010
- Paragliding - Dreaming of flying
- Schubertiade in Bad Gastein
- Traditional village festival, on the first weekend in August in Dorfgastein
- Farmer's market in Böckstein
- Nassfeld Alpine festival. Around 10th August the traditional Alpine festival once again takes place in Nassfeld (Sportgastein)
- Opening of the farmer's harvest festival in Gastein Valley at the End of August
September 2010
- Herbal hikes and seminars with our qualified herbalist *
- Historic sword dancing in Böckstein. Every year on the first Sunday in September
- Guided hiking and mountain biking tours in the magnificent mountain scenery of the Gastein Valley
- Farming autumn in the Gasteinertal
October / November 2010
- Autumn regular guest weekend *
- Enjoying the spa in the „Gasteiner Therme" *
- Discover Gastein as a paradise for ski tours
- Readings from works of the Gastein-born poet Karl-Heinrich Waggerl*
* Events in the Hotel EUROPÄISCHER HOF
