Grossglockner Road

For a fantastic 50km (30mi) mountain tour, load up the car and head for the Grossglockner Road, Austria’s premier panorama drama. Most of the juicy bits are in the Hohe Tauern National Park where there are dramatic views of numerous unpronounceable peaks, including the mighty Grossglockner.

The road was built between 1930 and 1935, but the course it follows has been an important trading route between Germany and Italy since the Middle Ages. The Grossglockner looms across the vast tongue of the Pasterze Glacier and looks every centimetre of its 3797m (12454ft).