The Middle ages in the heart of the Alps

Defiant fortresses and impressive castles, colourfully decorated churches and quiet, secluded chapels, picturesque villages and towns in quite different cultural landscapes; all these elements make up the charm of the "stairways to heaven". 

And as you ascend the last few steps to a high-lying chapel or mount the stone steps to a castle on your own two feet, in the midst of the historic cultural landscape, enveloped in the natural sounds of the Alps and with the scent of the woods, meadows and Alpine pastures in your nostrils, you will feel as if you had almost reached the Middle Ages. But on entering a church or a fortress, you leave the present clearly behind. A strange and mysterious world opens up before you.

In Laas you can visit the churches Hl. Johannes dem Täufer, St. Markus (St. Marx) and St. Sisinius, which make part of the "Stairways to heaven".