Activities in Mayrhofen

Culture

The Ziller Valley has always been a farming community and farming is still hugely important in local life. Festivals such as the ‘Sonnwendfeuer’ (midsummer’s night-June) and ‘Almabtrieb’ (bringing down of the cows from the alms-Sep/Oct) are still celebrated enthusiastically and ‘Dorffest’ (village festivals) are usually a great opportunity to see and sample the meats, cheeses and schnapps on offer at a farmer’s market.

Learn about the Ziller valley’s farming tradition, visit a 300yr old farmhouse and see how farmers lived many centuries ago, at the ‘Zillertal Regionalmuseum’ in Zell am Ziller. Then sample true farmers specialties, very local to the Ziller Valley at Mayrhofen’s oldest restaurant the ‘zum Griena’.

In high summer, catch a Tyrolean Evening where folk dancers perform dances depicting farming traditions such as the ‘Miller’s dance’.

Why not try…

• A stroll around the sunny hamlet of Brandberg - pass 300yr old farmhouses and meadows bursting with colourful alpine flowers to the sound of alpine cow bells
• Visiting the mountain dairy ‘Stoankasern’ to watch the traditional way of churning of milk into butter and cheese
• Indulging in a ‘Krapfen’ a local speciality of locally farmed cheese in a pastry casing