Carinthian Lake Loop Stage Villach-Ossiach-Millstätter See

67 kilometres, 690 metres altitude difference

The start and end of the Carinthian Lake Loop is the distinctive red Friedensbrücke bridge, which crosses the River Drau in the east of Villach. On a cycle path leading north, after about only five kilometres, you will reach Lake Ossiacher See. With great views of the lake and the surrounding mountains, you will cycle around Lake Ossiacher See anti-clockwise. In Ossiach it’s worth paying a short visit to the impressive abbey with its baroque church from the eleventh century. After circuiting the lake, there is the first longer, uphill stretch. The road winds up 15 kilometres alongside the Afritzer Bach stream to Lake Afritzersee and Lake Feldsee. Then it is on to Radenthein on the eastern shore of Lake Millstätter See and further on via Dellach to Millstatt.