Give me silence, water, hope.
Give me the fight, the iron, the volcanoes.
(Pablo Neruda)
 
 
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Natural parks are “model landscapes” with a particularly ecological value. The Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen Nature Park was awarded the classification of "Nature Park" in 1982, making it one of the oldest nature parks in Styria.
The Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen Nature Park owes its special landscape form to the last ice ages, which have left wide plateaus, enchanting landscapes, numerous ponds, streams and springs. The agricultural cultivation of the cultural landscape in the responsible coexistence between man and nature ultimately forms today's diverse and colorful landscape of the region which offers many possibilities for recreation and long paths to be covered on foot, by bicycle and, in winter, wide ski slopes .