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Bite-size break Alpine delights
Austria’s second city, Graz, scales the heights with its turrets and spires – and also with its food, from mega-schnitzels to small plates. Add in mild summer weather and you have a recipe for a fine weekend
FROM LEFT Red-roofed Graz is known for its pumpkins; plate-defying schnitzel in old-school Landhauskeller, sausage at Gutmann and small plates in Der Steirer, near the ‘friendly alien’ art gallery; a traditional clocktower
WALKING UP AN APPETITE
Graz is a city that gladdens the heart. A river runs through it (the Mur), it’s stuffed with glorious architecture –all clocktowers, turrets and spires – and it rings to the sounds of church bells. Mighty Schlossberg mountain provides a dramatic backdrop and it’s worth the huff-and-puff walk up for the best views of the red-roofed Old Town and the quirky, sinuous curves of the modernist Kunsthaus Graz.