TownBest December, May – September

Rattenberg

Austria's smallest town — about 400 people on ten hectares beside the Inn — and a Perchten night on 6 December.

Rattenberg is the smallest town in Austria: around 400 inhabitants and a surface area of ten hectares, squeezed between the River Inn and the rock it is named after. It is a medieval town in miniature, small enough to walk end to end in a few minutes.

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Krampus

The Best Places to See Krampus

Seven Alpine towns where horned Krampus and Perchten run the streets in late November and early December — including Austria's smallest town, which drums on petrol tanks.