The story goes that after multiple unsuccessful pregnancies, Mozart’s mother visited the healing waters of Gastein and miraculously gave birth to the musical prodigy the following year.

Austria’s greatest skiing paradise, Ski amadé is a unique destination. Where else can one ski pass hand you access to up to 760 km of unrivalled slopes, 270 modern lifts and 356 perfectly ...

Deirdre in Ski Amade Gondola Bad Gastein. Photo: Deirdre Mullins. I returned to the village after a delicious mountain lunch as part of the Königstouren, a culinary tour where you ski from hut to ...

I thankfully made it back down to the bottom in one piece. My toboggan adventure had followed a great day of skiing in the Ski Amade region, made up of a hefty 760km of slopes. The zone in the ...

It's part of the vast Ski Amade region and the seasoned skiiers in our group kept returning exhilirated and rosy-cheeked from the sheer diversity of runs through its 760 kilometres of pistes.

Mozart’s music has never been for me, but he lends his name to Ski Amadé, a network of five ski areas that’s much more in tune with my tastes. Packing up my bags, I fly to Salzburg in ...