Hotel Villa Katharina

The Danube Valley


This small, pretty, country hotel has simple, light and stylish rooms set among the vines, each spritzed with colours that reflect the wine-growing region. Its attached Restaurant Zur Traube is something of a destination in itself.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The Danube Valley attractions

1. Schloss Grafenegg

2 MILES

About 6km south of Diendorf is this historicist castle with the look and feel of an ornate Tudor mansion set in English woods, although look a little…

2. Eat Art & Ab Art

3.28 MILES

Romanian-born Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri shows both his own work and that of others at this beautiful former convent. Exhibitions change at least yearly.

3. Pfarrkirche St Veit

8.8 MILES

Known as the ‘Cathedral of the Wachau’, the large baroque parish church boasts colourful frescos by Martin Johann Schmidt, an 18th-century local artist…

4. Piaristenkirche

8.81 MILES

Reached by a covered stairway (Piaristenstiege) from Pfarrplatz, Krems' most impressive church has a wonderful webbed Gothic ceiling and huge, austerely…

5. Museum Krems

8.92 MILES

Housed in a former Dominican monastery, the town’s museum has collections of religious and modern art, including works by Kremser Schmidt, who painted the…

6. Stift Göttweig

9.45 MILES

Founded in 1083, the abbey was devastated by fire in the early 18th century and so sports an impressive baroque interior. It's still a working monastery…

7. Karikaturmuseum

9.47 MILES

Austria’s sole caricature museum occupies a suitably tongue-in-cheek chunk of purpose-built architecture, its spiky facade tearing the blue Austrian sky…

8. Landesgalerie NÖ

9.48 MILES

From one side it looks like a squashed cube, from the other as though it's about to topple over – welcome to the latest addition to Krems' Kunstmeile: a…