Adnet, Austria

Adnet sits on a shelf of limestone hills south of Hallein, framed by the Tennengau valley and the first foothills of the Tennen range. The village's identity is built around a single industry that outlasted everything else: Adneter Marmor, a deep-red Jurassic limestone that has been cut from the slopes above the village since Roman times. Stones from these quarries line the Vienna Hofburg, the inner courtyards of Schönbrunn, the columns of the Salzburg cathedral and the floors of dozens of European churches. The active and historic quarry workings are open to walkers via marked trails, the Marmormuseum in the centre tells the long story of the trade, and the surrounding countryside opens cleanly into the Salzkammergut lake district and into Hallein's salt-mine landscape.