Madlein Hotel is one of the most famous, prestigious and frequented Alpine hotels in Austria, located in a valley near Innsbruck

Passing the gallery

Text: Dmitry Kopylov

Materials: - (c) Sator/Soenne

Magazine: Na (taq) 2003

Among the most popular ski resorts, the Austrian Alps - Tyrol - are only slightly inferior to the sated attention of the whole world, but practically "explored" along and across Switzerland. In this graduation of popularity, an important role was played by the fact that during the last one hundred and fifty years the birthplace of William Tell has always remained an island of peace and stability in Europe forever torn by conflicts. The beautiful mountains of Tyrol are in no way inferior to the famous Swiss Alps, but, however strange it may seem, they are more national and patriarchal. Lilac-white deep narrow valleys are gently wrapped up in lush collars of snowy streams, flowing smoothly from steep slopes. Here, the night sky whitish from the myriad mysterious constellations of the Milky Way appears closer and more accessible, and the orange-scarlet disk of a small sun in the turquoise sky is reflected by fantastic rainbows from the clear crystal water of countless lakes and streams bordered with fancy patterns of melted ice. Bankers, kings, revolutionaries, dictators, extremists, democrats, writers, scholars, peacefully coexisting in the lovely comfortable hotels of Lausanne, Geneva and Bern traditionally came here and come to improve their health. The architecture of friendly Tyrolean towns and villages, it seems, has not changed at all over the past hundred years. Massive stone and wood, huge hearths where the bull carcass can easily fit, beds with lush feather beds, three-legged stools and heavy solid tables, behind which it is so cozy to drink fine local beer. Easy Venetian gondola, Babylonian tomb, Egyptian temple, ice Bagheera, bikers, merry motorists and other exotic figures - exhibits of the unique, but alas, short-lived ice sculpture park Madlein Hotel - one of the most famous, prestigious and visited hotels in Alpine Austria, located in Valley near Innsbruck. On five floors of a huge building resembling the facade of the old building there are family rooms with children's rooms, VIP suites, a conference room, two restaurants, a cocktail bar, a disco, a fitness center, a winter garden, a swimming pool. The design of the guest rooms is made in the traditional Austrian style - dark and light wood furniture and floors, wide beds, lamps in scarlet and yellow shades. At this similarity with the patriarchal Tyrol is exhausted. Then the fairy tale begins ... The even sunlight reflected by the surreal millennium from the snow cover of fantastic breaks of distant and nearby mountains, pours in an irresistible stream through the transparent wall of the hall. There is no trace of the rigor of the Japanese stone garden - every grain of sand sparkles merrily with millions of rainbows. The aquamarine surface of the pool resembles a quiet Hawaiian lagoon. Here everything was frozen in a joyful and impatient waiting for a flight over a valley covered with snow, where the clean mountain air is so transparent that it seems to be unearthly ...