{"id":39776,"date":"2020-08-18T18:15:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifestylehotels.net\/en\/story\/gradonna-mountain-resort-kals-sustainable-by-nature\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:24:42","slug":"gradonna-mountain-resort-kals-sustainable-by-nature","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/lifestylehotels.masterbrain.com\/en\/story\/gradonna-mountain-resort-kals-sustainable-by-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Gradonna Mountain Resort, Kals, Austria: sustainable by nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anyone visiting this place will discover nature at its most beautiful \u2013 at the Gradonna Mountain Resort Hotel and Chalets in Kals am Gro\u00dfglockner, nature and sustainability are simply a way of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The landscape flickers past rapidly before the train starts to slow down with a groan, as if it is reluctant to reduce its speed. We\u2019ve arrived at the station in Lienz, and we grab our seven bags and step out onto the platform. A train journey like this has its advantages. Rather than putting your foot flat to the floor and racing off on holiday, it allows you to glide away in a leisurely fashion accompanied by a good book, happy conversation or simply your own thoughts. A friendly member of Gradonna staff is waiting to greet us at the station, and they drive us almost silently in a hybrid car to Kals, where the fresh, clean air almost overwhelms us \u2013 the resort is a car-free zone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We feel indebted to the power of the region and to sustainability”,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>says Martha Schultz in response to the question as to why it was important to orient their corporate philosophy towards sustainability, regionality and nature-inspired architecture from the very beginning.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n