St. Jakob: in Defereggen - Blick nach Osten
St. Jakob in Defereggen straddles the Schwarzach in East Tyrol’s upper Defereggen Valley, where limited valley-floor land has concentrated homes and meadows between forested alpine slopes. The Schwarzach continues down the valley to Huben, where it joins the Isel. Much of the municipality lies within Hohe Tauern National Park, a protected mountain area that shapes local settlement and farming patterns. The parish church of St. Leonhard is a cultural focal point in the village centre. St. Jakob is one of Defereggental’s principal communities, with its compact built-up area giving way quickly to working grassland, woodland and side valleys leading towards the Hohe Tauern.
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St. Jakob sits beside the Schwarzach River in Tyrol, Austria, where the Defereggen Valley extends through the eastern Hohe Tauern near the Italian border. The settlement is part of East Tyrol, a mountainous region of high pastures, conifer forests and steep Alpine slopes. St. Jakob im Defereggen takes its name from its parish church, dedicated to St. James. The valley road continues towards Staller Sattel, an Alpine pass linking East Tyrol with South Tyrol in Italy. Explore nearby webcam locations that provide complementary perspectives on the Defereggen Valley and East Tyrol.
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