Sankt Veit in Defereggen ("

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in the

Defereggen Valley The Defereggen Valley (), or simply Defereggen (), is the middle of the three Bezirk Lienz, East Tyrolean high mountain valleys running from east to west. Its parallel-running neighbours are the Puster Valley and the Virgen Valley. The Defereggen ...

") is a municipality in the district of

Lienz Lienz (; Southern Bavarian: ''Lianz'') is a medieval town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative centre of the Lienz district, which covers all of East Tyrol. The municipality also includes the cadastral subdivision of ''Pat ...

in the

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n state of

Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...

Geography

Sankt Veit lies in the central Defereggen Valley and is the municipality in Eastern Tyrol with the highest elevation. It lies on the sunny side of the valley, and in the past

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and

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were raised there. However, there can be

snowfall Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...

even in the summer months.

References

External links

Homepage der Gemeinde
- town website Villgraten Mountains Cities and towns in Lienz District {{Tyrol-geo-stub