Craftsmanship and natural products from Tyrol

Whether nativity figures, root figures, statues of the Virgin Mary or masks: in the workshop and shop of the Burgstaller family in Zillertal, you will find an amazing collection of hand-carved works of art that are ideal as gifts or decorative pieces for your own four walls.

The Gallzeiner toboggan enjoys cult status among toboggan enthusiasts in Tyrol. And with good reason: the toboggans are assembled by hand in Buch near Jenbach with the greatest care and a great deal of expertise and offer both occasional tobogganists and ambitious sports tobogganists the perfect vehicle.

It is one of those businesses that have become an integral part of Tyrol: For more than 240 years, the Walde family in Innsbruck has been producing high-quality soaps from natural and near-natural raw materials. If you are looking for a nice gift or want to do something good for your own body, you should definitely plan a visit to the shop of Austria's oldest soap factory.

Nobody looks more individual and casual on the piste: At SPURart in Innsbruck, you can have skis, snowboards or splitboards customised in a unique wooden look or even assemble them yourself in a workshop.

Sustainable, regional and handmade: you can't really call a chocolate like Tiroler Edle a sin. The milk for Tiroler Edle comes from local grey cattle and the chocolate is refined with ingredients from the region, such as Tyrolean mountain apricots, Stanzer Zwetschken plums and Ötztal cranberries.

Whether at Easter, in memory of the deceased, for baptisms or as a light of peace at Christmas, candles play an important role in the Christian faith. Nobody knows this better than the family business Gredler Kerzen, which has been producing high-quality candles for religious celebrations, graves and churches for more than 175 years.

Alfons Steidl painstakingly forges lamps, candlesticks, picture frames and furniture from iron in Innervillgraten in East Tyrol. He also repairs pots, locks, grilles and other everyday objects, thus fulfilling the role of a village blacksmith, which has become a real rarity today.

Gläserkastl on Innsbruck Cathedral Square is one of the top addresses in Tyrol if you want to have glasses painted or engraved. Alfred Ecker ran the business for over 40 years until Silvia Pfister took over the Gläserkastl in 2019 and has continued the delicate craftsmanship ever since.

An oil that is extracted from stones? Yes, this is also available in Tyrol, or rather in Pertisau on Lake Achensee. The black oil, which is extracted from oil shale in a complex process, is said to have a beneficial and nourishing effect due to its high content of naturally bound sulphur. If you would like to find out more about the unusual history of Tyrolean rock oil, we recommend a visit to the Vitalberg Museum.