Graz
Sackstraße
Antique area with unique mythology
Sackstraße
Graz, Steiermark 8010
Nearest Train: Hauptplatz (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
Phone: +43 (0)316 8075 x0
The devil must have been hellishly furious when he built the Sackstrasse ('bag-street'), which was more of and an accident than planned according to the myth. As the myth goes, the king of the underworld came to stop the construction of a church armed with bags of rocks and stones - he arrived too late and dropped these bags in a fury - hence the street and its name. This, Graz's 'antiques row' can be divided into three sections that in the past were separated by three gates. It is lined with a number of important sites: the Barockpalais Herberstein, Palais Khuenburg, Kleinen Palais Attems, Palais Attems, the Reinerhof (the oldest building in Graz), Trinity Church and the Alte Münze.
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