The Pilgrimage Church of Maria Langegg stands in the wooded hills above the Danube, away from the postcard abbey-and-vineyard face of Melk and the Wachau. Its Baroque church and monastery buildings mark a long-standing pilgrimage stop on regional routes.
It is best for travellers with a car, bike legs or a specific interest in church architecture and quiet hill villages. The reward is not spectacle so much as a slower, inland Wachau atmosphere beyond the river towns.