Rogner Bad Blumau Hundertwasser

Rogner Bad Blumau in the eastern Styrian hill country is one of the world's most visually extraordinary thermal spa complexes — a fantastical architectural composition designed entirely by the Viennese artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, whose philosophy of organic architecture, rejection of straight lines and celebration of individual expression resulted in a hotel and spa of hallucinatory colour, irregular form and exuberant decoration that looks like a building from a fairy tale. The hot sulphurous water emerges from deep Styrian geothermal wells and fills the resort's extensive indoor and outdoor pools, winding through and under the Hundertwasser-designed buildings in thermal streams that flow between the guest rooms. The thermal landscape is inseparable from the artistic landscape — both are creations of the same visionary imagination. The rolling green hills of the Styrian Thermenland, with its wine routes, pumpkin seed oil tradition and Slovenian borderland landscape, provide a pleasantly bucolic setting for this architectural tour de force.