Kaprun is at the foot of the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier, which ensures year-round snow. The town is a traditional Austrian village and has a large selection of restaurants and hotel accommodations.
Kaprun was originally a small farming community but started to expand around 1280 AD with the building of Burg Kaprun castle. The castle is now a famed landmark in tourist town. Kaprun expanded with the onset of tourist travel in the early 1900s, and in 2010, more than 5,000 guest beds are available in accommodations in Kaprun.
Activities in the Kaprun area include winter hiking, ice skating, tobogganing, horseback riding, snow kiting, tennis and rock climbing.
Kaprun is famed for a disaster that occurred in a funicular railway cabin in the year 2000, killing 155 people. The railway car was ascending through a tunnel to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier when it began to blaze, and only 12 people managed to escape the burning railway car.
