Lake Faak

Lake Faak is a lake in the Austrian kingdom of Carinthia. With a place of approximately 2.2 km2, it is the country's fifth-largest lake. The lake is positioned southeast of Villach inside the Drava Valley, below the northern slope of the Karawanks mountain range below Mt. Mittagskogel. The settlements of Drobollach and Egg on the northern shore belong to the City of Villach. The village of Faak to the southwest, after which the lake is called, is part of the municipality of Finkenstein. Lake Faak, acknowledged for its clear turquoise water, is a popular vacationer destination with a extensive variety of resorts and eating places on the shore.

European Bike Week, the largest motorcycle rally in Europe, is yearly held on the lake in September. Fishing, in particular for whitefish but additionally for carp, pike, wels, and zander, is quite common. In 1855, Lake Faak stimulated the neighborhood priest Franc Treiber to compose the track Nmav cez izaro, which soon became one of the first-class-acknowledged Slovene people songs, and still today is taken into consideration the unofficial anthem of the Carinthian Slovenes.