Luxury dog-friendly hotels in Lech, Austria

Amid the mighty Vorarlberg range, Lech is as famous for its reliable skiing as for the glamour of its residents. Classically Alpine in looks, the village is made up of wooden chalets that begin to look like iced gingerbread houses once the snow arrives. Long a haunt of the fashionable and the famous, it has no shortage of refined hotels and gourmet restaurants – the latter usually boasting deep wine cellars. Before the great and the good began gracing the village, however, it was already becoming a legend of the skiing scene. Part of the Vorarleberg, Lech can claim to be in the cradle of Alpine skiing, just over the mountain from the birthplace of Hanness Schneider, the pioneer who shaped the future of the sport. Almost a century later, these mountains have been linked together to form one of the largest and most reliable ski resorts in the world – and Lech is the diamond in the tiara.