Salzburg itinerary
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Hohensalzburg Fortress (Festung Hohensalzburg)
Perched 506 metres above the Old Town on the Festungsberg, Hohensalzburg Fortress (Festung Hohensalzburg) is one of the largest fully preserved medieval castles in Europe. Construction began under Archbishop Gebhard in…
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Mozart's Birthplace (Mozarts Geburtshaus)
The bright yellow townhouse at Getreidegasse 9 is where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756, in a third-floor apartment his family rented from the Hagenauer merchants for 26 years. The building is now a…
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Mirabell Palace and Gardens (Schloss Mirabell)
Mirabell Palace (Schloss Mirabell) was built in 1606 by Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau for his mistress Salome Alt and their fifteen children, which was quite the scandal at the time. Johann Lukas von…
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Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom) and DomQuartier
Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom) dominates Domplatz with its twin copper-green towers and 71-metre central dome. The current early-Baroque building was consecrated in 1628 under Archbishop Paris Lodron and rebuilt…
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Getreidegasse Shopping Street
Getreidegasse is the narrow, canyon-like main shopping street of the Old Town, and one of the most photographed lanes in Austria. The name comes from Trabegasse, meaning trotting lane, and it has been a merchants'…
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Hellbrunn Palace and Trick Fountains (Wasserspiele)
Hellbrunn Palace (Schloss Hellbrunn) sits five kilometres south of the Old Town and was built between 1613 and 1619 by Prince-Archbishop Markus Sittikus as a summer pleasure villa. He had a wicked sense of humour, and…
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St. Peter's Abbey (Stift St. Peter)
St. Peter's Abbey (Stift St. Peter) was founded by Saint Rupert in 696 and is the oldest continuously operating monastery in the German-speaking world. The Benedictine community still lives here, and the complex…
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Mozart Residence (Mozart-Wohnhaus)
The Mozart Residence (Mozart-Wohnhaus) at Makartplatz 8 is the second Mozart address in Salzburg, and the one where the family actually lived once they had the money to move out of the cramped Getreidegasse apartment…
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Sound of Music Sights Trail
Robert Wise filmed The Sound of Music across Salzburg in the spring and summer of 1964, and half of what he shot is still walkable in a single afternoon. Mirabell Gardens is where Julie Andrews and the children skip…
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Salzach River and Kapuzinerberg Viewpoint
The Salzach River gave Salzburg both its name (salt fortress) and its wealth, since the Prince-Archbishops taxed every barge of Hallein salt that passed under the city. Today the wide, glacial-green river splits the Old…
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