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Welcome to Salzburg, country of the music and the culture!
Salzburg has always been characterized by a unique athmosphere that you will enjoy visiting this beautiful city, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s native town. After visiting the city, many excursions await you in close proximity.
Salzburg is for sure one of the most elegant cities in Austria. Full of culture, it’s called the “Florence of the North”. Everything in the city recalls Mozart: monuments, streets and even chocolate. Therefore, every year many festivals and musical events are organized.
History
A Roman Municipium, the city was called Iuvavum. In the 5th century St. Ruprecht and his monks began to evangelize the city.
Later called Salzburg thanks to salt-mines, the bishopric became an archbishopric in 798 and it became a base for missionary activities.
The city played a very important role during the Investiture Conflict, when the fortress Hohensalzburg was built. It was a site of fierce fighting among archbishops, aristocrats, middle-class persons and farmers and its archiepiscopal title was very much desired and fighted.
In 1500 – 1600, archbishops were often distracted from the problems faced by the Catholic Church by political issues and artistic-cultural flowering.
Secularized in 1802, it passed under the Habsburgsand it began an Austrian district in 1849.
Starting from 1918, it is the capital of the federal republic of Austria. In 1921, the people of Salzburg voted for annexation to Germany causing bad reactions in France.