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Sights not to be missed in Salzburg
The City
Salzburg is the native land of the famous musician and composer Wolfang Amadeus Mozart and it is well known for the Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele), which is held each summer. Relaxing and elegant, it still is one of the favourite city for art and cultural lovers. Salzburg is located on the river Salzbach and it’s dominated by the ancient castle. It was the seat of powerful feudal and ecclesiastic lords. Cultural and artistic centre, it hosts music conservatoires and the famous Salzburg Festival, a prominent festival of music and drama. The city is renowned for its warm and friendly atmosphere and it offers a large variety of hotels welcoming tourists from all over the word.
Art
Salzburg shows public and cultural buildings and it preserves epigraphs and mosaics coming from nearby villas. In the oldest part of the city stretching between the river Salzbach and hills you can find picturesque streets and squares with fountains and old houses in baroque style. First founded in 774 AD, the Salzburg Cathedral was rebuilt in the XI century and then rebuilt again between 1614 and 1628 following the project of the architect S. Solari. In the surrounding area, the architect Scamozzi planned 4 new squares. This cathedral has three apses and a two-tower façade. The interior is decorated with frescos and stuccos and it preserves a rich collection of jewellery dating back to Carolingian and Romanesque times. The Hohensalzburg castle dominates the old city. Dating back to the XI century, the castle underwent many transformations during the XV-XVI and XVIII centuries. Archiepiscopal residence from 1120, it preserves remarkable baroque and classicizing interiors.
Panoramic Spots
Very few cities can offer stunning panoramic views as Salzburg does. You just can open the window of your hotel’s room, sit down at a table in a coffee or walk up to the top of a hill in order to see the wonderful view of old buildings and baroque doms in the centre dominated by the Fortress of Hohensalzburg.
You may also admire the city from a lookout. There are some in the neighbourhood (for example from the Untersberg mountain reachable by cableway and from the Sanctuary of Maria Plain) and in the city of Salzburg itself.
Festung Hohensalzburg / Fortress of Hohensalzburg: it can be reached by cable car from Festungsgasse or walking. Chargeable entrance from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm and during summer from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm. You can start having a view over the city roofs reaching the fortress by cable car. The fortress and expecially the rectangular tower (Rechteckturm) where guided visits start offer a panorama of the whole city and of its surroundings.
Mönchsberg mountain (take the lift from Gstättengasse / A.-Neumayr-Platz).
The wonderful view you can enjoy from the coffee-restaurant Winkler persuaded many inhabitants of Salzburg, who were outraged when some years ago this modern building with large panoramic windows was built. Another splendid panoramic spot is the nearby Humboldterrasse which can easily be reached on foot.
Glockenspiel (Carillon Tower perched on top of the Residenz Neubau. It can be reached at 10.45 am and at 5.45 pm / during winter only on workdays). Despite its modest height, this centrally located lookout offers a pleasant view.
Mozart’s Birth-House
Your best starting point for the Mozart-tour of Salzburg is this building at 9 Getreidegasse, Mozart’s Birth-House (Mozarts Geburtshaus). The musician was born here on January 27, 1756. The Mozarts lived on the third floor of this bourgeois building dating back to the 1400’s in the heart of the old part of Salzburg. Wolfang Amadeus was the last child among his seven siblings and he soon moved with his family into a bigger house in Makartplatz thanks to his father’s job as Chapel director. Since then, this building in Getreidegasse with its charming inner courtyard hasn’t changed a lot, making exception for the rococo facade which was restored in classical style. Today, the building belongs to the International Mozarteum Foundation and it hosts a museum dedicated to the musician.
Sights not to be missed in Salzburg
Fortress of Hohensalzburg in Salzburg
The Mirabell Palace in Salzbur
Mozart’s house in Makartplatz in Salzburg
Mozart’s Birth-House in Salzburg
St. Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg
The Collegiate Church in Salzburg
Main Attractions in the surroundings of Salzburg