Salzburg
A fairy tale setting, surrounded by lakes and mountains, and straddling the banks of the Salzach River.
Salzburg is a tourist favorite, with the number of visitors outnumbering locals by a large margin in peak times. In addition to Mozart’s birthplace noted above, other notable places include:
Old Town
- Historic center of the city of Salzburg, a World Heritage Site
- Baroque architecture, including many churches
- Felsenreitschule, an open-air theatre built in the quarry used for the construction of Salzburg Cathedral
- Franziskanerkirche, one of Salzburg’s oldest buildings, dating from 1208 and used by the Franciscans since 1642
- Getreidegasse, a busy narrow shopping street characterized by numerous high townhouses
- Großes Festspielhaus, an opera house and concert hall dating from 1960 and built for the annual Salzburg Festival
- Haus für Mozart, formerly the Kleines Festspielhaus, an opera house and concert hall dating from 1925
- Hohensalzburg Fortress (Festung Hohensalzburg), overlooking the Old Town, one of the largest castles in Europe
- Holy Trinity Church (Dreifaltigkeitskirche), dating from 1694
- Hotel Goldener Hirsch, a five-star hotel located in a building on Getreidegasse dating back to at least 1407
- Kollegienkirche, the Baroque style church of the University of Salzburg
- Mirabell Palace (Schloss Mirabell), a pleasure palace built in 1606 with wide gardens and a marble hall
- Museum der Moderne Salzburg, a modern art museum with locations in the old city and on the Mönchsberg
- Mozartplatz, a historic square with monument to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Mozart’s birthplace (Mozarts Geburtshaus), a house in Getreidegasse that is now a museum dedicated to Mozart
- Nonnberg Abbey (Stift Nonnberg), a Benedictine monastery founded c.712/715
- Residenz, the former residence of the Prince-Archbishops
- Residenzgalerie, an art museum in the Residenz
- Residenzplatz, a large square outside the Residenz with a large and ornate fountain
- Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom)
- Salzburger Landestheater, a theatre and venue for opera, theatre, and dance, with resident companies of actors, singers, and dancers
- Salzburger Marionettentheater, a marionette theatre established in 1912
- Salzburg Museum, a museum of the artistic and cultural history of the city and region of Salzburg
- Sigmundstor, an eighteenth-century tunnel connecting the Altstadt with the Riedenburg quarter through the Mönchsberg
- Sphaera, a sculpture of a man on a golden sphere (Stephan Balkenhol, 2007)
- St Peter’s Abbey (Stift Sankt Peter), a Benedictine monastery founded 696 with a well-known cemetery
- St Sebastian’s Church (Sebastianskirche), a church consecrated in 1511
