Alter Markt
Alter Markt, 5020 Salzburg
Salzburg's oldest marketplace has been the commercial heart of the city for over seven hundred years, and its compact, irregular shape tells the story of a square that evolved organically from medieval trade rather than being imposed by Baroque architects.
Augustiner Bräustübl
7 Lindhofstraße, Mülln, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
Augustinian monks founded this brewery in 1621 at the foot of the Mönchsberg in Salzburg's Mülln neighbourhood, and the beer has been flowing from the same location ever since.
Café Tomaselli
9 Alter Markt, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
Austria's oldest coffee house has been serving caffeinated beverages on Salzburg's Alter Markt since a Frenchman named Johann Fontaine received a trade licence on March 31, 1700 to sell chocolate, tea, and coffee.
Café-Konditorei Fürst
Brodgasse 13, 5020 Salzburg
Around 1890, Salzburg confectioner Paul Fürst invented a bonbon that would become one of the most counterfeited sweets in the world.
DomQuartier
1 Residenzplatz, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
The DomQuartier opened in 2014 by doing something that hadn't been possible for two hundred years: reconnecting the spaces where Salzburg's prince-archbishops lived, worshipped, and ruled.
Festungsbahn
4 Festungsgasse, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
The Festungsbahn is one of the oldest funicular railways in Austria, first carrying passengers to Hohensalzburg Fortress in 1892.
Franziskischlössl
9 Kapuzinerberg, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
Perched on the summit of Kapuzinerberg, this small fortress was built during the Thirty Years' War as part of Archbishop Paris Lodron's ambitious project to make Salzburg impregnable.
Getreidegasse
Getreidegasse, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
This narrow lane has been one of the most important routes through Salzburg since the Roman Age, and its name has nothing to do with grain.
Hellbrunn Palace & Trick Fountains
37 Fürstenweg, Hellbrunn, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
Prince-Archbishop Markus Sittikus built Hellbrunn between 1612 and 1615 as a summer pleasure palace, and in a detail that tells you everything about his personality, he deliberately included no bedrooms.
Hohensalzburg Fortress
34 Mönchsberg, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
This fortress has loomed over Salzburg for nearly a thousand years, and in all that time, nobody has ever managed to take it by force.
Kapuzinerberg
Altstadt, Salzburg, Austria
Rising 640 metres on the eastern bank of the Salzach, Kapuzinerberg is the quieter, wilder counterpart to the fortress-crowned Festungsberg across the river.
Leopoldskron Palace
56 Leopoldskronstraße, Riedenburg, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
Built in 1736 by Prince-Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian, Leopoldskron is a Rococo jewel set on the shore of a small lake, with the Untersberg mountain reflected in the water behind it.
Linzergasse
Linzer Gasse, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
If Getreidegasse is Salzburg's tourist shopping street, Linzergasse is its local equivalent — a long, narrow lane on the right bank of the Salzach that runs parallel to the river and leads from the Staatsbrücke bridge toward the Kapuzinerberg.
Mozart Residence
8 Makartplatz, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
In 1773, the Mozart family moved from their cramped apartment on Getreidegasse to this considerably more spacious house on what was then called Hannibalplatz.
Mozart's Birthplace
9 Getreidegasse, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
On January 27, 1756, in a third-floor apartment of a medieval townhouse on Salzburg's busiest shopping street, Anna Maria Mozart gave birth to a boy she named Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus.
Mozartplatz
Altstadt, Salzburg, Austria
This elegant square in the heart of Salzburg's old town was not always dedicated to Mozart.
Nonnberg Abbey
2 Nonnberggasse, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
Founded around 714 by Saint Rupert of Salzburg, Nonnberg is the oldest continuously operating nunnery in the German-speaking world.
Residenzplatz & Salzburg Residenz
1 Residenzplatz, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
For centuries, Salzburg was not part of Austria at all.
Salzburg Cathedral
1A Domplatz, Altstadt, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
This cathedral has been built, burned, destroyed, and rebuilt so many times that its current incarnation — the magnificent Baroque structure you see today — is essentially version four.
Salzburg Festival Halls
Hofstallgasse 1, 5020 Salzburg
The Salzburg Festival is the largest and most prestigious classical music festival in the world, selling roughly 250,000 tickets across six weeks each summer.
Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
Südtiroler Platz 1, 5020 Salzburg
Salzburg's main railway station was completely rebuilt between 2008 and 2014, and the result is one of the most elegant modern train stations in Central Europe.
Salzburg Marionette Theatre
Schwarzstraße 24, 5020 Salzburg
Professor Anton Aicher founded the Salzburg Marionette Theatre in 1913 with a single puppeteer and a dream of performing full-length operas with marionettes.
St. Peter's Abbey
Sankt-Peter-Bezirk 1, 5020 Salzburg
Founded around 696 by Saint Rupert of Salzburg, St.
St. Peter's Cemetery & Catacombs
Sankt-Peter-Bezirk 1, 5020 Salzburg
This cemetery has been in continuous use since around 700 AD, making it one of the oldest burial grounds in the German-speaking world.
Steingasse
Steingasse, 5020 Salzburg
While tourists crowd Getreidegasse across the river, Steingasse sits in comparative quiet — which is ironic, because for most of Salzburg's history, this narrow lane on the east bank of the Salzach was the far more important street.
Stieglkeller
Festungsgasse 10, 5020 Salzburg
The Stiegl Brewery was first documented on June 16, 1492 — the same year Columbus sailed for America — making it one of the oldest private breweries in Austria.
Untersberg
Dr.-Friedrich-Oedl-Weg 2, 5083 Gartenau
According to legend, Emperor Charlemagne sits sleeping inside the Untersberg, waiting for his resurrection.
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