Die Mozart- und Festspielstadt Salzburg
Salzburg is a cultural center
But Salzburg is also an important trade fair and congress cities Trade and service companies as well as a powerful tourism.
The best solution is to get there by car or bus to
Traunstein, where you can
park next to the station in the
garage. Then continue by train to
Salzburg. Here you inform
the information point on a combined
ticket for the urban transport
as well as current exhibitions and city
maps. Or drive yourself with
the car, but not on the
highway (for Pickerl)
through Traunstein, then
the bypass in the direction of
Salzburg, across the old border, and
then follow the signs
"Altstadt". It is
interesting, for example, a tour of the
castle Hohensalzburg, a stroll
through Getreidegasse (Mozart
here was born),
a visit to the Mirabell Garden
or the House of Nature.
For
more information on places to visit in Salzburg
you get free at our
reception!
Mozartdinner Salzburg
Explore the city of Salzburg: Enjoy Mozart's unforgettable music with a fine dinner in Stiftskeller St. Peter, "like the old days" ... quickly the best places secure Hohensalzburg Fortress - the landmark of the Mozart city.
The Hohensalzburg Fortress was built in 1077 by Archbishop Gebhard, considerably enlarged by Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach (1495-1519), largest, fully-preserved fortress in central Europe. Particularly interesting are the medieval princes' apartments and the Fortress Museum. Since 1892, the fortress with a funicular from the Festungsgasse is easily accessible. Getreidegasse – Herzstück von Österreichs schönstem Einkaufszentrum
Getreidegasse - heart of Austria's most beautiful shopping center
The Getreidegasse, Salzburg's most famous shopping street, its charm gets not only through high, narrow and tight Clinging houses, enticing shops and the wrought iron guild signs, but also to the romantic passageways and courtyards. The old houses of the street are often decorated with annual figures, the eye of God or the names of former residents. Some houses are still bars to see where formerly hoists the loads transported from the warehouses. Over the heads of the visitors stand still the graceful and playful Zunftzeichen of inns, shops and workshops. Many of these beautiful "advertising signs" are especially artistically.
Salzburg Cathedral
Probably the most significant sacred building on the city and its ecclesiastical center, the Salzburg Cathedral. With its magnificent façade and mighty dome it represents the most impressive early Baroque edifice north of the Alps. Its origin is closely connected to the nature and growth of the ecclesiastical principality. destroyed and rebuilt by fire, enlarged and expanded, it bears witness to the power and independence of Salzburg's archbishops. Extensively is offering the Cathedral Museum. In the festive season, the famous Salzburg Christmas market is held.
Mozart's birth place
Mozart's birthplace. In the Getreidegasse No. 9 lived from 1747 to 1773 family Leopold Mozart. here was born on 27th January 1756. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The apartment of the Mozart family is a museum. Famous exhibits u. A. Mozart's childhood violin, his concert violin, his clavichord, the pianoforte, portraits and correspondence of the Mozart family.
House of nature
In the House of nature you will find modern, museum didactic and aesthetically groundbreaking exhibitions, events and programs in all areas of nature. Among the highlights of the museum is one of the aquarium. There are animals from tropical coral reefs, but also shown from the waters of Africa, South America, Asia and from our local region. In the paleontological department are not only impressive fossils, especially from the province of Salzburg, issued, one can also observe the development of the continents with the time wheel, and experience volcanoes and earthquakes with moving models. The man himself is always the focus of exhibitions - with its diverse dependencies of nature and the environment as well as with its different influences on it. The exhibition area "of European animals" has been designed so that it comes close to an observation in nature. In elaborately designed scenic insights into the "everyday life" between wild boar and water shrew can to learn many things.
