Like all the Old Town's streets, squashed between the river and mountain, the Getreidegasse or "Grain Street" spreads out, narrowly, between its old four-to-five-storey houses that lodge courtyards and passages within their depths. Sculpted..

In 1595, the former 11th-century bishop's palace was replaced by this fastuous building, on the initiative of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. The north-west wing only dates from the end of the 18th century. Young Mozart played numerous concerts in the C..

The " Nature House " is, first of all, a very fine museum which, in a modern way, shows, throughout its 90 rooms, almost everything that you would wish to know about the natural environment of this region and elsewhere. Highlights of the ..

If the Benedictine abbey-church, founded by St. Rupert in the 8th century, retains sections from the Romanesque period (West portal and St. Catherine's Chapel), it was greatly remodelled in the 17th and 18th centuries. At the entrance, a wrought iro..

From the Mönchsberg terrace, to which you arrive by lift, just below the Café Winkler , you can see how Salzburg is divided in two, between an anonymous and modern city, mainly spead out on the Salzach's right bank, and the town nestling between t..

The touching and romantic thing about Salzburg's oldest cemetery, St. Peter's Cemetery , are the chapels cut into the vertical rock face of the Mönchsberg. They are delimited by Baroque arcades and wrought iron grilles and are the last resting place..

At 120 m above the Salzach, the familiar, big, crenellated towers of the Archbishops' Castle, leaning on powerful bastions, watch over the city. With its towers, barbicans, armouries and arms depots, it is a real mini town perched on the Mönchsberg. ..

Near Salzburg, the Gaisberg enables you to overlook the whole region. On the road leading to the summit, the view faces West towards Salzburg, the Salzach gap, then Bavaria and much further afield, the Salzburg Alps. When reaching the top, at 1,2..

The narrow and picturesque Judengasse , where the former Jewish district once stood, opens out into the Alter Markt (or Old Market) where you can visit a Rococo-decorated chemists, called Hofapotheke , and the famous Café Tomaselli. As in the Get..

Consecrated in 1707, the collegiate church (Kollegienkirche) by Fischer von Erlach dominates the square. This grandiose and monumental Baroque church is seen as one of the architect’s finest works. As the name suggests, the church was affiliated to t..

The Kapuzinerberg stands on the other side of the Salzach, opposite the Mönchsberg, and ends in a spur occupied by the Hettwer Bastion , crowned by a church. From here, you can see the finest views of the Old Town, which, as in a fairy tale, spike..

The Franciscan church offers us a striking contrast between its Romanesque nave , bathed in darkness, so favourable to meditation and mystery, and its Gothic choir , with flamboyant openings that are inundated with light. The nave's massive pillars..

For the fastuous Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, this cathedral was supposed to surpass St. Peter's Basilica ! His successors were more realistic, but it is nevertheless an imposing building. It was built from 1614 to 1655, in Italian Renaissance, then B..

This large white building was constructed in 2004 by the Munich architectural practice Friedrich Hoff Zwink. Nicknamed, not without irony, the “shoebox” by the locals, it has a vast exhibition space dedicated to modern art. Its 2 000km2 interior regu..

Housed in the very pleasant setting of the south wing of the former Orangerie , which belonged to the Mirabell palace, this small, but very interesting museum greatly covers the Baroque style in 17th and 18th-century Europe. It exhibits a, sometimes..

Originally, this palace is a present from Wolf Dietrich, a real Renaissance prince both by his panache and excesses, to his mistress, Salome Alt . It was remodelled, then burned down, before being rebuilt in 1818, and is now the City Hall. From its ..

This former Summer residence was built from 1613 to 1616, by archbishop Marcus Sitticus, in an Italian villa style. The trompe-l'oeil virtuosity in the Music Room and Octagon, as well as garden fountains will surprise you more than you think (beware ..

It took just one month of the year 1615 to build the h Monatsschlösschl , which was one of Archbishop Marcus Sitticus' whims. A Folklore Museum presents three floors of exceptional rooms dedicated to Salzburg regional traditions, costumes, popular ..

A wonderful panorama awaits you, 12 km from Salzburg, at the end of a cableway, leading you to the top of the 1,853 m-high Untersberg . There, you overlook the Salzburg Basin and the view stretches as far as the neighbouring Alps, Berchtesgaden an..

You can find Mozart's birthplace in the Old Town's main street. It now exhibits Mozart mementoes. The composer was born on the third floor, which was where his family lived, on the 27th of January 1756. He composed most works of his youth here. You..