Salzburg - Main Sights

Main Sights

Salzburg is a tourist favourite, with the number of tourists outnumbering locals by a large margin in peak times. In addition to Mozart's birthplace noted above, other notable places include:

Old Town

  • The entire Old Town of Salzburg was nominated as a World Heritage Site in 1996.
  • The baroque architecture including the many churches are world famous.
  • The Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom)
  • The Hohensalzburg Castle (Festung Hohensalzburg) on a hill dominating the old town is one of the largest castles in Europe, with views over Salzburg.
  • The Franziskanerchurch
  • The St Peter's Abbey with the Petersfriedhof
  • The Nonnberg Abbey a Benedictine monastery
  • The Residenz Palace (the magnificent former Prince-Archbishop's residence), containing the Residenzgalerie
  • Mozart's Birthplace
  • Mozart's Residence
  • The University Church
  • The Siegmundstor (or Neutor)
  • The Getreidegasse
  • Sphaera, a sculpture of a man on a golden sphere (Stephan Balkenhol, 2007)

Outside the Inner Old Town

  • Palace of Mirabell with its wide gardens full of flowers.
  • St. Sebastian's cemetery (Sebastiansfriedhof)
  • The palace of Leopoldskron is a rococo palace and a national historic monument in Leopoldskron-Moos, a southern district of the city of Salzburg.
  • Hellbrunn with its parks and castles
  • Tour companies operate tours of locations used in the film The Sound of Music.
  • The Red Bull Hangar-7 - Multifunctional building with a collection of historical airplanes, helicopters and Formula One racing cars.

Within the greater Salzburg area

  • Anif Castle
  • The Basilika Maria Plain on the Calvary Hill, a late Baroque church, on the northern edge of Salzburg.
  • Salzburger Freilichtmuseum Großgmain, an open-air museum containing old farmhouses/farm buildings from all over the state assembled in historic setting.
  • The Schloss Klessheim Palace (today a Casino) was formerly used by Adolf Hitler.
  • The Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat of which only the Eagle's Nest remains, was in nearby Berchtesgaden.
  • The Salzkammergut is an area of lakes in the Salzburg state, east of the city and further on into the provinces of Upper Austria and Styria.
  • The Untersberg mountain is next to the city, straddling the German-Austrian border, and on a clear day provides panoramic views of the city and the Alps.
  • Skiing is an attraction during winter. Salzburg itself has no skiing facilities, but it acts as a gateway to skiing areas to the south. During the winter months its airport receives charter flights from around Europe.

Zoo Salzburg

  • The Salzburg Zoo is in the south of the city, in the municipality of Anif.

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