Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
When the flakes start falling, surrounding slopes are given over to cross-country and
downhill skiing and tobogganing. Visit
www.salzburgerland.com
or local tourist offices
for details on activities, equipment rental and maps.
MUSICAL LEGENDS
Salzburg is a force to rival Vienna when it comes to classical music and musical classics. This is,
after all, the birthplace of such musical royalty as Mozart and Herbert von Karajan; the city that
inspired the carol
Silent Night
and Julie Andrews' high-octave vocals.
While you'll need to book tickets weeks ahead for the venerable Salzburg Festival in summer,
music fills this city 365 days a year - and we're not talking second-rate stuff. Beyond the obvi-
ous, you can watch marionettes perform opera, dine to Mozart's symphonies and attend a cham-
ber concert in Schloss Mirabell's exquisite baroque Marble Hall. The lowdown and ticket agency
details are available on
www.salzburg.info
.
Less high-brow is Salzburg's
Sound of Music
obsession. Twirl in Maria's footsteps on a guided
tour, create your own tour of the film locations, or even stay the night at
the
Villa Trapp for the
all-singing truth behind the Hollywood legend.
Top Cultural Highs
» The palatial state apartments and Old Master paintings at the Residenz (
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)
,
once home to Salzburg's powerful prince-archbishops.
» The Keltenmuseum (
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)
in Hallein, tracing regional heritage through Celtic
artefacts and the history of salt extraction.
» Salzburg's Altstadt (
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)
, an early baroque masterpiece and Unesco World Her-
itage site, often hailed the 'Rome of the North'.
» The avant-garde art and architecture of Museum der Moderne (
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)
atop
Mönchsberg's cliffs.
» Salzwelten (
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)
near Hallein, a cavernous salt mine that once filled Salzburg's
princely coffers with 'white gold'.
