Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Idomeneo
(K.366). Emanuel Schikaneder, a close friend of Mozart and the librettist of
The
Magic Flute,
was a regular guest here. An audio guide accompanies your visit, serenading
you with opera excerpts. Alongside family portraits and documents, you'll find Mozart's
original fortepiano.
Under the same roof and included in your ticket is the
Mozart Ton-und Filmmuseum
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, a film and music archive of interest to the ultra-enthusiast, with
some 25,000 audiovisual recordings.
Residenzplatz
With its horse-drawn carriages, palace and street entertainers, this stately baroque square
is the Salzburg of a thousand postcards. Its centrepiece is the
Residenzbrunnen
, an
enormous marble fountain ringed by four water-spouting horses and topped by a conch
shell-bearing Triton. The plaza is the late-16th-century vision of Prince-Archbishop Wolf
Dietrich von Raitenau who, inspired by Rome, enlisted Italian architect Vincenzo
Scamozzi.
SQUARE
Stiftskirche St Peter
(St Peter's Abbey Church; St Peter Bezirk 1-2; church 8.30am-noon & 2.30-6.30pm,
cemetery 6.30am-7pm daily)
A Frankish missionary named Rupert founded this abbey
church and monastery in around 700, making it the oldest in the German-speaking world.
Though a vaulted Romanesque portal remains, today's church is overwhelmingly baroque,
with rococo stucco, statues - including one of archangel Michael shoving a crucifix
through the throat of a goaty demon - and striking altar paintings by Martin Johann Sch-
midt.
Take a stroll around the
cemetery
, where the graves are mini works of art with their in-
tricate stonework and filigree wrought-iron crosses. Composer Michael Haydn
(1737-1806), opera singer Richard Mayr (1877-1935) and renowned Salzburg confec-
tioner Paul Fürst (1856-1941) lie buried here; the last is watched over by skull- bearing
cherubs.
The cemetery is home to the
catacombs
, cavelike chapels and crypts hewn out of the
Mönchsberg cliff face.
CHURCH
Schloss Mirabell
PALACE
