Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Steingasse
On the right bank of the Salzach River, this narrow, cobbled lane was, incredibly, the main
trade route to Italy in medieval times. Look out for the 13th-century
Steintor
gate and the
house of
Joseph Mohr
, who wrote the lyrics to that all-time classic of a carol
Silent
Night
. The street is at its most photogenic in the late morning when sunlight illuminates
its pastel-coloured townhouses.
HISTORIC SITE
Kollegienkirche
(Universitätsplatz; 8am-6pm)
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's grandest baroque
design is this late-17th-century university church, with a striking bowed facade. The high
altar's columns symbolise the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
CHURCH
Pferdeschwemme
(Horse Trough; Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz)
Designed by Fischer von Erlach in 1693, this
is a horse-lover's delight, with rearing equine pin-ups surrounding Michael Bernhard
Mandl's statue of a horse tamer.
PUBLIC ART
Franziskanerkirche
(Franziskanergasse 5; 6.30am-7.30pm)
A real architectural hotchpotch, Salzburg's
Franciscan church has a Romanesque nave, a Gothic choir with rib vaulting and a baroque
marble altar (one of Fischer von Erlach's creations).
CHURCH
Dreifältigkeitskirche
(Church of the Holy Trinity; Dreifaltigkeitsgasse 14; 6.30am-6.30pm)
Baroque master
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach designed this graceful right-bank church, famous for
Johann Michael Rottmayr's dome fresco of the Holy Trinity.
CHURCH
Domgrabungsmuseum
MUSEUM
