Getting There Centrally-located Salzburg is easily reached by rail from almost any point in Europe. Munich is a mere 2 hours away, Vienna about 3. From Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Amsterdam, or Rome, a bit less than a day’s journey will bring you to Salzburg; if you prefer to wake up there, sleeper services are available [...]

In the end, though, Salzburg always comes down to music. Of the city’s many and famed festivals, the best-known are the 6-week Salzburger Festspiele which runs from late July to early September, and the Mozart Week sponsored each January by the International Mozarteum Foundation, a Salzburg organization which also puts on many individual concerts and [...]

Other small museums and galleries of note include the Dom’s own Cathedral Museum, whose Art and Rarities Collection presents some extraordinary items from the city’s long and important ecclesiastical history. There is also the Civic Hospital’s Toy Museum; the Galerie der Stadt Salzburg (Salzburg Art Gallery); and of course, the two Mozart houses. Of these, [...]

The Romans founded a settlement here and named the place Juvavum but it became best known for its brisk trade in salt from the nearby Dürnberg mines, and Salzburg was the name that stuck. In time an even brisker trade would be conducted by men in red robes, as the town became and remained a [...]

Few sights in Europe are so dramatic as your first glimpse of the fortress castle of Salzburg, looming high above the city with the blue-green foothills of the Alps as a backdrop. Known as the Hohensalzburg, the massive compound — built from the 11th century onward as an endless series of additions to an archbishop’s [...]