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.