SAlzburg

Hugo von Hoffmannsthal once described Salzburg as "the heart within the heart of Europe". This is where tradition, progress, history and futurology meet.

Designated by Unesco as a World Heritage Site, the home of the Festival has palaces, baroque architecture and magnificent sacred buildings to offer. Archiepiscopal splendor is omnipresent, baroque domes and pediments dominate the cityscape with the white fortress towering above as if it had always stood up on the Mönchsberg. Salzburg owes its charm to the deeply rooted combination of architecture and landscape. The largely preserved historic city center is a closed ensemble surrounded by the city's mountains and divided by the Salzach River. Searching for traces of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, strolling through the narrow streets, sitting in one of the numerous coffee houses or exploring the museums are just some of the endless opportunities available in Salzburg. The linear design of the University of Salzburg's Department of Natural Sciences is the modern counterpart to the romantic Old City. 

SALZBURGERLAND

It is worth to spend a day for a trip to the Hellbrunn trick fountains, the National Park Hohe Tauern or the Hallein salt mines or Burg Hohenwerfen. The Salzburg part of the Salzkammergut includes the pretty village of Fuschl, the town of St. Gilgen and the village Strobl near the Schafbergbahn. In the south, you will find access to the spectacular Großglockner Hochalpenstraße, the city of Zell am See and the Alpine ressorts of Bad Gastein in the Gasteinertal and Radstadt as well as the impressive waterfalls of Krimml.

North of Salzburg, the town of Oberndorf makes a good day-trip destination: It was in Oberndorf where the Christmas carol "Silent Night" was written in 1818. Another day-trip would go to Großgmain, which has an open-air folk museum on traditional rural life. The south of the province with towns like Obertauern or Saalbach-Hinterglemm has some of Austria's best areas for skiing. For remote days in the Alps explore the Lungau and villages like St. Michael.