Museum der Moderne
This Museum of Modern Art is up on a cliff overlooking the city of Salzburg, Austria. If you don’t feel like walking up (which I didn’t because it was pouring Read More …
Category: Salzburg
Hohensalzburg Fortress
The Festungsbahn going up to the fortress overlooking Salzburg is Austria’s oldest funicular railway that is still in operation. It was built in 1892, and now takes people up from the Read More …
Salzburg State Theatre
While Salzburg is full of impressive and significant places to visit, like the fortress, the cathedral quarter, the festival halls and the two Mozart houses, I must admit that my Read More …
A musical comes home
For nearly two centuries Salzburg’s big tourist draw was Mozart. The great eighteenth century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756 and lived here — when he Read More …
Mozart’s birthplace
This is the house where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756. He lived here for the first seventeen years of his life — when he wasn’t off traveling with Read More …
Guided tour of the Salzburg Festival Halls
The Salzburg Festival is one of the world’s largest and most intensive summer music and drama festivals, with more than two hundred performances packed into six weeks in July and Read More …