The Marionette Museum is located cellars of the world famous Hohensalzburg Fortress. This unique museum contains many historic marionettes from the well known Salzburg Marionette...

The Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg is spectacularly situated on the site of the former Café Winkler which, for many years, housed the Salzburg casino. After...

The intriguing Wasser Museum, on the Münchsberg, was founded by two former Salzburg Waterworks employees who had between them collected a huge number of items...

The Blasiuskirche or Bürgerspitalskirche is an early gothic church which was formerly the chapel of a 14th century hospital, the Bürgerspital, built by Prince Archbishop...

The Getreidegasse, which has been a major thoroughfare since Roman times, is Salzburg’s premier shopping street. But, besides the expensive boutiques and elegant hotels, the...

Szene, which was founded in 1969, is Salzburg’s contemporary performing arts, music and dance theatre. Over the years Szene grew to be a diverse contemporary...

The Spielzeug Museum, which opened in 1978, is situated in the historic Bürgerspital. The collection consists of toys from the last 250 years; dolls houses,...

The Museum Carolino Augusteum is dedicated history of the city and province of Salzburg. It was founded in 1834 and named after the widow of...

Salzburg’s Haus der Natur is housed in the former Ursuline Convent. It contains an extensive range of live exhibits and is especially noted for its...

The first MönchsbergAufzug, which connected the northern part of the Aldstadt to the top of the Mönchsberg, was opened in 1890 but subsequently replaced in...

The 131 metre long, 13 metre wide Siegmundstor tunnel is one of the most amazing feats of 18th civil century engineering. The tunnel, constructed between...

The Hofmarstallschwemme, formerly a place for watering and washing horses, built Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and rebuilt by Prince Archbishop Firmian in 1732, stands...

The Markuskirche stands on the site of the former Ursuline Church which was destroyed on the 16th of July 1669 by a rock fall from...

The brewery and tavern at the Mülln monastery in Salzburg have been in existence since 1621. The monastery was built for the Augustinians in Mülln,...

Miracles Wax Museum, which can be found next door to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birthplace, is devoted to an evocation of Salzburg in the year 1791...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in the house at Getreidegasse 9, where his family lived on the third floor, on January 27, 1756. The house...

The University Church was constructed more than seventy years after the founding of the Benedictine University, in 1623, by the distinguished Baroque architect Johann Bernhard...

The Großes Festspielhaus was designed by the architect Clemens Holzmeister. Work began in 1956, when 55,000 cubic meters of stone were blasted from the side...

The former Kleines Festspielhaus (Small Festival Hall), which also contains the Faistauer Foyer and the Karl-Böhm-Saal, has been converted since 2003 into the House for...

The present Rathaus was built under the orders of Markus Sittikus on the site of much older remains going back at least to the 12th...