Salzburg, Austrian Alps Travel Guide
If you love discovering new land and music, there is no reason that you do not know Salzburg. It is a city in central Austrian with a great many of beautiful scene where the talented Mozart who composed the masterpieces was born. Dreaming spires, green hills and romantic gardens are the city′s attractions which are loved by millions of visitors from all over the Word. If you have seen the movie The Sound of Music, you might be lost in the world of Salzbulg. Walking along the Salzach River, or climbing up to the Hohensalzburg fortress which looms over the city, you will feel the soul of Mozart’s hometown.
Only smaller than Vienna, Graz and Linze, Salzburg is quite large and is the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. Its "Old Town", with its world famous baroque architecture, is one of the best-preserved city centers in the German-speaking world and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Many visitors when travelling to Salzbarg wonder about the origin of this beautiful land. Actually, this name originated from the barges carrying salt on the Salzach River, and it literally means “salt castle”.
This city will help you have chance to live in the historical atmosphere. It can be regarded as the oldest and most important cultural and spiritual centre in present-day Austria. Of Austria's present-day lands, Salzburg is the unique land to have been ruled as
an independent state by a prince-archbishop and it is the only one of the many spiritual principalities of the Holy Roman Empire still to exist as an independent land.
If you are hunger for art and music, this Ausstrian city will be the ideal place for you to travel. Salzburg is a multicultural land. The great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the symbol of the classical musical tradition. This tradition is still maintained in the Mozarteum University and in the equally world-renowned Salzburg Festival. Every year, thousand of people who love art and culture gather in this festival to satisfy their hobby. It is the music that makes this festival well known all over the world. Additionally, one of the most important annual attractions is of course the performance on the Cathedral Square of the mystery play "Jedermann" (Everyman) against the overwhelming background of Salzburg Cathedral.
After the hardworking day in your crowded city, you want to take away to relax and refresh yourself? Don not hesitates to spend your time with your friend or your family in the coutryside of Salzburg. You will not be let down with the Palace of Mirabell with its wide gardens full of flowers; the palace of Leapoldskron 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.
To truly enjoy this city, you should travel by foot. Renting a bike is another excelent option. Salzburg has over 100km of bike paths, and using this mode of transportation is often faster than bus car or foot. Therefore, the quiet and peace in Salzburg is the common like of any people who have come there, you yourself should try to have your own felling about this music land.
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