SALZBURG CITY
In sunshine, Salzburg radiates the charm of the south
Absolutely out of the ordinary and the preserve of sportier visitors, Salzburg can be explored in the form of a guided tour with the „ Sportsbrothers“, which will also lead you over the city’ s rooftops.( www. salzburg-sightrunning. at) Of course, if you prefer a more laid-back form of sightseeing, you will enjoy the hop-on-hop-off-bus or a nostalgic horse-drawn carriage ride. Mainly in summer, such a lively ambiance full of activity prevails in the historic district that it‘ s hardly possible to get a sense of the more peaceful centuries past. On dreary autumn or cold winter days, it‘ s easier to imagine the time of radical architectural change in this city. In Salzburg‘ s historic district, every house and every square breathes history. The princearchbishops Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Markus Sittikus, Paris Lodron, and Guidobald Graf von Thun have made the greatest impression on this cityscape. If you want to conquer the city by car, you will generally end up in one of the garages in the city mountains – both of the Mönchsberg garages or the Linzergasse garage located on the Kapuzinerberg release pedestrians from darkness out into the light of the city. The Mönchsberg garages follow on the heels of a World War II tradition- when the caverns of the mountain served as bomb shelters. Today, these same cavities are incredibly useful for guests who arrive by car and then wish to acquainted themselves with the sights of Salzburg on foot. Whether you enter the center of Salzburg via the courtyard of the medieval Bürgerspital hospital 19 or the Toskaninihof: the festival halls 17, the Collegiate Church 16, University Square, the Horse Pond, the Getreidegasse- each of these many,
Cooling off, taking a break: At one time, horses were washed in the Kapitelschwemme
often admired places offers a wonderful perspective on Salzburg. Since 1997, the historic district of Salzburg has been a World Heritage Site, unique, intact, and historically genuine. The favorable location of the city with its lifeline, the Salzach, made Salzburg a connection between south and north early on, also bringing together the Italian and
Germanic cultures. The Celts and the Romans had already discovered the advantages of a settlement here. Today, it represents a blend and interaction of various cultural artifacts, of architecture and nature, of restaurants and a variety of shops, and of places of entertainment and contemplative retreat. The material alone doesn’ t make for the uniqueness of this World Heritage site; it is also the immaterial and the way of life of the people who live here as well as the living and breathing history, which dates back to founding fathers Rupert and Virgil in the 7th century.
Cathedral- The best of Early Baroque Statues of both bishops flank the entrance to Salzburg Cathedral 7 with its three bronze portals, which address the spiritual virtues „ faith“, „ love“, and „ hope“. Nothing remains of the Virgilesque building. Recurrent fires devastated the medieval city and the subsequent cathedrals. The mighty domed structure of today, 99 meters long and 79 meters high, is a work of architect Santino Solari from 1614 – 1628, and is considered the largest Early Baroque structure north of the Alps. In the cathedral are eleven altars, five organs, seven bells, and a bronze baptismal font atop lion figures, which has been preserved from the previous building of the 12th century. Traces of an even older history – of even older buildings and from Roman times- can be found in the Cathedral Excavation Museum- whose entrance is located beneath the northern archways of the cathedral- and in the crypt, which for many years has also housed more modern items, namely a contemporary dance macabre by