Wonderful Salzburg - always worth a visit

Salzburg is Austria´s fourth-largest city, but internationally it is probably as wellknown as Vienna. There are of course many reasons for Salzburg´s fame and popularity. Here are some of them:

Salzburg is beautifully located on the banks of the Salzach River, at the northern boundary of the Alps. The closest alpine peak, the 1972 m Untersberg is only a few kilometres away from the city centre.

The mighty fortress Hohensalzburg, high up on a hill, dominates the view of the Altstadt, the "old town",  one of the best-preserved city centres north of the Alps. The Altstadt is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997.   

Kapuzinerberg, on the left, is one of the two smaller mountains that surround the city 

Salzburg is the birthplace of Mozart, a fact that does not go unnoticed in the city, which also hosts the famous Salzburg Festival and the Easter Festival

The Residenzplats with its  fountain   

The Mirabell Palace with its famous gardens was built by Archbishop Wolf Friedrich Raitenau in 1606

Part of the geometrically arranged baroque gardens  

Several scenes of the Sound of Music were shot in the Mirabell Palace gardens

The gardens certainly keep the Mirabell gardeners busy!