Mozart’s Home & Much More: Salzburg, Austria
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Salzburg Austria
Salzburg without any doubt captivates all the holidaymakers to the city. This capital city of the Austrian state of Land Salzburg was in the beginning a Celtic settlement. Later with the Romans it was named Juvavum until the the seventh century. After the Romans the town, Juvavum was nothing but ruins . It was around the year 700 when Salzburg was founded by a bishop under the Duke of Bavaria.
The birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the setting for the film The Sound of Music, Salzburg is renowned around the world . There’s much more to Austria’s fourth largest city . Visitors could easily stay for a longer period of time in Salzburg. This baroque gem of a city is located on the Salzach River , and it also enjoys admittance to the northern boundary of the sturdy Alps. Salzburg’s Old Town belongs the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The city got its name from the salt trade and salt mines which surround the city. The salt trade and the toll on salt helped the city get money for the growth of the city and it rose to be an significant center. A fortress was also started to be constructed in 1077 on Festungsberg hill overlooking the city and was expanded over the next centuries. The mightiest fortress of central Europe, a powerful building which sits in a significant position, undoubted Salzburg’s top sight to see and most dominant feature of the city?s view.
In 1816, Salzburg became part of Austria. It was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that many of Salzburg’s houses were built , and many of them can be seen today for example the Salzburg Cathedral, the seventeenth century baroque masterpiece. This cathedral was the place where Mozart was baptized. Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756 and back then he was unappreciated but this changed . His picture can be found all over the city and the world famous Salzburg Festival also deals with some of his work. The house in Getreidegasse 9 was where the Mozarts lived between 1747 and 1773 and here Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name was actually quite a bit more complicated, was born on the 27th of January 1756. If you want to know more about Mozart’s life, you can visit the Mozart’s birthplace.
Besides the attractions in connection with Mozart there are other places to visit including the seventeenth century Mirabell castle. The Baroque masterpiece of Mirabell Palace was initially built as “Schloß Altenau” in 1606. It was a gift for his concubine Salome Alt and most famous for its splendid park .
Besides Mirabell Palace another site to visit is St. Peter’s Abbey and St. Peter’s Cemetery. St. Peter is the oldest monastery in the German-speaking world; some think the oldest continuously active monastery North of the Alps. The graveyard itself is known as one of the most charming graveyards in the world, and plenty of Salzburg’s past aristocratic families rest in peace here which include Mozart’s sister Nannerl.
Being in Salzburg you can buy a Salzburg Card in order to see most attractions for free, to use free public transportation and get some per cent off on diverse Salzburg tours. One of these tours relate to the Oscar-winning film, The Sound of Music. The Sound of Music Tours started when first visitors came to Salzburg in 1965, briefly after the release of the film, trying to locate the places seen in the film like the lakeside castle or the gazebo.
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