Salzburg Trip Report, 24-Hour Interval 5: Sometime Town, Festung Hohensalzburg

DAY 5, Nov 21, 2017

TRAIN TO SALZBURG:

We had called for a taxi at 5.15 am at our Prague hotel together with reached the station yesteryear 5.30.

We waited for the platform position out to hold upward posted, went over together with got into the develop which was already there.

We took the early on morning time develop at 6.05am from Prague to Salzburg. We had bought discounted online ticket from the official Czech railway site together with printed the tickets at home.

The develop terminated at Linz together with nosotros had a connecter inwards 20 minutes. It should bring been slow but our develop started off from Prague 10 minutes late. They kept announcing the delay was because the develop arrived belatedly from abroad! Anyways nosotros had less than 10 minutes at Linz, no fourth dimension to seek out the electronic boards for our develop platform number. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 daughter going the same route was proverb the platform is 6, nosotros but scurried at that topographic point together with yes, it was right.

We got into the develop that was coming from Vienna airdrome together with going onward to Germany. We monitored together with got downward at Salzburg hbf.

A&O Salzburg Hauptbahnhof:

We stayed 2 nights at A&O Salzburg Hauptbahnhof. It's 350 one thousand from the develop station. Room is spacious, clean, the mutual kitchen tin hold upward used for cooking.

We had an early on cheque inwards equally before long equally nosotros landed. There is SPAR supermarket correct at the station. All inwards all a rattling skillful experience.

TRANSPORT CARD:

We bought the 24 hr bill of fare for 3,80 euros from the machine, validated amongst the fourth dimension postage stamp on 1^st use. Buses 1, 3, 5, six all travel to town center. We took i together with got downward at Rathaus. We walked toward the Fortress/Festung Hohensalzburg.

Here's the carry map from the site, amongst relevant places circled

Old Town:

This picturesque urban essence occupies both banks of the River Salzach, which hither emerges from the Salzburg Alps into an expanse of lower nation dominated yesteryear the 1,853-meter Untersberg .

The romantic Old Town is an surface area of narrow medieval streets

With 500 years of independent dominion yesteryear Prince-Archbishops, a medieval Salzburg grew quite wealthy together with total of graceful Baroque architecture. Salzburg’s urban essence centre was lucky plenty to retain its beautiful architecture yesteryear avoiding The xxx Years War together with yesteryear suffering relatively pocket-size harm during WW2.

Salzburg’s Old Town nonetheless holds much of its master copy charm, the hills are rattling much nonetheless hold upward amongst The Sound of Music (The existent Maria lived hither together with the film was also shot here!).

It's also the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,

We reached Domplatz together with entered the cathedral.

Dom zu Salzburg (Salzburg Cathedral):

A prominent edifice thank you lot to its twin 79-meter towers, Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom) was completed inwards 1657 together with is famous for its Italian vogue together with its purpose equally the location of Mozart's baptism.

The building's westward front, facing the Domplatz, has iv colossal marble statues, the outer ones representing Saint Rupert asset a tabular array salt barrel, together with Virgil amongst a church building both, patron saints of the province, piece the inner ones clit Saint Peter amongst keys, together with Saint Paul asset a sword. Statues of apostles equally good equally Moses together with Elijah are farther upward the facade.

Notable features include its iii massive bronze doors amongst their symbols of Faith, Love, together with Hope; the high altar amongst its Resurrection painted inwards 1628; together with the superb frescoes inwards the vaulting.

Nativity scene amongst the fortress...

Salzburg Cathedral (Dom) is yesteryear far the biggest church building inwards Old Town, faces 3 town squares at once, together with is where Mozart was baptized. The master copy Christian parish on the grounds was completed yesteryear Saint Virgil (Bishop from 767-84) together with was nearly one-half the size of the electrical current Cathedral.

The cornerstone for this Cathedral was laid in 1614 (opened 1628).
It is a miracle that the novel Salzburg Cathedral was built at all equally most of Republic of Austria got swept upward inwards Europe’s Catholic versus Protestant 30 Years’ War during the construction. Salzburg was able to rely on its rich tabular array salt production to bring plenty coin to build this massive Church piece most other cities had to scale dorsum on their edifice projects.

Inside the entrance is the bronze baptismal font (1311) amongst Panthera leo statues (1200) where Mozart was baptized.

The most impressive purpose of the interior is the huge 233 pes tall dome which is painted into 2 8 slice sections depicting scenes from the Old Testament to travel amongst murals of Passion of the Christ along the nave.

During WWII a bomb crashed correct through the dome, but luckily didn’t explode.

The church building nonetheless has the working organ from 1703 that Mozart played during 2 years equally the Church’s organist,

We walked toward the funicular Festungbahn

Fortress tin hold upward sighted here

We reached the Kapitelplatz, i time to a greater extent than amongst a dandy stance of the fortress.

Kapitelplatz:

Two contemporary things hither are the giant over-sized chess board, and a 30-foot-tall yellowish orb sculpture (Mozartkugel/ Mozart ball)with a human on exceed called Sphaera.

Sphaera was made inwards 2007 yesteryear creative individual Stephan Balkenhol together with is locally called Mann auf Mozartkugel. Balkenhol is good known for using this same manly individual figure inwards a serial of statues throughout Europe (Mann on Giraffe, Mann on Stump, Mann on Elk). Munich Germany’s urban essence centre has the same manly individual figure from this Salzburg sculpture walking off a steel beam inwards some other of the Balkenhol’s works.

Mozartkugel is a famous confection made of pistachio marzipan, together with nougat, covered amongst dark chocolate created inwards 1890

Continuing through Kapitelplatz Square, is a medieval Horse Bath Fountain (Kapitelschwemme) from 1732 AD which is framed yesteryear 2 lovely trees. It's nether renovation now.

Nowadays the Kapitelschwemme is to a greater extent than of a good together with pond, but dorsum inwards the 1700s it was used yesteryear the Prince-Archbishop to bathe horses. The sloping ramp at its entrance would allow the horses to easily come inwards the H2O together with continue all the agency upward to the Neptune fountain.

Sound of Music film fans volition recognize the Horse Bath equally where Maria together with the kids danced unopen to piece singing ‘My Favorite Things’. The foursquare has fantabulous views of the High Fortress on the hilltop above.

We reached the funicular station together with bought 12 euro tickets which include entry to the fortress. The funicular is the oldest inwards Austria. It has transported visitors upward to the castle since 1892 but inwards those days it was powered yesteryear water. Fortress is accessible yesteryear a pleasant 20-minute walk from the Old Town centre or via this funicular railway from Festungsgasse, riding upward to the castle every x minutes.

Fortress/Festung Hohensalzburg:

Salzburg is dominated yesteryear the picturesque fortress of Hohensalzburg, on the southeastern summit of the Mönchsberg.

AWESOME views all round!

The master copy castle was built inwards 1077, amongst much of what's seen today dating from the early on 1500s.

Puppet museum:

This is a lovely puppet museum

Here's some artillery

Nice models of the fortress together with how the funicular was built...

There are lovely antique furniture

The Royal floor is GREAT; at that topographic point is a divide little entry fee

AWESOME stance from the windows...

We had planned to walk downward to Stift Nonnberg (Maria's Abbey) but it had travel dark together with nosotros injure upward for the day

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Salzburg, Fuschl am see

Our study of the twenty-four hr menses trip to the lovely Salzkammergut (lake region) together with roofing the residual of Salzburg one-time town amongst some Sound of Music sites is here:

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