Salzburg and Surroundings

Salzburg and Surroundings

Discover Salzburg and the surrounding area Excursion destinations for connoisseurs and slow travelers. A stroll through the Getreidegasse is best done in the early morning. Then you can enjoy the traditional shops of the city in peace. Treat yourself to a coffee in one of the Salzburg coffee houses. We can recommend the Café Tomaselli near the cathedral or the Café Bazar on the other bank of the Salzach. The cathedral quarter with its museums is worth a visit. Just like the cathedral. A tip: visit the Salzburg Heimatwerk and have a Salzburg dirndl tailored to you. The Hohensalzburg Fortress is worth seeing. The easiest way to get there is by elevator. Also nearby is the Sankt Peter cemetery, where the graves tell stories of people from Salzburg.

The area around Salzburg also offers interesting excursion destinations. Check out the open air museum. There you can walk through Salzburg's farming villages on foot. Drive out to Anthering and hike to the mill, where flour is still ground today. Enjoy the fish specialties at Grüll. Maybe you would like to try white caviar there? Take a trip to Obernberg, the place where the Christmas song "Silent Night, Holy Night" was premiered? There is a lot to discover in and around Salzburg Austria. Take your time and enjoy your stay.

Tip:: You can stay in Salzburg in these hotels.

Discover Salzburg's mysterious sides

Salzburg insider tip - Night watchman hike Salzburg Salzburg is a city with many faces. We found that out in the city on the Salzach. There is the Salzburg Mozart, the Salzburg of the Prince-Bishops and the Salzburg of Getreidegasse and Linzer Gasse. But there is also Salzburg, where you can go deeper ...

Schloss Leopoldskron and The Sound of Music

Leopoldskron Castle in Salzburg We have known Leopoldskron Castle for several years. So far we have only seen it on city tours in the footsteps of the musical The Sound of Music from the other side of the lake. One of the reasons was that until two years ago the castle was used for seminars and ...

Salzburg shops with tradition

Shopping in Salzburg: Traditional shops and hidden treasures We went shopping in Salzburg and discovered Salzburg shops that have been around for centuries. Shopping in Salzburg is fun. But it is also more than that. Traditional Salzburg shops tell stories from the old Salzburg region and from Austria. Wooden carts once rattled across...

Spend the night in the old forge near Anthering near Salzburg

The Hotel Hammerschmiede Anthering near Salzburg Hotel Hammerschmiede Anthering is classified as a Naturidyll Hotel. This fits perfectly. There's nothing around the hotel but forest and a stream that flows right next to the forge. We are immediately impressed by the location of the hotel. Only about 15 minutes ...

Funky Africa in Salzburg - food as in South Africa

In the Afro Cafe in Salzburg you can eat like in South Africa. Eat like in South Africa, that's what I wanted for a long time. Every now and then I feel a longing for the countries that I have traveled to in my life. Habits build up, friendships are made that last for years ...

The Trapp family Salzburg - the real story

Our research as travel bloggers about the von Trapp family in Salzburg took us to various places. In the USA we visited the Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont. There we learned a lot about the family's life after their escape from Austria. In Salzburg we explored the family's surroundings and...

Where can you eat well in Salzburg restaurants?

Salzburg insider tips for food As travel bloggers in our gourmet travel blog and for slow travel, we always come to Salzburg to discover new things and see old things again. As Salzburg is only an hour away from us, this is often the case. On every visit, we try a...

Salzburg Sightseeing near Salzburg

Salzburg Insider Tips With these Salzburg Insider Tips you can make your Salzburg city trip an experience that not everyone has. The city of Mozart on the Salzach tells stories. These are varied. Exciting. Entertaining. Exciting. Relaxing. Fascinating. Interesting. I could continue the list indefinitely. But actually Salzburg can be ...

to discover Salzburg culinary sides

Salzburg Eating and drinking at the eat & meet festival Salzburg in Austria is not only worth a visit because of its location. It is worth taking a closer look behind the scenes of the city of Mozart. Salzburg You have to know food and drink. That's why we were on the occasion of the eat and meet ...

From fish lobster and caviar

Of fish, lobster and caviar He is Austria's only producer of caviar: Walter Grüll, who runs his sturgeon farm in Grödig in the Salzburg region. And that's not all! The caviar that he breeds - alongside fish, lobster and oysters - is not just any type of caviar, but white caviar and thus the most expensive...

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Source: Salzburg and surrounding area excursion destinations: On-site research. We partly financed this research ourselves. Other information is based on invitations to press trips, for which we are very grateful. However, our opinions remain, as always, our own.

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