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.
Sachertorte from Austria Here I say "typically Austria". There is the Hotel Sacher both in Vienna and in Salzburg in the Salzburger Land. The Sachertorte is served in both. To complicate things, the Sachertorte is also available in the Imperial and Royal Court Confectionery Demel. An intriguing story of how...
Coffee & culture in a cafe in Salzburg As soon as you step in, you know that Austrian culture is in charge here - a cafe in Salzburg. However, not every cafe in Salzburg meets expectations. There are cafe pastry shops that have nothing to do with Austrian coffee houses. You ...
In Salzburg, music is in the air at events in Salzburg During a stroll through Salzburg and a tour through the Salzburger Land, it quickly becomes clear what an important role music and world-famous musicians play in the Austrian city. Again and again you come across the names of classical composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz ...
As we have already learned on our previous visits to Salzburg, you can eat excellently in the Mozart city in Austria, be it in traditional restaurants or in inns where something extraordinary is served, such as the Salzburg specialties in the Weiserhof, which follow Cooked 200 year old recipes ...
Coffee roastery Salzburg in the 220 Grad Rösthaus At the eat and meet festival in Salzburg, restaurants, cafes and shops present their specialties - a festival for connoisseurs in Austria. We also visited the Salzburg coffee roastery in the 220 Grad Rösthaus and Cafe in Chiemseegasse 5, which is a bit away from the hustle and bustle in ...
Flour is still ground in the Anthering mill. What sounds a bit pompous in the title is actually true at the grain mill in Anthering near Salzburg. To this day, the water from the torrent in front of the house drives the grinder at the Fuchsmühle in Salzburger Land. The Achartinger Bach provides the background noise for our welcome ...
Staying centrally in Salzburg at the Hotel am Mirabellplatz Petar and I love staying in hotels that tell stories. Especially in cities that are full of history. Salzburg is such a city in which you can find a different piece of history from the Salzburg region practically on every corner ...
Right next to the Cafe Bazar on the north bank of the Salzach is one of the luxury hotels in the Mozart city with style and tradition: the Hotel Sacher Salzburg. The moneyed aristocracy feel just as comfortable here as the nobility and celebrities from politics, business and art. The guests of the luxury hotel appreciate the ambience, the surroundings ...
Experience Christmas in Salzburg If you want to experience Christmas in Salzburg, you should allow yourself enough time. Because the city of Mozart offers numerous possibilities. For example, you can visit one of the many Christmas markets that we present in our articles. In addition, at Christmas Salzburg offers the opportunity to taste the excellent cuisine of ...
Monastery fasting Austria in the Pallottiner Schlössl in Salzburg (advertisement) The Pallottiner Schlössl in Salzburg is a real insider tip. We are here to find out more about monastic fasting in Austria. Fasting in the monastery with the Pallottines means experiencing nature and the city from an extraordinary perspective. The Pallottine Monastery is on ...
Monika Fuchs and Petar Fuchs are the authors and publishers of the Food and Slow Travel blog
TravelWorldOnline. They have been publishing this blog since 2005. TravelWorldOnline has been online since 2001. Their topics are
trips to Savor,
wine tourism worldwide and
slow travel. During her studies Monika Fuchs spent some time in North America, where she - partly together with Petar Fuchs - traveled to the USA and Canada and spent a research year in British Columbia. This intensified her thirst for knowledge, which she satisfied for 6 years as an adventure guide for Rotel Tours and then for 11 years as a tour guide for Studiosus Reisen around the world. She was constantly expanding her travel regions, but curiosity still gnawed at her: "What's beyond the horizon? What else is there to discover in this city? Which people are interesting here? What do they eat in this region?" As a freelance travel journalist (her articles have appeared in DIE ZEIT, 360° Canada, 360° USA, etc.), she is now looking for answers to these questions as a travel writer and travel blogger in many countries around the world. Petar Fuchs produces the videos on this blog as well as on YouTube. Monika Fuchs from TravelWorldOnline is among Germany's top 50 bloggers in 2021. Find more
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