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Christmas in Salzburg is one of the best times of the year to get to know the city of Mozart from its most beautiful sides. Then the city center around the cathedral is magnificently decorated. The city's largest Christmas market is located there. In Glockengasse, beautifully decorated shop windows entice visitors to go on a pre-Christmas shopping spree, where one or the other is sure to find a Christmas present for their loved ones. It's also worth a detour St. Peter's Abbey Cellar, in whose courtyard you can experience the Christmas spirit particularly well.
The city on the Salzach is not only worth a visit in the old town. The Christmas markets at Mirabell Gardens or in Hellbrunn Palace are tempting. Linzerstrasse on the other bank of the Salzach is decorated for Christmas. And there are numerous events that make the Christmas season in Salzburg a special experience.
We can recommend three Christmas markets in Salzburg. Christmas is especially beautiful in this city. Due to its location on the northern edge of the Alps, Salzburg is predestined to spread a Christmas spirit.
When Krampus and Perchten are around at Christmas in Salzburg, all hell breaks loose in the Gnigl district. The rough fellows accompany Saint Nicholas on his way through the Salzburg foothills of the Alps before December 6th.
The most beautiful Salzburg Christmas market for us is the Christmas market in Hellbrunn Palace. In the time before Christmas, a whole forest decorated with thick red Christmas tree balls stands in the courtyard of Hellbrunn Palace in Salzburg.
The Christmas wonderland in the courtyard of the Stiftskeller St. Peter in Salzburg is a real gem. Nowhere can you experience Salzburg Christmas more beautifully than there. Not only that you can eat well in the monastery cellar, there is also Salzburg's most beautiful Christmas tree.
The Salzburg Christmas market on Domplatz is the oldest in the city. The stalls, which smell temptingly of fresh gingerbread, hot mulled wine or apple punch and sausages with cabbage, are grouped around the cathedral on Domplatz and Residenzplatz.
However, none of the Salzburg Christmas markets is as contemplative as the Christmas market at the Hohensalzburg Fortress. He's not as big as the others. In return, he conveys the spirit of Christmas better with his wooden huts in the courtyard of the Hohensalzburg Fortress.
The lyrics of the song Silent Night are not only known in German-speaking countries. In the meantime he has conquered the whole world. There is hardly a country where "Silent Night, Holy Night" doesn't blare out of the loudspeakers around Christmas time.
At Christmas in Salzburg A strange vehicle is on the way. Christmas time in Salzburg in the Salzburger Land. A tractor decorated with fir branches pulls an extraordinary car behind it. A wooden hut is set up on the loading area. Similar to the tractor, it is densely decorated with green fir trees and the front side is emblazoned with the large inscription “Krampusse auf Tour”. Krampuses [...]
How beautiful Salzburg is in Advent can not only be experienced at the city's Christmas markets. The city is so lavishly decorated at Christmas that a simple stroll through the old town or a visit to the restaurant is enough to get you into the Christmas mood.
Silent Night, Holy Night and Salzburg have a lot in common. We found that out in Salzburg: Joseph Mohr, the author of the world's most famous Christmas carol - Silent Night, Holy Night - was born in Salzburg.
