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With these Salzburg insider tips you can make your city trip to Salzburg an experience that not everyone has. The Mozart city on the Salzach tells stories. These are varied. Exciting. Entertaining. Exciting. Relaxing. Fascinating. Interesting.
We are on our way in search of the true story of the Trapp family's escape from the National Socialists, not the Hollywood version of the film "The Sound of Music", which made the family world famous.
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 names like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert or Johann Michael Haydn.
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.
Especially in cities that are full of history themselves. Salzburg is such a city where you stumble across a different piece of history from the Salzburger Land in Austria at practically every corner. The Hotel am Mirabellplatz is such a place.
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.
Shopping in Salzburg is fun. But there is more. Salzburg shops with tradition tell stories from the old Salzburg region and Austria. Many of the shops in Mozart's city are reminiscent of life in the past.
