Austria Group Tour: Salzburg

Salzburg: Part 3 of 4 : 24 September 2016

Our time is Salzburg was very short. We left Hallstatt in the morning and stopped in Salzburg for about six hours in which time we had a walking tour of the city, and time to wander around on our own. Salzburg is the "Sound of Music" city, even though the story is an American invention that was foreign to Austrians for a long time. The tourism industry in Vienna has since capitalized on the film with official "Sound of Music tours". I haven't seen the movie since middle school, so I can't say exactly what happens in different places, but some of these pictures should look familiar to you if you've seen the movie. 

Carli in Salzburg, right before we lost our tour group and had to run around trying to find them again. 

Salzburg translates to Salt-town. For much of Austria's history, it's wealth came from exporting salt. We figured it was appropriate to have a salted pretzel.

We randomly found this Rotary International sign.

I like this picture because it is one of the smallest buildings in Salzburg, and it's easy to miss. In the center of most European cities there is no space left unused. This building was built in the 6 feet between two existing buildings. 

Salzburg is the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and if we had had more time in the city, we may have toured some Mozart museums, or his birth house.

Hellbrunn Palace & Trick Fountains:

Hellbrunn Palace is a summer palace commissioned by Salzburg's prince-archbishop Markus Sittikus. It is built in a Renaissance style and was built for the purpose of entertaining guests. It is a piece of engineering genius because of the water works, trick fountains, and water powered puppet shows. These pictures don't do it justice. 

If you look closely, you can see water coming out of the antlers of the deer.

Carli has turned into quite the photographer. While I was playing frisbee, she was in the flower gardens taking pictures.

Sound of Music Gazebo

From Salzburg, we made our way to Dorfgastein, which is right in the middle of the Austrian Alps. I'll write about Dorfgastein in part 4.