Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Salzburg, Austria

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 11.2 km
Ascend 852 m
Descend 807 m

Experience Salzburg in Austria in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in SalzburgIndividual Sights in Salzburg

Sight 1: Herz Jesu Heim Kirche

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Herz Jesu Heim Kirche Arne Müseler / www.arne-mueseler.de / CC BY-SA 3.0 at

The Sacred Heart Asylum Church is structurally integrated into the Sacred Heart Home at Hübnergasse No. 5–7 in the Riedenburg district of the municipality of Salzburg. The Roman Catholic Church of the Cooperative of the Daughters of Christian Love of St. Vincent de Paul, dedicated to the Heart of Jesus, belongs to the Salzburg City Deanery of the Archdiocese of Salzburg. The church is a listed building (list entry).

Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Asylkirche (DE)

973 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Amalie-Redlich-Turm

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The water tower on the Mönchsberg is a tower built in 1891-1892 on the Mönchsberg near Salzburg.

Wikipedia: Wasserturm Mönchsberg (DE)

319 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: St. Blasiuskirche

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St. Blasiuskirche Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The former Bürgerspitalkirche and today's Roman Catholic parish church of St. Blasius is located in Salzburg directly on the Mönchsberg between the western end of Getreidegasse and the old Gstättentor in the old town. It was built as a hospital church. Together with the Holy Cross Minster in Schwäbisch Gmünd, it is the oldest hall church in southern Germany. The church is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.

Wikipedia: Bürgerspitalkirche St. Blasius (DE)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Spielzeugmuseum

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Spielzeugmuseum Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Salzburg Toy Museum is located in Salzburg in the 16th century building of the historic Bürgerspital next to the Bürgerspitalkirche St. Blasius.

Wikipedia: Salzburger Spielzeugmuseum (DE)

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Großes Festspielhaus

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The Großes Festspielhaus, in its current form, was designed by architect Clemens Holzmeister in 1956 for the Salzburg Festival in Austria. It was inaugurated on 26 July 1960 with a performance of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier conducted by Herbert von Karajan, who also worked with Holzmeister on aspects of the building's design. The Large Festival House includes office space and tunneling into the Mönchsberg as well as a 2,179-seat performance space adaptable for both scenic and non-scenic events and acoustically scalable down for piano and song recitals. The stage is one of the widest in the world, at 100 metres (330 ft). The auditorium is square. Access from the street to the lobby is through five bronze doors, above which is inscribed a Latin motto by Thomas Michels: SACRA CAMENAE DOMUS / CONCITIS CARMINE PATET / QUO NOS ATTONITOS / NUMEN AD AURAS FERAT.

Wikipedia: Großes Festspielhaus (EN)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Felsenreitschule

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Felsenreitschule Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Felsenreitschule is a theatre in Salzburg, Austria and a venue of the Salzburg Festival.

Wikipedia: Felsenreitschule (EN)

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Haus für Mozart

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Haus für Mozart Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Haus für Mozart, or House for Mozart, is a 1,500-seat theatre of the Salzburg Festival in the city of that name in Austria. It was established in 1925 when horse stables were converted into a venue for the mystery plays that were a main facet of the five-year-old festival, becoming the festival's first dedicated performance space, its Festspielhaus. This name it retained through three rebuildings until, in 1960, the larger Neues Festspielhaus opened next door, whereupon it took the name Altes Festspielhaus, or Old Festival-House. But three seasons later, to end confusion in the minds of visitors unaware of the history, both theatres were renamed for their sizes, and the smaller was now the Kleines Festspielhaus. For forty-two seasons, through 2004, the nomenclature was settled. Then the theater was closed for its fourth gutting and reconstruction. It gained its current name upon reopening in 2006 as the festival's principal theatre for Mozart and Rossini operas as well as Baroque stageworks.

Wikipedia: Haus für Mozart (EN)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum

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The Rupertinum is a collection of modern and contemporary art in Salzburg's Old Town and became part of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in 2004.

Wikipedia: Rupertinum (DE)

77 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Franziskaner Kirche

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The Franciscan Church is one of the oldest churches in Salzburg, Austria. The church is located at the intersection of Franziskanergasse and Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse opposite the Franciscan Friary in the Altstadt section of the city. The first church on this site was erected in the eighth century. Between 1408 and 1450, a Gothic choir replaced the Romanesque choir. A slender Gothic tower was added between 1468 and 1498. The church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and served as the parish church until 1635. It was ceded to the Franciscan Order in 1642. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach redesigned the church interior in the baroque style in the eighteenth century.

Wikipedia: Franciscan Church, Salzburg (EN), Website

127 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: DomQuartier

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The DomQuartier Salzburg is a museum complex in the city of Salzburg that has existed in this form since 2014. It is a conceptual consolidation and display of buildings as well as secular and sacred art collections around Salzburg Cathedral and Cathedral Square.

Wikipedia: DomQuartier Salzburg (DE), Website

158 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Salzburg Cathedral

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Salzburg Cathedral is the seventeenth-century Baroque cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg in the city of Salzburg, Austria, dedicated to Saint Rupert and Saint Vergilius. Saint Rupert founded the church in 774 on the remnants of a Roman town, and the cathedral was rebuilt in 1181 after a fire. In the seventeenth century, the cathedral was completely rebuilt in the Baroque style under Prince-Bishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau to its present appearance. Salzburg Cathedral still contains the baptismal font in which composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptized.

Wikipedia: Salzburg Cathedral (EN), Website

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Panorama Museum

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The Panorama Museum Salzburg is part of the Salzburg Museum and is located in the New Residence in Salzburg's Old Town. It mainly houses the circular panorama painting with the motif of Salzburg and the surrounding area by the landscape painter Johann Michael Sattler and his colleagues Friedrich Loos (landscape) and Johann Joseph Schindler.

Wikipedia: Panorama Museum Salzburg (DE)

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Residenzbrunnen

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Residenzplatz is a large, stately square in the historic centre (Altstadt) of Salzburg in Austria. Originally named Hauptplatz, it is now named after the Alte Residenz of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg. It is one of the city's most popular places to visit.

Wikipedia: Residenzplatz (EN)

31 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Michaelskirche

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The Roman Catholic St. Michael's Church, a branch church in honour of the Archangel Michael, belongs to St. Peter's Abbey and is the oldest church in the city of Salzburg that still exists today. It is located between the Waagplatz and the Residenzplatz in Salzburg's old town.Before the middle of the 17th century, the long transverse building on the east side of the church was a so-called Schranne, a common point of sale, here the baker for bread. The Trakl family later lived on the first floor, Georg Trakl spent his childhood and youth here, while his father Tobias Trakl ran an ironmongery shop on the ground floor. Since 1925, the property with the address Waagplatz 3 has been used as a café.

Wikipedia: Michaelskirche (Salzburg) (DE)

97 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Mozart Denkmal

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Mozartplatz, formerly known as Michaelsplatz, is a square in the historic centre of Salzburg in Austria. In the centre of the square is a statue in memory of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born in the city and after whom the square is now named.

Wikipedia: Mozartplatz (EN)

399 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Mozart's Birthplace

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Mozart's birthplace is the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at No. 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, Austria. The Mozart family resided on the third floor from 1747 to 1773. Mozart himself was born here on 27 January 1756. He was the seventh child of Leopold Mozart, who was a musician of the Salzburg Royal Chamber.

Wikipedia: Mozart's birthplace (EN), Website

139 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Kollegienkirche

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The Kollegienkirche in Salzburg, Austria, is the church of the University of Salzburg. It was built in Baroque style by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Salzburg. It is now both the parish church of people connected to the university and a venue of the Salzburg Festival.

Wikipedia: Kollegienkirche, Salzburg (EN)

135 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Gurken

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Gurken Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

Cucumbers is a work of art consisting of five individual sculptures in the Wilhelm-Furtwängler-Garten in the old town of Salzburg. It was created as part of the "Salzburg Art Project" in 2011 by the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.

Wikipedia: Gurken (Salzburg) (DE)

587 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: Haus der Natur

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The Haus der Natur is a natural history and technical museum in Salzburg, Austria.

Wikipedia: Haus der Natur Salzburg (DE), Website

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Markuskirche

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Markuskirche Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

St. Mark's Church is located in Gstättengasse on Ursulinenplatz in Salzburg's old town. The patronage is on St. Mark's Day. Since it was the monastery church of the Ursulines until 1957, it is also popularly called the Ursuline Church. The Roman Catholic Baroque church was made available to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic community in 1999.

Wikipedia: Markuskirche (Salzburg) (DE)

733 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 21: Kurgarten

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The Kurgarten in the city of Salzburg is a park-like garden in the district of Neustadt (Andräviertel). It adjoins the famous Mirabell Gardens to the north. The English landscape garden is also known for its exotic old trees.

Wikipedia: Kurgarten (Salzburg) (DE)

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Zwergelgarten

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The Dwarf Garden is part of the Mirabell Gardens and was originally called Pigatlgarten in Salzburg, later also Pagodngarten. As far as is known, it is the oldest dwarf garden in Europe. The dwarfs were created after 1690, like essentially the entire Mirabell Gardens, according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.

Wikipedia: Salzburger Zwergelgarten (DE), Url

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 23: Mirabellgarten

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The Mirabell Gardens are the gardens of Mirabell Palace in the city of Salzburg in Austria, in the Right Old Town. It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in the city. It includes the large garden parterre with the adjacent lime grove to the south the small garden parterre with the bosquet adjoining to the south the theatre garden (Heckentheater) the dwarf garden the Bastion Garden (Water Bastion) the Orangery and the Rose Garden

Wikipedia: Mirabellgarten (DE)

335 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Salzburg State Theatre

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The Salzburg State Theatre is a theatre situated in Salzburg, Austria, a venue for opera, theatre, and dance, contemporary and older works, with resident companies of actors, singers and dancers. The theatre presents approximately 400 performances each season, from September to June. The main theatre building is located next to the Mirabell Gardens and seats an audience of 707. The staff consists of 340 people originating from 35 different countries.

Wikipedia: Salzburger Landestheater (EN), Website

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: Lichtobjekt Vision

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Beyond Recall is an art installation above the bridgeheads of the Staatsbrücke in the old town of Salzburg. The artwork was created as part of the "Salzburg Art Project" in 2011 by the Austrian art professor and light installation artist Brigitte Kowanz. Since 2013, the work has been part of the Würth Collection.

Wikipedia: Beyond Recall (Salzburg) (DE)

448 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Dreifaltigkeitskirche

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The Holy Trinity Church is a Roman Catholic church in Salzburg, Austria. It was designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Church, Salzburg (EN)

372 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 27: Sebastianskirche

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The Roman Catholic Sebastian Church is a baroque church in Salzburg an der Linzer Gasse, which belongs to the inner right city or Neustadt. The church is structurally connected to the Sebastian cemetery and the St. Sebastian Bruderhaus. The patronal feast will be celebrated on January 20, Sebastiani.

Wikipedia: Sebastianskirche (Salzburg) (DE)

1568 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 28: Kapuzinerberg

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Kapuzinerberg is a hill on the eastern bank of the Salzach river in the city of Salzburg in Austria, which rises to an elevation of 640 metres (2,100 ft). It is located to the south of Salzburg's historic city centre, and forms part of the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Wikipedia: Kapuzinerberg (EN)

1244 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 29: St. Johanneskirche am Imberg

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St. Johanneskirche am Imberg Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Roman Catholic Imberg Church is elevated above the Steingasse at the foot of the Kapuzinerberg or below the Capuchin Monastery in the right old town of Salzburg in Austria.

Wikipedia: Imbergkirche (DE)

1818 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 30: Schloss Fürberg

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Schloss Fürberg

Fürberg Castle, which was also called Feyertagsstöckl after the Bavarian-Salzburg family Feyertag von Oberhausen, is located at the foot of the Kapuzinerberg in Salzburg at the end of Pausingerstraße, formerly Fürbergstraße. The estate also includes a farm and a chapel, which, like the main building, is decorated with valuable stained glass.

Wikipedia: Schloss Fürberg (DE)

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