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Salzburg

Salzburg is a city in Austria, near the border with Germany's Bavaria state, with a population of 157,000 (2020). It was the setting for the 1965 movie The Sound of Music, so you may think you know all there is to see in Salzburg if you have seen the movie. Wikivoyage

Population 155,021 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Austria

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Austria
Tourist office · 190 m Tourist Info Mozartplatz

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Salzburg Festival

    July – August

    The Salzburg Festival (German: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer, for five weeks starting in late July, in Salzburg, Austria, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Salzburg); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • Schranne

    1. Monday: closed
    2. Tuesday: closed
    3. Wednesday: closed
    4. Thursday: 05:00–13:00
    5. Friday: closed
    6. Saturday: closed
    7. Sunday: closed

    05:00–13:00

    830 m from the centre

  • Bio-Markt Borromäuspoint

    Familie Mangelberger aus Seekirchen bietet Frisch-, Schnitt- und Reifekäse, sowie Milchprodukte wie Joghurts, Süß- und Sauerrahm oder Topfenaufstriche. Familie Hainz aus Bürmoos findet man Bio-Fleisch- und Wurstwaren vom eigenen Betrieb ohne chemische Zus

    1. Monday: closed
    2. Tuesday: closed
    3. Wednesday: closed
    4. Thursday: closed
    5. Friday: 14:00–18:00
    6. Saturday: closed
    7. Sunday: closed

    14:00–18:00

    1.3 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 57 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Salzburg Hauptbahnhof (S-Bahn) 1.5 km, Salzburg Mülln-Altstadt 1.5 km, Salzburg Hauptbahnhof 1.5 km, Salzburg Parsch 1.7 km, Salzburg Gnigl 1.8 km, Salzburg Aiglhof 2.0 km, Salzburg Aiglhof (S-Bahn) 2.0 km, Ischlerbahnstraße 2.1 km, Salzburg Itzling 2.3 km, Salzburg Itzling (S-Bahn) 2.3 km, Salzburg Sam 2.4 km, Salzburg Aigen 2.5 km, Salzburg Plainbrücke 3.1 km, Salzburg Taxham Europark (S-Bahn) 3.3 km, Salzburg Taxham Europark 3.4 km, Hagenau 3.9 km, Salzburg Süd 4.0 km, Salzburg Kasern 4.5 km, Salzburg Liefering 4.6 km, Bergheim Bahnhof 4.9 km

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