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Fortress Hohensalzburg is a real eye-catcher peaking out high above the baroque towers of the city. The castle in Salzburg is an unmistakable landmark providing the city’s world famous silhouette. Even from afar the visitor is able to appreciate the might of this edifice. Up close the history contained in these powerful walls is almost tangible.
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Haus der Natur and Science Center
The living museum - See with your own eyes tropical coral reefs teeming with life or the grace of movement in cobras and mambas: the beautiful aquarium and reptil zoo are ideal places to find innumerable opportunities to marvel at our natural world and learn from it at the same time. |
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From primeval times into the future - Meet giant dinosaurs from aeons long gone to get a feel of the exotic place our world used to be millions of years ago.
Indulge in a spectacular look into the infinity of space - witness milestones in space travel and share man´s ancient dream of visiting worlds beyond our own.
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Technology, Hands-on - The Science Center is an invitation to put your hands to a wealth of experiments. There are around 80 interactive stations designes to play with, to do your own reserach, to discover, reflect, experiment and build..., in short: to be active and creative in the world of science.
Feel Mozart´s wonderful music with all your body, run turbines to produce electricity, lift your own weight effortlessly on a special lifting platform, build a bridge to walk across - and get addicted to the fascination of doing science with your owm hands. |
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Journey into the human body - How do see, hear or smell? What makes our heart beat? Discover your own body from a totally new perspective...
Nature Adventures - No matter whether you visit the Polar Regions or a tropical rain forest, the rivers of Austria or deserts far away, whether you meet bizarre creatures of the deep sea or marvel at legendary crystals created far inside the Earth -
Nature is the greatest adventure of them.
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The house in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on the January 27, 1756 is now one of the most frequently visited museums in the world
No other place makes the person behind the artist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his music as palpable as his birthplace.
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The Museum der Moderne Salzburg (MdM) consists of two buildings at two spectacular locations:
The MDM Rupertinum in the historic city center: a baroque building for new artistic concepts.
The MDM Mönchsberg over the rooftops of the Old City: modern art in a contemporary setting.
The Rupertinum, located in the historic city center, was first documented in 1350. The "Collegium Rupertinum" served as a school for student priests under Archbishop Paris Lodron. The building was completed in an early baroque style in 1633. Prominently located between the Franciscan and Collegiate Churches, the building served the archdiocese as a seminary for many centuries. |
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The magnificent New Residence on Mozart Square has housed the Salzburg Museum since the summer of 2007. The museum's fully new concept blends valuable objects of art, aesthetic presentations, interesting facts and multimedia installations into a harmonious whole. The Salzburg Museum is living proof that a modern museum can inform and yet at the same time entertain its visitors. |
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Experience the city of Salzburg with a Boat cruise on the Salzach River. From the middle of April throught the middle of October the Cruise Boat ˜Amadeus Salzburg” offers you first class sightseeing-tours: marvel at the city of Mozart from the waterway.
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The spacious park was redecorated around 1730 according to plans by the inspector of the royal gardens, Franz Anton Danreiter, and adapted to the "new" style of the age. The mythical and historical statues date back to the beginning of the 17th century. A statue of Empress Elisabeth, sculpted by Edmund von Hellmer, which had formerly stood in front of the old "Hotel Europe" at the Empress Elisabeth Railway Station (today's central railway station) was placed in the so-called English Park.
In 1612, only a few months after ascending the throne, Salzburg's Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus von Hohenems commissioned a country residence to be built at the foot of the well-watered Hellbrunn Mountain. A lover of Italian art and culture, Markus Sittikus commissioned the famous Cathedral architect, Santino Solari, to design a "villa suburbana", a summer residence matching the elegance and spaciousness of the magnificent Italian architecture with which he was so obsessed. Within a relatively short period of time an architectural masterpiece was created just south of the city that remains one of the most magnificent Renaissance buildings north of the Alps: the Lustschloss ("pleasure palace") of Hellbrunn with its spacious park and its unique Wasserspiele (trick fountains).
Salzburg's Zoo keeping animals, both native and exotic, in an environment close to their natural surroundings has become the hallmark of Salzburg's Zoo. One of the zoo's main goals is to ensure a harmonious balance between the beauty of the local landscape in Hellbrunn and the natural environment of the animals. Special habitats are continually being developed, enabling visitors of all ages to experience the natural balance between flora and fauna. These habitats have been created using natural materials to enable animal communities from similar surroundings to be observed together in captivity.
In der In the new "African Savannah", for example, rhinoceros, antelopes and guinea-fowl co-exist. Other exhibits show the fauna in America or the animals in Eurasia (bears and lynx, chamois, groundhogs and river otters). A visit to Hellbrunn is an educational experience for young and old. Observing familiar local species and creatures from other continents is both entertaining and informative. Take the time to wander through the spacious zoological landscape and experience the life on other, often distant continents. |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about beer can be found out at Stiegl's "Brauwelt".
Curiosities, things worth knowing and lots of other information about beer, the cultural drink, are only available here in Salzburg at the largest exhibition of beers in Europe.
Situated in the oldest and authentically restored part of the brewery building in the part of the city known as Maxglan, to which the Stiegl Brewery moved in 1863, the 'Brauwelt' is one of the most popular trip destinations in Mozart's city. You too can discover the secrets of this Salzburg beer andtogether we can discover Europe's largest exhibition of beer |
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Come along on a lovely ride to the top of the Untersberg mountain in a spacious cabin of our cable car. During your ride, you will have magnificant views of the Rositten Valley and the surrounding mountains. From the cable car station atop the mountain, you can hike to the Geiereck (1805 meters), visit the mountain climbers memorial, or walk to the Salzburg Hochthron mountain (1856 meters). From the summit, you'll be able to see the beautiful Salzburg Lake District, as well as the ice-capped Hohen Tauern mountains. You will also want to visit the Hochalm restaurant and the Zeppezauer house while on the Untersberg.
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The elegant rooms of Klessheim Palace have been used by Salzburg Casino since 1993. Visitors appreciate the juxtaposition of baroque art and modern gambling that gives the casino its special flair.
The casino currently features 5 American roulette tables, 5 Black Jack tables, an Easy Hold'em poker table, 6 poker tables, a tropical stud poker table, 10 easy roulette and 106 slot machines. |
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Aiderbichl Animal Sanctuary
More than 1000 happy animals live on our 14 farms. The original Aiderbichl Estate, founded in 2001, is situated just 20 km outside the city of Salzburg. Its founder, Michael Aufhauser, had a dream: he wanted to create a centre where humans and animals could encounter one another and get to know each other better. Rescued animals, many of them with a very distressing past, have found a new home here in the midst of the beautiful alpine region of Austria. It is a place where we can learn about their lives and discover what can be improved in the treatment of the weaker, whether humans or animals. Here they can forget what has happened to them in the past and can start a new life with us. And for us, with the beauty that surrounds us and the contentment of the residents, it is a place that inspires everyone. |
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Ride the flottila of ships on nearby lakes wolfgangsee, Mondsee, Mattsee and Obertrumersee.
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An open-air museum with 70 original buildings spanning six centuries from across Salzburg province. Crafts demonstrations, train rides, footpaths, restspots, historical tavern, Kneipp spas, House of Noises,...
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In the Silent-Night-Chapel, the Christmas carol "Silent Night! Holy Night!" was heard for the first time on Christmas Eve in 1818. Today, the Silent-Night-Memorial-Chapel stands on the original site of St. Nikolaus Church.
The floods of the 1890s took their toll. When the decision to move Oberndorf up the Salzach River was taken, after the turn of the century, the fate of old St. Nikolaus Church was sealed. Due its dilapidated condition, the sanctuary was torn down between 1906 and 1910. The Romanesque steeple stood the test of time till 1913, but then it was torn down, too. The altars were moved to the new church and the altar pictures are a silent witness of the first performance of the "Silent Night! Holy Night!" carol. |
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Fun, adventure and mystical moments await you in this ancient realm of "White Gold". The galleries of the salt mine in the Dürrnberg near Hallein were the source of Salzburg's wealth. Visitors hop aboard the mine train for a comfortable, fun-filled ride into the center of the mountain, where two long miners' slides take them down to a subterranean salt lake, site of a new multi-media show that transports them into a magical world of light and sound. They follow in the footsteps of the Ancient Celts, who had been mining salt here since 400 B.C., and discover the mysterious world of the miners themselves who, with their bare hands, dug kilometers-long labyrinths deep into the mountain. Today's visitors, big and small, can look forward to adventure, fascinating insights and all kinds of fun during the tour. And it doesn't matter at all whether it is hot or rainy outside. |
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A 12km-long panorama road leads to Postalm, the biggest pasture plateau of Austria. Once up there, one is in one of the most beautiful pasture areas of the Alps where the young and old can enjoy numerous hikes. |
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Obersalzberg, which became Hitler's holiday retreat in 1923, was expanded after 1933, becoming a second seat of government next to Berlin. In contrast to all other comparable institutions (concentration camp memorial sites, holocaust museums, local documentation centres on the Nazi past) and temporary exhibitions on the Nazi period, the Documentation does not limit itself only to local history and sections of historical reality, but combines the history of the Obersalzberg with the central manifestations of the National Socialist dictatorship. | |
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The Eagle’s Nest was a project of Martin Bormann’s and presented on behalf of the National Socialist Party to Adolf Hitler for his 50th birthday. However, Hitler seldom visited the Eagle’s Nest. The Eagle’s Nest remained unscathed through Allied bombing during World War II. Thanks to the intervention of the District President Jakob, the building was spared being blown up after the war. For this reason the Eagle’s Nest can be viewed in its original form as a historical monument. 1960 marked the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the Berchtesgadener Land by Bavaria. On this occasion, the ownership of the Eagle’s Nest was put into the hands of a trust which uses the profits for charitable purposes. |
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The journey on the "Rossfeldhöhenring" Road leads you to an altitude of 1600 m directly to the one-time, alpine high mountains of the Berchtesgadener country. At the crest you find a large car-park. There you enjoy the admirable panorama to the huge massif of mountains like the "Hohen Göll", "Mt. Kehlstein", the "Trennen-&-Dachstein-Mountains", "Mt. Untersberg" as well as the incomparable Berchtesgadener and Salzburger country. Two pretty seated mountain inns invite for a stop and a meal. The road is drivable but chargeable throughout the whole year. |
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Königssee's landmark, the chapel of St. Bartholomew, can only be reached by boat. This world-famous church, originally dating back to the 12th cent., lies at the tip of a picturesque peninsula. Neighboring the chapel stands the former hunting lodge of Berchtesgaden's provosts and Bavaria's kings, today an idyllic location for an inn. |
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From the nearby Mountain Pass Lueg it is only a few steps to the "SALZACHÖFEN". This is an impressive sight; the place where the Tennengebirge mountains break through the chalk of the Dachstein to the Hagengebirge mountain range and fall away 80 metres.The rocky walls are full of immense cavities and swamps carved out by the gushing waters. At the ‘dome’ - considered the part most worth seeing - the rock walls seem to close up completely. This natural wonder is fascinating for vistors of all ages and can be ideally
combined with a visit to the pilgrimage church, Maria Brunneck, built
in 1763 at the top of the road.
The thunderous Golling waterfalls have been a popular subject for many, a romantic painter, and are a very popular destination for trips out,
being one of the provinces most attractive and romantic natural monuments. |
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Even before the glacial period the river "Lammer" started to dig its way through the mountain like a very narrow valley. Actually you can say it was like a valley within a valley.
You will find out that the upper part of the canyon is determined by steep walls of rocks which are several hundred metres high. 10.000 years ago the glacier started to melt and the tremendous amounts of water created the "Lammerklamm". At some parts of the canyon it seems like the rocks touch each other.
The "Lammerklamm" are a wonderful example for the erosive power of the water. And nowhere else in the county of Salzbourg you will find something simeliar. Since 1978 the "Lammerklamm" was declared to be a natural monument. |
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The Villa was originally a wedding present from his mother, Archduchess Sophie, on the occasion of his marriage in 1854 to his teenage Bavarian cousin Elisabeth. Their engagement had taken place in Ischl the previous year. ˜Sisi”, as she was known to the family, became renowned as Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, the most famous beauty of the 19th century, and still fascinates a world-wide public. Franz Josef built a personal Cottage for her in the Imperial Park in English 16th-century ˜Elizabethan” style. The Villa and its estate are still redolent with memories of Elisabeth.
The Imperial Park was created during the 1850s for Emperor Franz Joseph on the rising ground between the River Ischl and the steep wooded higher slopes of the Jainzen hill. It is a magnificent landscape park that draws the eye beyond its boundaries to where it seems to merge with the mountains round about. The park is still in the possession of the Emperor’s Habsburg descendants. |
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The Ice Caves near Werfen are the largest ice caves in the world. Die tour heads south from the city of Salzburg through the Salzach Valley. The Ice Caves are located at an altitude of 1,600 meters above sea level. You will reach the caves after a ride on the cable car and a short walk. The average temperature inside the caves is 0 degrees centigrade – warm winter apparel and rugged footwear are strongly recommended. Visitors will be inside the caves for one hour and 15 minutes. Your knowledgeable guide will provide interesting information on the Ice Caves while you enjoy dramatic views of Hohenwerfen Fortress and the surrounding mountain panorama. |
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The 900-year-old Hohenwerfen Fortress towers high above the Salzach Valley, between the Tennen and Hagen mountain ranges. Adventurers and culture buffs will find exactly what they're looking for at Hohenwerfen: a variety of entertaining attractions including tours of the fortress, a weapons exhibit, a romantic castle tavern, a medieval shop and the historic Falconry Center with daily flight demonstrations, the first Austrian Falconry Museum as well as a birds of prey nature trail.
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| The roaring waterfalls and torrential masses of water have been cutting this gorge deeper and deeper of the millennia. The rock walls are now so close and so high, the sky is only recognizable as a thin strip of brightness overhead. | |
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| Liechtenstein Gorge is not only one of the most beautiful, it is also the deepest wildwater chasm in the Alps. This magnificent natural phenomenon is always well worth a visit. | |
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In 1873 King Ludwig II of Bavaria acquired the Herreninsel as the location for his Royal Palace of Herrenchiemsee (New Palace). Modelled on Versailles, this palace was built as a "Temple of Fame" for King Louis XIV of France, whom the Bavarian monarch fervently admired.The highlights of the large state rooms are the State Staircase, the State Bedroom and the Great Hall of Mirrors. The king's own rooms were in the intimate Small Apartment, designed in the French rococo style. |
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The most famous alpine road leads you into the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park, to the highest mountain in Austria, the Grossglockner (3,798m) and its glacier, the Pasterze. You will have a driving and nature experience of a special kind on 48 kilometres of high alpine road with 36 bends, and an altitude ascent to 2,504 metres!
You pass through a unique world of mountains with blossoming alpine meadows, fragrant mountain forests, massive cliffs and eternal ice to the foot of the Grossglockner, the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe. |
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The high mountain reservoirs in Kaprun are daytrip destinations that attract countless visitors and their children every summer. A huge power plant is located at an altitude of 2,000 metres above sea level. When the power plant was constructed in the 1950s it was extremely important for Austria’s energy supply. You can learn more about the power plant and the high mountain reservoir at the ˜electricity & ice adventure world” at the museum of Mooserboden. The best way to reach the museum is to take the bus from Kesselfall-Alpenhaus through the Lärchenwand Tunnel. From here you have to use the biggest inclined lift in Europe, which brings you up to the mountains of Kaprun. You will complete the journey on a comfortable bus. |
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Visit the unique world of alpine experiences focusing on Austria’s highest mountain (the Grossglockner, elev. 3,798 metres), another 266 three-thousand-metre peaks, over 342 glaciers and one of the mightiest waterfalls in the entire world. Numerous stops will take you on a walking tour through the National Park Hohe Tauern and give you the opportunity to learn about and understand the exceptional diversity on offer. Its highlights are: the Eagle's Flight Panorama, the 3D computer animation including the formation of the ´Window on the Tauern´, the Avalanche-Waterfall Dome, and the World of Glaciers. |
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The sun dial above the gates of Mauterndorf Castle greeted traders, travellers and scoundrels alike on their way over the Alps. The place travellers of past centuries paid their toll is also the point at which today’s visitors enter the world of yesteryear.
Life-size figures, the impressive defence tower and the many imaginatively designed features truly make this lovingly restored castle a "living" museum.
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Water is our elixir of life and has sensational capabilities. Water can work wonders and water can make these wonders visible.
Visit the Wonder World Krimml water and immerse yourself in the house of the water in the Aqua Park and in Mulitvisionskino into a fascinating world of water!
House of water - Explore the fascinating properties and phenomena...
Aqua park - a surprise... |
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With a total height of 380 meters in three stages, the Krimml Waterfalls are the highest waterfalls in Europe and a unique natural wonder! The Krimml River is the source of the Krimmler Waterfalls. It begins at the end of the Krimml River Valley and flows through gentle pastures before it plunges down the mighty steps as a subglacial stream. It is a 10-minute walk on the paved path installed by the Austrian Alpine Association from the WaterWonderWorld to the lowest waterfall. The waterfall path takes you to the highest waterfall (approx. 1-hour walk) and offers spectacular views of the thundering water masses. |
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