Salzburg travel guide

Most travellers know Salzburg for having the mightiest castle in Austria, a dominance of Baroque architecture and a striking location with a mountain background. For Raven Guides, it’s also an eccentric place that is full of variety.

The further you walk – and Salzburg is a beautiful and very walkable city – the more you will challenge the conventional view of the place. There’s a lot more than Baroque churches and palaces and the locations of a feelgood 1960s musical.

Find out about an early Christian cave network associated with two saints, a real one and a not-so-real one. Salzburg was one of the earliest centres of the central European church, dominated for centuries by archbishops.

There's also a Baroque place for horses, created by one of Austria’s great architects. Discover the precious but hard-to-find church that Mozart supposedly loved, tucked halfway up some medieval steps. There wasn't much Mozart liked about Salzburg. Salzburg can seem rather expensive, but it doesn't have to be that way.

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