Church · Salzburg
Salzburg Cathedral
Salzburg Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral on Domplatz in Salzburg's old town, an early Baroque building consecrated in 1628 and reconsecrated in 1959 after war damage.
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Austria•City
Salzburg
Salzburg is the capital of the Austrian federal state of the same name; its tourism board says the city's historic centre, on both banks of the Salzach, has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996. XTOUR maps the fortress, the cathedral, the Residenz, Mirabell Palace and its gardens, Hellbrunn, the two Mozart museums, St Peter's Archabbey, the Museum der Moderne on the Mönchsberg and the Salzburg Museum in the city.
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Historic site · Salzburg
Salzburg Residenz
The Salzburg Residenz is the former palace of Salzburg's prince-archbishops on Residenzplatz, whose state rooms are shown as part of the DomQuartier museum tour.
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Museum · Salzburg
Salzburg Museum
The Salzburg Museum is Salzburg's museum of art and cultural history, whose main building is the Neue Residenz on Mozartplatz; the museum says the Neue Residenz is closed for renovation, with reopening expected in 2027.
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Monastery · Salzburg
St Peter's Archabbey
St Peter's Archabbey is the Benedictine monastery in Salzburg's old town, which its own site says Bishop Rupert of Worms founded in 696, with its abbey church, cemetery and the rock caves known as the catacombs.
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Museum · Salzburg
Mozart's Birthplace
Mozart's Birthplace is the museum in the house at Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg where Wolfgang Amadé Mozart was born in 1756, run by the International Mozarteum Foundation.
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Fortress · Salzburg
Hohensalzburg Fortress
Hohensalzburg Fortress is the castle complex on the Festungsberg above Salzburg's old town, whose first fortifications its operator dates to 1077.
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Guides to Salzburg
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Travel Guide01
Hellbrunn Palace and its trick fountains: what the visit is
Hellbrunn is the pleasure palace Prince-Archbishop Markus Sittikus built from 1613 in Salzburg, with water-powered grottoes, fountains and automata that still spray visitors. This guide explains what the trick fountains are, what the one Hellbrunn ticket covers, why Hellbrunn is in the city but not in the old town, and where the operator's pages disagree.
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Travel Guide02
Visiting Hohensalzburg Fortress: tickets, tours and the way up
Hohensalzburg Fortress sits on the hill above Salzburg's old town and is run as a visitor site by Salzburger Burgen & Schlösser, an organisation of the Province of Salzburg. This guide sets out what its four tickets cover, which tours the operator offers, how the funicular and the footpath fit in, and where the operator's own pages disagree.
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Travel Guide03
Mozart's Birthplace or the Mozart Residence in Salzburg: how the two houses differ
Salzburg has two Mozart museums, both run by the International Mozarteum Foundation: the house on Getreidegasse where Mozart was born, and the Tanzmeisterhaus on Makartplatz across the river, where the family moved in 1773. This guide compares what each house is, what the foundation shows in it, and how its tickets work.
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Travel Guide04
Salzburg's DomQuartier: what one ticket covers and what is closed
The DomQuartier is not one building but a single museum route through the Residenz, the cathedral's galleries and St Peter's Archabbey, with collections owned by the province, the archdiocese and the abbey. This guide sets out what the route passes through, who stands behind each part, and what the operator listed as closed or restricted on 9 October 2026.
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Travel Guide05
The Salzburg Festival as its organiser describes it
The Salzburg Festival is a summer festival of opera, drama and concerts, with a short Whitsun festival in May, run by a public foundation set up by Austrian federal law in 1950. This article sets out what the organiser says about its founding, its venues, Jedermann on the Cathedral Square, its 2027 dates and its order-then-buy ticketing, and what it has not yet announced.
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Useful from Salzburg
Travel Guide01
Austria travel guide: choosing between Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, Hallstatt and the Wachau
Austria's bases differ less in size than in what sits inside them and what only starts from them. This guide sets out what Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, Hallstatt and the Wachau towns contain, who runs the main sights, and which well-known places, from the Eisriesenwelt to the Mauthausen Memorial, lie outside the base XTOUR links them to.
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Travel Guide02
Austria's UNESCO World Heritage sites: the 12 on the list and what each one covers
The Austrian Commission for UNESCO counts 12 World Heritage sites in Austria, from the historic centre of Salzburg and Schönbrunn (1996) to the Danube Limes and the Great Spa Towns (2021). This article lists all 12 as the Commission records them, says what each inscribed area covers, which ones cross a border, and where the Commission's own pages disagree.
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Travel Guide03
Austria's nine federal states: German and English names, and why Vienna and Salzburg are two things
Austria's constitution names nine Länder: Burgenland, Kärnten, Niederösterreich, Oberösterreich, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol, Vorarlberg and Wien. This article gives their English names from the official translation, explains why Vienna is both a city and a state and Salzburg a city inside a state of the same name, and shows where the state names turn up again on wine labels, food names and heritage pages.
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Travel Guide04
Stift, Schloss, Burg, Hofburg, Festung, Dom: reading Austrian heritage names
Austrian sites name themselves with a handful of German words that English signs translate inconsistently. This article reads them from the operators' own pages: Stift Melk, which calls itself an abbey, the Hofburgs of Vienna and Innsbruck, which are complexes, Festung Hohensalzburg, the Domkirche St. Stephan and Salzburg's DomQuartier.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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