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Salzburg- General Information

Salzburg- Basic Information

• Currency: The currency in Austria is the Euro (€) which is split into one hundred cents. Most businesses accept credit cards although some smaller hotels and restaurants may not. Traveller’s cheques are widely accepted and there are an abundance of money exchange desks throughout the city.
• Tipping: A service charge of 10% is often added to bills in hotels and restaurants, it is customary to leave a further 5%, giving it directly to the waiter. Taxis expect at 10% tip.
• Telephones: the international dialing code for Austria is 43, so when phoning to the country from UK, dial 0043 then the local number. Dialing from Austria uses the standard international codes, so dial 0044 for the UK. Payphones are easily located and are direct dial for international and local calls.
• Embassies: The British and US embassies are both in Vienna. Telephone numbers are: British, 01 716 130 and US, 01 313 390

Salzburg - The City

Salzburg is a year round destination with the summer bringing concerts and operas as part of the five week Salzburg Festival, spring flooding your senses with colours and smells from the abundance of gardens and winter bringing the skiers and Christmas shoppers into the city in force. Although you wouldn’t exactly call it low season, there are fewer visitors in the city in the winter than during height of the summer.

The River Salzach runs through the centre of the city and in between two mountains, Mönchsberg and Kapuzinerberg. The left bank of the river is home to the old town and the right to the newer town, although don’t let that fool you into thinking it’s all modern buildings. A large proportion of the buildings date from the 18th & 19th Centuries while some are even from the 14th Century!

Salzburg Churches

1. St. Peters Abbey

St Peter’s Abbey is on the site where the original St Peter’s Church was founded in 700AD. This oldest remaining active monastery has undergone a number of facelifts over the years and retains now the lavish rococo style given to it in the 18th century. Whilst visiting the monastery you should also see the early Christian catacombs carved from the rock.

2. Salzburg Cathedral

The Salzburg Cathedral is a beautiful example of early-baroque design, restored in the 1950’s after extensive damage during the war. Mozart was once the church organist here and you will also see the font used for his Baptism.

Just of Markat Square you’ve also got the Holy Trinity Church, a baroque style church by the great architect Fischer von Erlach. In the heart of the old town there’s the entirely contrasting Franciscan Church which dates from the 12th century and is possibly the most interesting church in the area in terms of its architecture.

Salzburg Mozart Attractions

The city was the home to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and there are many things in Salzburg to remind you of this. His birthplace on Getreidegasse and home are both now museums, there’s a monument to him in the square bearing his name and you can visit the church he was baptised in, as if that wasn’t enough, most postcards and tourist souvenirs convey his image too.

Salzburg Fortress

You can’t fail to notice the 11th century fortress atop Mönchsberg. A fifteen minute walk will take you up to this, the largest fully preserved fortress in Europe where you can visit the lookout tower, torture chambers, staterooms and two small museums, as well as take in the spectacular views over the city. The less energetic may want to take the funicular railway from St Peter’s Cemetery rather than walk.

Salzburg Shopping

In the Old Town, there is the quaint, narrow shopping street Getreidegasse, where each shop has an old-fashioned iron sign hanging above the door. Souvenir shopping comes in the way of chocolates, wooden gifts and traditional crafts rather than the usual array of tacky t-shirts you’d get in other cities.
If you visit in December then you have to visit Christkindlmarkt , one of the many Christmas Markets selling all sorts of beautiful crafts, warming foods and gallons of Gluhwein.

Kapuzinerberg

At 636m high, Kapuzinerberg towers over the city on the right bank of the river and provides the opportunity for a lovely walk through a dense pine forest, where you can expect to see pine martens, badgers and deer. Two Neolithic settlements have been discovered on the hill just above the Capuchin Monastery which sits prominently on the hill. Dining

Dining in Salzburg

There are a number of options for food in Salzburg to suit all tastes. Restaurants stay open quite late and don’t have a tendency to overcharge. The vast majority of Salzburg restaurants serve Austrian meals although international meals are also available. Bars and cafes often serve good food and it is not unusual to find them still serving food after midnight. During the day, a visit to one of the lovely cafes, which you will find scattered about the city, will be enough for coffees and snacks. Specialties which you should try are Salzburger Nockerl, (sugary egg-whites and raspberries) and Mozartkügeln (marzipan balls dipped in chocolate).