Mozart's Birthplace, Alpine Fortresses & The Sound of Music at the World's Greatest Music Festival
📍 Salzburg, Austria📅 3-day itinerary
The city where the greatest composer in Western classical music was born in a third-floor apartment still preserved exactly as it was in 1756, where the world's most prestigious music festival fills every hall from July to August, where Julie Andrews filmed Do-Re-Mi in gardens designed for an archbishop's mistress, and where a medieval fortress built in 1077 remains so intact it still hosts concerts inside.
The Composer's Childhood Violin and First Clavichord in the Third-Floor Apartment Where He Was Born & Europe's Oldest Restaurant Mentioned in a Charlemagne Document from 803 AD
The Archbishop Who Built a Palace for His Mistress and Their 15 Children in a Garden Now Famous for a 1965 American Musical Film & A Palace Designed Purely to Drench Unsuspecting Noble Guests with Hidden Water Jets
The 1938 Mountain Road Cut Through Solid Rock in 13 Months to Deliver a Summit Retreat for Hitler Where He Met Chamberlain and Mussolini & A Lake So Pristine That No Motorboats Have Been Permitted Since 1909