Salzburg

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Salzburg sits on the Salzach River at the northern edge of the Alps, close enough to the German border that Munich is a shorter train ride away than Vienna. Its name, meaning salt fortress, records the trade that funded the city for centuries: prince-archbishops ruled it as an independent state from 798 until Napoleon secularized it in 1803, and salt revenue paid for the Baroque rebuilding that gives the old town its present appearance.

Mozart was born here in 1756, and the city's calendar still runs substantially on his name and on the Salzburg Festival, founded in 1920 by Max Reinhardt, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss as a project of cultural renewal after the First World War. A second wave of recognition followed in 1965, when The Sound of Music was filmed at Mirabell Palace and elsewhere, and the Altstadt was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996.

01Когда Salzburg имеет значение

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Mozart Week · Jan–FebSalzburg Festival · Jul–Aug

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Fortress Hohensalzburg seen from north-east, City of Salzburg, Austria

View of Salzburg from Fortress Hohensalzburg

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03Почему это важно

Salzburg's claim on the calendar rests on two fixed points: Mozart Week each January, organized around the composer's January 27 birthday, and the Salzburg Festival each summer, running from mid-July to the end of August with roughly 200 performances. In our reading, what makes Salzburg unusual among festival cities is that both fixtures are built around a single figure and a single cultural-renewal project rather than the city's own social calendar. For a visitor without festival tickets, Hohensalzburg Fortress, the Altstadt's streets and Mirabell Palace's gardens are open to the public daily and cost little or nothing to see.

04Год, месяц за месяцем

ЯнварьMozart Week, organized by the Mozarteum Foundation, runs from the third week of the month into early February.

ФевральA quieter month once Mozart Week ends, with museums on their normal winter schedule.

МартStill a quiet stretch of the year, ahead of the spring tourist season.

АпрельVisitor numbers begin building through the month as the weather turns milder.

МайThe Salzburg Festival's smaller Whitsun series runs for several days around Pentecost.

ИюньA comparatively quiet month between the Whitsun series and the main festival.

ИюльThe Salzburg Festival opens in the second half of the month with Jedermann on Cathedral Square.

АвгустThe Festival continues at full pace, the city's busiest stretch of the year, before closing at month's end.

СентябрьVisitor numbers ease once the Festival closes, with mild weather good for the Altstadt.

ОктябрьA quiet autumn month, with the city's museums on normal hours.

НоябрьChristmas markets begin setting up in the Altstadt toward the end of the month.

ДекабрьChristmas markets run through the Altstadt, and Salzburg keeps a claim on the season through the nearby carol Silent Night, composed in 1818.

05Погода по месяцам

Источник: Wikipedia climate table for Salzburg, sourced to the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (precipitation normals 1981-2010). Долгосрочные средние значения; конкретная неделя может отличаться.
Месяц	Макс. °C	Низкая °C	Осадки, мм
Январь	3.4	-3.6	59.0
Февраль	6.2	-2.8	53.0
Март	10.2	0.7	87.0
Апрель	15.7	4.3	78.0
Май	19.3	8.3	115.0
Июнь	23.2	12.5	151.0
Июль	24.3	13.8	158.0
Август	24.0	13.6	164.0
Сентябрь	19.9	10.1	112.0
Октябрь	14.4	5.6	73.0
Ноябрь	8.5	0.9	72.0
Декабрь	4.0	-2.5	72.0

06Как добраться и передвигаться

АэропортыSalzburg (W. A. Mozart) (SZG) · 4 km · коммерческий — west of the city center, with schedules that expand around the Festival and the winter ski season.

Деловая авиацияSalzburg Airport handles general-aviation and business-jet traffic alongside scheduled services, busiest around the Festival and the surrounding ski season.

Как ориентироватьсяSalzburg's Altstadt is pedestrianized and walkable; buses and trolleybuses cover the rest. Salzburg Hauptbahnhof sits on the main Vienna-Munich line, putting Munich under two hours away. A car is useful for the Salzkammergut lakes but not needed in the city.

07Где что находится

Районы

Altstadtthe old town on the Salzach's left bank, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996, holding the Cathedral, the Residenz and Getreidegasse.

Neustadt (Mirabell district)the right-bank district around Mirabell Palace and its gardens.

Nonntala quarter beneath the fortress, near Nonnberg Abbey.

Riedenburgthe district holding Leopoldskron Palace and its lake.

Районы отеля

Hotels within or close to the Altstadt put visitors within walking distance of the Cathedral and the Festival's main venues, and carry the heaviest demand during summer and Mozart Week. The Neustadt side, around Mirabell Palace, offers a quieter alternative a short walk across the river.

Ресторанные кварталы

Getreidegasse and the surrounding Altstadt lanes hold the densest concentration of restaurants and cafes, busiest through the Festival. The Neustadt side of the river keeps a quieter, more local dining scene.

Культурные институции

Hohensalzburg Fortressbegun in 1077 on the hill above the old town, among the larger medieval castles in Europe to survive intact.

Salzburg Cathedralthe Baroque cathedral at the center of the Altstadt, rebuilt after a 1598 fire.

Mozart's Birthplacethe house on Getreidegasse where Mozart was born in 1756, now a museum.

Mirabell Palace and Gardensbuilt from 1606, with gardens used as a filming location for The Sound of Music and open to the public without charge.

DomQuartiera connected museum route linking the Cathedral, the Residenz and the Cathedral Museum.

Шопинг

Getreidegasse, the Altstadt's medieval main street, holds Salzburg's principal shopping district, known for the wrought-iron guild signs that local regulations still require of its shopfronts.

08Как меняется это место

Salzburg's year is organized around its festival calendar: a quiet winter interrupted by Mozart Week in late January, a comparatively quiet spring apart from the Festival's Whitsun preview, and a peak in the six weeks of the Salzburg Festival from mid-July to the end of August, after which numbers fall through a quiet autumn.

09История

The Romans founded Iuvavum here, and Salzburg became an episcopal seat around 696 and an archbishopric in 798, after which prince-archbishops ruled it as an independent state for roughly a thousand years, funded by the salt trade that gave the city its name. Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau's rebuilding around 1600 gave the Altstadt its Baroque character, and Napoleon's 1803 secularization ended the prince-archbishops' rule. Mozart was born here in 1756. The Salzburg Festival, founded in 1920 by Max Reinhardt, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss, was conceived as a postwar project of cultural renewal, and the 1965 filming of The Sound of Music added a second layer of international recognition.