The Maria Hilf
Cranach's 1530 — the German world's most copied Madonna.
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Innsbruck's Dom is complete Tyrolean baroque behind a quiet twin-towered face: a white-gold interior under illusion-depth dome frescoes (the Asam brothers, 1720s), and above its altar the city's treasure: Cranach's Maria Hilf icon (1530), among the German world's most famous and most copied Madonnas. Its bell dome carries Tyrol's heaviest bells — the great Mary's Saturday-evening peal a sound event shaking the square. Steps from the Roof and Hofburg — its twenty minutes fall into every walk by force, and its being free settles it.
Cranach's 1530 — the German world's most copied Madonna.
The Asams' painted depth moving as you move.
Domplatz 6, 6020 Innsbruck
The Imperial HofburgInnsbruck's Hofburg is Austria's third imperial palace after Vienna's Schönbrunn1 minute walk4.3
The Golden Roof & Old TownThe Golden Roof is Innsbruck's absolute symbol: a balcony of 2,657 gilded copper1 minute walk4.5
The Leopold FountainThe Leopold Fountain stands on Rennweg between the Hofburg palace and the state 2 minutes walk4.7
The BurgriesenhausA historic house on the Hofgasse in the old town, between the Golden Roof and th2 minutes walk3.1
The HelblinghausThe Helblinghaus stands directly opposite the Golden Roof in the heart of the ol2 minutes walk4.7Twenty free minutes between two monuments need no justification — the icon and illusion domes are its own. The measure: on your way, never out of it.