The fortress from opposite
Hohensalzburg directly in front above the old town — the angle you cannot get from the west.
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A late sixteenth-century Capuchin monastery on the Kapuzinerberg hill east of the Salzach, facing the old town from the opposite bank. The monastery itself is plain and austere, as the Capuchin order rejects ornament, and it is a clear counterpoint to Salzburg's grand Baroque across the water. But what people come for is the climb and the view rather than the building. The ascent from the city centre takes about fifteen minutes on steps and a winding path past stations of the cross. From the top you see the whole old town with Hohensalzburg Fortress directly opposite, and it is the best angle for photographing the fortress and the city together — better than anywhere on the western bank. The hill itself is a nature reserve with quiet walking paths running east, and you rarely find crowds on it. The writer Stefan Zweig lived in a house on this hill, which many mention in connection with the place.
Hohensalzburg directly in front above the old town — the angle you cannot get from the west.
The Capuchin house is deliberately plain, a clear counterpoint to the splendour opposite.
Quiet paths run east and you rarely find crowds on them.
Kapuzinerberg hill, east of the Salzach
The Mozart ResidenceThe Residence is the mature Mozart: the birth house grown too small, the family 3 minutes walk4.2
Mozart's BirthplaceOn the third floor of the yellow house on Getreidegasse, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart4 minutes walk4.4
Mozarteum UniversityA university of music and dramatic arts in Salzburg, founded in the nineteenth c4 minutes walk4.6
Salzburg Christmas MuseumA private museum on Mozartplatz in the heart of the old town, showing a collecti4 minutes walk4.3
Museum of Art of the Lost GenerationA private museum in the old town devoted to Austrian and German artists whose wo5 minutes walk4.9Moderate but a continuous stair of about fifteen minutes, with no lift or funicular. Anyone with knee trouble or pushing a pram will find it difficult. For a similar view with less effort, the fortress funicular goes up Hohensalzburg itself, though the angle is different.
Late afternoon or before sunset, when the sun is behind you and lights the fortress face and the old town. Morning puts the sun in front of you and is worse for photography from this side.