Little Rome
Pale marble and Italian dome — the German baroque's model.
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Salzburg Cathedral is the first great baroque north of the Alps: rebuilt by Italian architects (1628) after fire, arriving as a little Rome in pale marble under its dome — and becoming the model for all German baroque. Its musical station is singular: Mozart was baptised here (the font remains) and served as its organist — five organs face each other around the dome, and Sunday's choral mass is a known free musical event. Its two squares are the city's stages: Domplatz with the Virgin's column, where the Salzburg Festival opens with Jedermann each summer, and Residenzplatz with its grand fountain — the cathedral anchoring Salzburg's scene in stone and sound.
Pale marble and Italian dome — the German baroque's model.
Facing across the space — a European singularity.
Domplatz 1a, 5020 Salzburg
Cathedral MuseumA museum inside Salzburg cathedral showing the archdiocese's treasures and holdi1 minute walk4.8
Cathedral Excavations MuseumAn underground museum on Residenzplatz showing what was uncovered in excavations1 minute walk4.8
DomQuartierThe DomQuartier is Salzburg's palace of power opened as one circuit: since 2014 1 minute walk4.7
Salzburg Christmas MuseumA private museum on Mozartplatz in the heart of the old town, showing a collecti1 minute walk4.3
St Peter's Abbey and CemeteryA Benedictine abbey in old central Salzburg, founded in the seventh century and 2 minutes walk4.9It is the walk's geometric centre — between fortress, Getreidegasse and Quartier: its half hour falls naturally into any route. Sunday at ten for the choral mass, for those at ease in reverence — a sound experience beyond purchase.