iJourneys Salzburg

By: Elyse Weiner

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

In this audio tour, we'll walk the streets of Salzburg where Mozart roamed; see where he was born and where his family lived; stand where Julie Andrews and the von Trapp gang sang "Do-Re-Mi"; wander the lovely and soothing cemetery built into the mountain; enter the oldest restaurant in Europe (Charlemagne ate there); explore the palace and gardens built by an archbishop for his lady love and their 10 children; visit the festival halls of the renowned Salzburg Music Festival; experience an underground bakery that's been filling ovens and bellies for more than a thousand years; inhale the herbal smell at a 500-year-old pharmacy; walk the 850-year-old main street, with its intricate iron signs and charming shops; check the weather on a 150-year-old forecasting machine; go inside a luscious chocolate shop; stand inside Fischer von Erlach's ethereal masterpiece of a church; choose from a dozen sausage stands and walk through a produce and cheese market; stop for a special Salzburg souffle and a sip of wine from Mozart's day; and experience ever-present music and astounding architecture, vast squares, and cozy courtyards.

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