Salzburg’s old town is small and mostly flat, and most of what children enjoy is within walking distance of it. The hard parts are the hill with the fortress on top, the cobbles, and a few gardens that you reach by steps. Below is what works for families on foot, where a stroller goes and where it does not, and what to do when it rains.

Hohensalzburg Fortress: ride up

The fortress is the big draw for children, and the FestungsBahn funicular is half the fun. It starts at Festungsgasse 4, just off Kapitelplatz, a car leaves about every 10 minutes, and the ride takes under a minute.

With a stroller, the funicular is the way up. The fortress says its footpath is steep, partly gravel, has steps in places and is not suitable for baby carriages, and that step-free access is possible only by the FestungsBahn. The FestungsBahn says it carries strollers free when there is room. At the top, the terrace by the station is step-free, and an elevator in the bell tower reaches the castle courtyard and the Marionette Museum. Most of the other museums are not reachable with a stroller; the fortress says you can park it at the Info Point and lock it with your own lock.

With children who like to climb, walking up is an option: the fortress gives 15 to 30 minutes for the path, depending on which of its pages you read. The footpath tickets include the ride down.

What children tend to look for up there:

• The Marionette Museum, in the vaulted gun gallery cut into the rock, with historic puppets from the Salzburg Marionette Theatre.
• The turnip. Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach put a turnip in his coat of arms, and it turns up all over the fortress. Children like the legend behind it: a lazy pupil, an angry uncle, and a turnip thrown after him. Salzburg’s local encyclopedia says the legend was invented in the late 1800s, and the turnip was on his family’s arms by 1344, a century before he was born. Counting turnips works either way.

The Panorama tour climbs a tower by stairs and is not step-free. Children pay less; see the fortress’s ticket page and our guide to fortress tickets.

Plan around two closures. As published on 8 October 2026, the funicular is closed 9 to 13 November 2026 (museums and indoor areas closed too) and 11 January to 14 March 2027. In the second window the footpath is the only way up, so there is no stroller access.

Mirabell: dwarfs, a hedge theater and a playground

Across the river, the Mirabell gardens are free. The City of Salzburg lists them as open 5:00 to 23:00 from April to September and 7:00 to 22:00 in the colder months (as published on 8 October 2026), with partial closures in winter.

The dwarf garden is the part children remember: marble dwarfs from the 1690s, which the city calls the oldest dwarf garden in Europe as far as is known. They were auctioned off in 1811 and tracked down again after 1919, and some still stand in private gardens. It is 15 steps up from the Pegasus fountain and not step-free, and the dwarfs are boxed in wooden cases in winter.

Nearby are the hedge theater, which the city says is the only one of its kind in Austria, and just below it the city’s Zauberflötenspielplatz, a playground built in 2006 around scenes from Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The city lists drinking water and a toilet nearby.

The west end of the old town: toys, fish and a riverside playground

Three things for children sit within about 400 meters of each other at the western end of the old town.

• The Toy Museum (Spielzeug Museum), Bürgerspitalgasse 2, is aimed at children up to about 10, with play areas and toys to use. It is step-free with an elevator, has stroller parking by the ticket desk, changing tables on every floor and snack areas on every floor where you may eat your own food. As published on 8 October 2026, it opens Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 to 17:00, with last entry at 16:00. Museum page.
• Haus der Natur, Museumsplatz 5, is the natural history museum: aquarium, reptile zoo, dinosaurs, a hands-on Science Center and a Christian Doppler exhibition. Strollers up to 110 by 65 cm may go in; larger ones stay in the foyer. An elevator serves every floor. As published on 8 October 2026, it opens daily 9:00 to 17:00. Hours and prices.
• The Franz-Josef-Kai playground in Mülln, by the river, is on the city’s playground list, with drinking water.

Children pay less at both museums; see their pages.

Hellbrunn’s trick fountains, in season

Hellbrunn Palace, south of the center, has water-powered grottoes and fountains that spray visitors who are not paying attention. It is about 25 minutes on bus line 25 from the Rathaus stop. As published on 8 October 2026, the 2026 season runs 28 March to 1 November, and the visit takes about 50 minutes. Hellbrunn says you get wet “only if you wish to”, that it opens in any weather, and that the park and the trick fountains are wheelchair accessible. The palace gardens have a playground with a step-free toilet beside it. Children pay less; see Hellbrunn’s hours and prices.

Strollers, steps and toilets

• Cobbles cover parts of the old town, and the Steingasse on the right bank is cobbled with no sidewalks. The riverside promenade at the right-bank end of the Mozartsteg is smooth asphalt; watch for cyclists on the Giselakai.
• Steps to know about: the fortress footpath, the 15 steps to the dwarf garden, and two steps at the gate into St. Peter’s Cemetery.
• Toilets we could source: OpenStreetMap shows public toilets by the cathedral’s south arches near Kapitelplatz; there are also toilets by the Info Point and in the restaurant at the fortress, near the Mirabell playground, inside Haus der Natur and the Toy Museum, and by the Hellbrunn playground.

How long little legs last

Each of our old-town routes is about 2 km, and that is a fair morning for a small child once you add stopping and a snack. If they flag, a playground or a museum with a play area is never far. A gentle shape for the day: one walk in the morning, the fortress or a museum after lunch, and nothing ambitious after that. Our Salzburg in one day plan has all four walks and is a lot for young children; take half.

When it rains

The Toy Museum and Haus der Natur are the obvious choices. The fortress museums, including the Marionette Museum, are indoors, though getting between them is not. Hellbrunn’s trick fountains run in any weather, and you may get wet there anyway. In winter, Hellbrunn’s fountains are closed and the Christmas markets take over; see Salzburg in December.

Our audio tours and children: an honest fit

Our tours were not made for children, and there is no children’s version. Salzburg Essentials, Across the River and Hohensalzburg Fortress are history walks of about 80 to 90 minutes, made for adults and older teenagers. Older children with an interest in castles or Mozart may enjoy them; younger ones may last a few stops. Each booking includes 2 phones, a group can add phones or share one on its speaker, and you can pause anytime, so a parent can listen while a child runs around the dwarf garden. The fortress tour includes sieges and the story of a dungeon, and Across the River has a stop in the dwarf garden.

Two tours are not for young children. Salzburg After Dark carries a content advisory for descriptions of torture and of the execution of children in the sorcery trials, and Salzburg 1938 to 1945 for persecution and murder. Parents can judge for teenagers.

You can see where each tour starts, and how it works explains what you get on your phone.

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December in Salzburg is Advent, and the city leans into it. The main Christmas market fills the Domplatz and Residenzplatz from November 19, 2026 to January 1, 2027, smaller markets set up at Mirabell, Hellbrunn and the fortress, and Advent music runs through the first half of the month. The days are short (the sun sets around a quarter past four), the stone underfoot can be icy, and the old town is at its prettiest in the hour after dark.

The Christmas markets

The Christkindlmarkt on the Domplatz and Residenzplatz

The main market runs from November 19, 2026 to January 1, 2027, according to its own site, on the Domplatz in front of the cathedral, the Residenzplatz next door and part of the Kapitelplatz. Expect wooden huts under strings of lights shaped like a starry sky, handcrafts, regional food, and mulled drinks.

It opens daily from morning until 20:30 or 21:00 (as published on October 8, 2026), with different hours on December 7–8, 24–26 and 31 and on January 1. Check the market’s site before you plan around a particular evening.

The program is part of the appeal: brass players on a tower and on the cathedral square, choirs, children’s readings, and visits from St. Nicholas, Krampus and the Perchten.

Mirabellplatz

A second market sets up on Mirabellplatz in front of Mirabell Palace, on the right bank. Its own site lists November 19 to December 31, 2026, open daily until 20:00 or 21:00, with shorter hours over Christmas (as published on October 8, 2026). Salzburg’s tourism board adds brass music in front of the palace on Wednesdays and weekends at 5:15 p.m.

Hellbrunn

Hellbrunn Palace, on the southern side of the city, holds an Advent market from November 19 to December 24, 2026, per its own site. The palace’s 24 windows become an oversized Advent calendar, and hundreds of decorated trees fill the grounds. It is closed on Mondays (except December 21) and opens at 1 p.m. on weekdays, and entry is charged until 7 p.m. Details are on the market’s site.

Up at the fortress

The fortress holds a small Advent market in its courtyard on the four Advent weekends, Friday to Sunday from November 27 to December 20, 2026, plus December 7 and 8, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., per the fortress’s 2026 program and the tourism board. In December the funicular runs until 20:30, except on December 24 and 31, when it stops at 5 p.m. (as published on October 8, 2026).

Advent music and customs

Advent singing in the Great Festival Hall. The Salzburger Adventsingen is a staged Christmas oratorio with folk music, performed in the Großes Festspielhaus. Its own site lists 2026 performances on November 27–29, December 5, 6 and 8, and December 12–13, at about 1 hour 40 minutes without an intermission. If it is a reason for your trip, book ahead.

Krampus and the Perchten. Around St. Nicholas Day on December 6, groups in carved wooden masks, shaggy pelts and heavy bells go out across the region. St. Nicholas rewards the good; the Krampus, his devilish companion, frightens the rest. Small children may have opinions. The tourism board’s Advent pages list the runs.

The Christmas Museum on Mozartplatz. Above Café Glockenspiel, a museum shows how Christmas was celebrated between 1840 and 1940. The tourism board lists it as open daily during Advent, with short hours on December 24 and 31. Mozartplatz has been rebuilt during 2026, and work on the streets around it continues into 2028, so expect some building work nearby.

Silent Night: what is in the city, and what is not

“Silent Night” is the carol most people connect with Salzburg, and the city’s own part in the story is smaller, and less certain, than you might expect.

Joseph Mohr, who wrote the words, was born in the city of Salzburg on December 11, 1792, in the cathedral parish. Which house he was born in is not known. For a long time the house at Steingasse 9, on the right bank below the Kapuzinerberg, carried plaques calling it his birthplace. Research showed that a 1794 census entry for the family had been matched to the wrong house through a mix-up of house names; it belonged to Steingasse 31, further up the lane. The plaques at number 9 came down on November 30, 2017. Number 31 is where he lived as a small child. Where he was born remains open.

Mohr wrote the poem in 1816 in Mariapfarr. The carol was first performed on December 24, 1818, at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, with music by the schoolteacher Franz Xaver Gruber. Oberndorf is not in the city. It lies north of the city and can be reached on the local railway, the Salzburger Lokalbahn; check its timetable for the journey. The old church is gone; the Silent Night Chapel, opened in 1937, stands on its site, and the former parsonage where Mohr lived is now a museum.

In the city, you can walk the Steingasse and see the wall where the plaques hung, which tells the story better than a plaque did. Across the River stops there, and ends at Mirabell, where the second market is.

What changes in winter

Short days

Sunset in Salzburg in December 2026 falls between about 4:15 and 4:25 p.m. On the shortest day, December 21, the sun is up from about 7:54 a.m. to 4:18 p.m., under eight and a half hours. Do the fortress and anything with a view in the morning or early afternoon, and save the lanes and markets for after dark.

Cold and slippery stone

The old town is paved in stone and setts, with steep lanes and stairs on both banks. In frost they get slick. Wear shoes with real grip and use the handrails.

Opening hours shift

• Hohensalzburg Fortress opens 9:30–17:00 from October to December (to 6 p.m. on Advent weekends), with shorter hours inside on December 24 (as published on October 8, 2026).
• The fortress funicular runs into early January, then closes from January 11 to March 14, 2027 for work the tourism board describes as accessibility improvements. The fortress stays open during that time and can be reached on the walking path. If you are coming in January, plan for the climb.
• Hellbrunn’s trick fountains are a summer attraction; their 2026 season ends on November 1.
• Holidays. Hours change almost everywhere on December 24–26 and 31; check what matters to you.

The Domplatz is partly blocked

While the Christmas market is up, the huts take much of the Domplatz and Residenzplatz and part of the Kapitelplatz. Views across the square and the usual straight lines through it are interrupted, and in the evening the crowd moves at market pace.

What is still good to do on foot

• The old town in the morning. Before the markets open, the squares are quiet and the views of the fortress are clear. A self-guided walk like Salzburg Essentials works in winter; during the market it takes a short detour where the Domplatz is fenced or packed.
• The fortress in daylight. Go up in the late morning and come down before the light goes. Our Hohensalzburg Fortress audio guide is one option; the fortress’s own displays are another.
• The right bank and Mirabell. The Steingasse, the Linzer Gasse and the Mirabell gardens make a good loop that ends at the Mirabellplatz market.
• The lanes after dark. With sunset before half past four, an evening walk can start before dinner. Salzburg After Dark is made for that hour, and in December it is not a late night.

Our walks are one way to do this. A paper map and a warm coat are another, and the city is small enough to reward either.

Where to go from here

If you are only in town for the day, our guide to a Salzburg day trip from Munich or Vienna covers the trains. If December is your month, book the fixed things (Advent singing, a concert, a room near the old town) and leave the rest loose. Our Salzburg page collects what we know about walking the city, and how it works explains how a self-guided walk runs on your phone. Whatever you choose, bring gloves that work with a touchscreen, and leave some time to stand still in a square and watch the lights come on.

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Yes, for most people, with one honest condition: from Munich it is an easy day, and from Vienna it is a long one. The fastest trains from Munich take about an hour and a half; the fastest from Vienna take about two and a half hours each way. The old town is a twenty-minute walk from Salzburg’s main station, and it is compact enough that a day gets you the cathedral squares, the Getreidegasse and, if you keep moving, the fortress. What a day does not get you is the lakes, the salt mines, or the city after dark.

The rest of this page is the arithmetic: how long the trains take, what fits between arrival and departure, and when a night in town earns its keep.

Getting there by train

Travel times below are the fastest ones published by Deutsche Bahn and by Salzburg’s tourism board. Many departures are slower, and timetables change, so check the planner for your date. Fares vary by train, time and how early you book; we link the operators rather than quote a price.

From Munich

Deutsche Bahn’s route page for Munich to Salzburg gives the fastest connection as 1 hour 27 minutes, with about 48 connections a day and up to 42 of them direct (as published on October 8, 2026). Salzburg’s tourism board, describing the same route, says “from 1h 40 min”, which is a fair reminder that the fast trains are not every train.

There is also a regional option: the Bayerische Regiobahn’s RE 5 (once branded Meridian) runs hourly from Munich to Salzburg main station via Rosenheim, Traunstein and Freilassing in just under two hours. It is slower, but it runs often and keeps the day simple if a faster train sells out or runs late.

Book or check times with Deutsche Bahn, ÖBB or the Bayerische Regiobahn.

From Vienna

Salzburg’s tourism board gives the Railjet Xpress from Vienna via St. Pölten and Linz as about 2 hours 25 minutes, with two Railjets an hour during the day. WESTbahn, a private operator, runs every half hour through most of the day from Westbahnhof or Hütteldorf, in about two and a half hours. If you are flying in, there is an hourly direct train from Vienna Airport, from about 2 hours 50 minutes.

That means roughly five hours on trains for the round trip. It can be done, and many visitors do it, but it changes what kind of day you are having. Times and fares: ÖBB and WESTbahn.

Arriving at Salzburg Hauptbahnhof

Long-distance and regional trains arrive at Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, the main station. It sits on the right bank of the Salzach, north of the old town. Salzburg’s tourism board puts the walk to the center at about 20 minutes. Trolleybus lines 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 cover it in about 10 minutes if you would rather save your legs for the fortress hill.

The station has luggage lockers and a tourist information office, which is useful if you are carrying a bag between hotels. If you plan to use buses and enter several sights, the Salzburg Card includes travel on the city’s buses (not the S-Bahn); check its current price and what it covers against your own plan.

What fits into a day

Salzburg’s historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and most of what people come to see sits within a short walk of the cathedral. Arriving around ten and leaving around six, a realistic day looks like this:

• The old town on foot, about two hours. Residenzplatz and the Domplatz, the cathedral, Kapitelplatz under the fortress, St. Peter’s, and the Getreidegasse with Mozart’s birthplace at number 9. You can do this with a paper map, a guidebook, or a self-guided audio walk such as Salzburg Essentials.
• Lunch, about an hour. Longer if you sit down somewhere popular.
• Hohensalzburg Fortress, two to three hours. Take the funicular from Festungsgasse, or walk up the path if your knees are willing. The funicular is closed for maintenance November 9–13, 2026 and January 11 to March 14, 2027; in those weeks the fortress is reached on foot. The views are the point, so go in good light. Our Hohensalzburg Fortress audio guide is one way to make sense of what you are walking through; the fortress’s own displays are another.
• The right bank on the way back. The Mirabell gardens are close to the route to the station, which makes them an easy last stop rather than a detour. If you want more of that side of the river, Across the River covers the Steingasse, the Linzer Gasse and Mirabell.

That is a full day, and a good one. It leaves out museum interiors beyond one or two; pick the one you care about most and accept that the others will wait.

If history is your reason for coming, Salzburg 1938 to 1945 happens to end at the main station, so it can double as your walk back to the train.

If you are coming from Vienna

Trim the plan. With five hours of rail around it, choose between the fortress and a slow afternoon in the old town rather than trying to do both at a run. The squares and the Getreidegasse alone make a satisfying day; the fortress rewards an unhurried visit more than a hurried one.

What a day trip cannot fit

Salzburg’s popular excursions are trips of their own, not add-ons:

• Hallstatt and the lakes. Organized tours from Salzburg are listed at about five and a half hours.
• The Eagle’s Nest and Berchtesgaden. Listed at about four and a half hours from Salzburg.
• Salt mine tours and Sound of Music bus tours to film locations outside the city. These also take a half day or more.
• Hellbrunn’s trick fountains. They are outside the old town, and they run only in season (March 28 to November 1 in 2026, per Hellbrunn).
• The evening. Concerts, a beer hall supper, and the old town after the day visitors leave. A day trip usually catches its train before any of that begins.

Any one of these can fill the time you would otherwise spend in the old town. If one of them is the real reason you are going, plan it as its own day.

When an overnight is worth it

Stay the night if any of these apply:

• You are coming from Vienna and want more than four or five hours on the ground.
• You want the fortress and the old town at an easy pace, plus a museum interior or two.
• You want an evening. A concert, dinner without watching the clock, or a walk through the lit lanes. Salzburg After Dark is built for that hour.
• You want one of the excursions above. Sleeping in Salzburg turns Hallstatt or Berchtesgaden into a morning start instead of a dawn one.
• It is December. The Christmas markets stay open into the evening, and in December the evening starts before half past four.

If none of those apply, a day trip from Munich is a sensible way to see Salzburg, and nobody should talk you out of it.

A few practical notes

• Check the return train before you leave. Know your last comfortable departure and work backward from it.
• Wear shoes for stone. The old town is paved, much of it in setts, and the fortress path climbs the whole hill.
• Expect crowds at the obvious places. A 2025 visitor-flow study for the city’s tourism board named the little square outside Mozart’s birthplace as a bottleneck from May to late October and in December. Go early or late if you can.
• Phones and maps both work. The old town is small enough that getting lost is brief.

Where to go from here

If you can stay longer, our one-day plan for Salzburg on foot shows how a full day fits together. If you are still deciding, our Salzburg page gathers what we know about walking the city. If you want to see how a self-guided walk works on your phone before you commit to anything, how it works explains it plainly. And if you would rather wander with a map and no plan at all, Salzburg is small and patient enough to reward that too.

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Hohensalzburg Fortress sells two main tickets. The Basic ticket (Basis in German) covers the funicular up and down, the courtyards and bastions, the Panorama tour and the museums. The All-inclusive ticket adds two things: the princely rooms and the Magic Theater. Both come in a cheaper footpath version for people who walk up, and that version still includes the ride down. In summer the fortress has also sold a short-hours Panorama ticket without the museums.

Below is what each ticket covers, how the funicular and the footpath compare, what is and is not step-free, the funicular closures announced for winter 2026 to 2027, and how much time to allow. We checked the fortress’s own pages on October 8, 2026. Hours, prices and inclusions change, so look at the fortress’s tickets page before you go.

What each ticket includes

Basic ticket

• The FestungsBahn funicular up and down
• The castle grounds: courtyards, bastions and the chapel
• The Panorama tour (the salt store, the dungeon, the lookout platform of the Reckturm, the wall walk and the Salzburg Bull, a horn organ from 1502)
• The museums: the Fortress Museum, the Rainer Regiment Museum, the Marionette Museum and the armory

It does not include the princely rooms or the Magic Theater.

All-inclusive ticket

Everything in the Basic ticket, plus the princely rooms (Fürstenzimmer, sometimes called the state rooms) and the Magic Theater. The princely rooms are the late Gothic apartments on the top floor of the central palace block. If those rooms are the reason you are going, this is the ticket you need.

Footpath versions

Both tickets come in a footpath version for visitors who walk up. They cover the same areas as their funicular twins and include the ride down on the funicular. You buy them online or at the ticket office on the footpath, in the second gate arch on the way up.

The summer Panorama ticket

This one is for the view. By the fortress operator’s 2026 press text and the city tourism board, it is sold only from May to September, between 8:30 and 10 a.m. and between 6 and 8 p.m. It covers the funicular up and down, the castle grounds and the Panorama tour, but no museums, princely rooms or Magic Theater. It is not on the online ticket page, so plan to buy it on site, and check before you rely on it in a new season.

Prices

Prices differ by ticket, by age and by whether you ride the funicular or walk up. Children aged 6 to 14 pay less, and the tourism board also lists reduced rates for visitors with a disability and for groups. We do not repeat them here because they change. The fortress’s tickets page has the current list.

Online tickets and the Salzburg Card

The fortress says tickets bought online are valid for six months and do not need to be exchanged. They save the ticket queue, but not every wait: the funicular and the museums have limited capacity, and the fortress warns there can still be waiting times on site. The Salzburg Card works directly as a ticket. The fortress lists the funicular up and down, the museums and the princely rooms as covered. The Magic Theater is not on that list, so ask if it matters to you.

Is the funicular included?

Yes, in the tickets sold “with funicular”, both ways. In the footpath tickets only the ride down is included. The funicular itself is run by Salzburg AG, not by the fortress, and keeps its own timetable. Its valley station is at Festungsgasse 4, a short walk behind the cathedral from Kapitelplatz. A car leaves about every ten minutes and the ride takes under a minute. The line has run since 1892, and its operator calls it the oldest funicular still in operation in Austria. The last ride down varies through the year and is posted at the top station.

Or walk up

The footpath starts right next to the valley station and climbs about 100 meters, partly on gravel, steep in places, with steps. The fortress gives the walk as 15 to 20 minutes on one page and about 30 minutes on another, so allow half an hour if you are not in a hurry. Wear good shoes. The fortress says the path is not barrier-free and not suitable for strollers.

The footpath enters the fortress by a different gate from the funicular. If you are using our tour, follow the signs from the courtyard to the FestungsBahn top station, where it begins.

Is there an audio guide?

Not from the fortress itself. Its own answer is that there are no audio guides; instead there are information boards in German, English and Italian, and some audio stations. At the Info Point, visitors with walking impairments can borrow tablets with a video tour of the indoor areas, and deaf visitors can borrow tablets with a sign-language video guide. From May to September the fortress has also offered a free 30-minute Quick-Tour of the outdoor areas in German and English, at 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., for anyone with a valid ticket.

If you would like stories rather than labels, our Hohensalzburg Fortress tour is one option. It is a self-guided audio tour you play on your phone, nine stops from the terrace by the funicular to the last bastion, about 80 minutes without the museum interiors. Every main story is told from a place the standard Basic ticket reaches, and an optional layer covers the princely rooms for All-inclusive ticket holders. Fortress admission is not included: you buy your ticket from the fortress as usual. How our tours work explains the rest.

Step-free access

The funicular is the only step-free way up. The fortress’s step-free entrance is the valley station at Festungsgasse 4.

At the top, by the fortress’s own account:

• The panorama terrace and the bastion by the top station are fully accessible.
• An elevator in the bell tower reaches the castle courtyard, the armory exhibition, the tavern, the Kuenburg bastion and the Marionette Museum.
• The interior of the fortress is not barrier-free. The Panorama tour, which leads up to the lookout platform of the Reckturm, is not among the places the elevator reaches, and the fortress says most museums cannot be reached with a stroller.
• Barrier-free toilets are next to the Info Point and in the fortress restaurant.
• Expect gravel paths, steep stone steps and bumpy paving in places. Strollers can be left at the Info Point, secured with your own lock.

Funicular closures, winter 2026 to 2027

The fortress has announced two maintenance closures of the funicular:

• November 9–13, 2026. The funicular is closed. The fortress’s opening-hours page says the walking path and outdoor areas stay open while the museums and indoor areas close, but its printed 2026 folder lists these as closing days, so check before you go.
• January 11 to March 14, 2027. The funicular is closed. The walking path, outdoor areas, museums and indoor areas stay open. The city tourism board describes the work as rebuilding for accessibility.

The fortress names the funicular as its only step-free way up, so plan on no step-free access during either window. The fortress also says no online tickets are sold during these periods. Dates can move, so check the opening hours page close to your visit.

How long to allow

Opening hours as published on October 8, 2026:

• January to April and October to December: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• May to September: 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., with the museums, princely rooms and Magic Theater open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Easter and Advent weekends: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. On December 24 the interiors close at 2 p.m.

Last admission is 30 minutes before closing. The outdoor areas stay open after the museums close.

For a rough plan: add the ride (under a minute, plus any queue in season) or the walk (up to half an hour) to the time at the top. Our own route through the courtyards, bastions and Panorama tour takes about 80 minutes. The museums and the princely rooms come on top of that, and we have not timed them, so leave a generous margin before the museums close.

Before you go

Choose the Basic ticket for the walls, the views and the museums, and the All-inclusive ticket if you want the princely rooms or the Magic Theater. Check the hours and the funicular closures on the fortress’s site, and bring sun protection: the bastions sit above the rooftops. When you come back down, the old town is at your feet. If you would like its story too, Salzburg Essentials is a self-guided walk through the streets below, and our Salzburg page gathers the rest of our planning notes.

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Content note. This article describes persecution, deportation and murder under the Nazi regime, including the murder of a teenager and of sick and disabled people. It does so without graphic detail.

Salzburg went to war in 1939 as part of Nazi Germany. Local Nazis took over the governor’s office and the town hall on the evening of March 11, 1938, and German troops crossed the border the next morning. Over the next seven years the regime drove out and robbed Salzburg’s Jews and murdered many of them, and persecuted Sinti, sick and disabled people, political opponents and others. American bombing raids hit the city from October 1944, and on May 4, 1945, it was handed over to US troops without a fight.

To understand 1938 you have to start earlier. We report what the sources show and say so where historians disagree.

Before 1914: a provincial city of the monarchy

• 1816. Salzburg comes to Austria for good, at first as a minor district run from Upper Austria. It becomes a crown land of its own around the middle of the century.
• By the end of the monarchy the emperor’s governor sits in the Neue Residenz, the long white building with the Glockenspiel on the Residenzplatz.

1914 to 1918: Sarajevo and the First World War

• June 28, 1914. In Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old member of the group Young Bosnia, shoots the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie. In Salzburg, the provincial archive’s director writes, it had been “a quite normal summer Sunday” until the news arrived.
• July 28, 1914. Emperor Franz Joseph signs the declaration of war on Serbia at Bad Ischl. Historians still disagree about who carried the most responsibility for the war.
• 1915 to 1918. Food is rationed from 1915. By the end of 1917 the city alone has lost 307 men.
• September 19, 1918. About 4,000 hungry people gather on the Mozartplatz. Stones break the windows of the governor’s building, and food stores and hotels are looted.

1918 to 1921: the end of the monarchy and the treaty

• November 11–12, 1918. Emperor Karl renounces any share in government. The next day German-Austria is proclaimed a republic and declared part of the German Republic.
• September 10, 1919. Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain: a small state of 6.5 million people, without South Tyrol, renamed “Republic of Austria” and barred by Article 88 from giving up its independence without the League of Nations’ consent.
• May 29, 1921. In a vote with no legal force, about 99 percent of those voting in the province back joining Germany. Recorded figures differ slightly. Allied pressure stops further votes.

1922 to 1937: crisis, dictatorship and Nazi terror

• 1922 to 1934. Across Austria, inflation peaks in 1922 and a banking crisis follows in 1931; by one economic history’s count, unemployment reaches about a quarter of the workforce in 1934.
• April 24, 1932. The Nazi party wins 20.79 percent in Salzburg’s provincial election.
• March 1933. Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss uses a procedural crisis to stop parliament from meeting again and governs by decree. Historians still argue over what to call his regime.
• June 19, 1933. The Nazi party is banned in Austria and turns to bomb attacks.
• July 11, 1934. A Nazi bomb explodes outside an inn in the Müllner Hauptstraße. Hermine Graupner, a 25-year-old seamstress from Graz, dies of her injuries the next day. Two weeks later Nazis murder Dollfuss in Vienna during a failed putsch.

1938: the Anschluss

• February 12. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg meets Hitler near Berchtesgaden and largely gives way to his demands.
• March 11. Before any German soldier has crossed the border, Salzburg’s still-illegal Nazi leader, Anton Wintersteiger, takes over Governor Franz Rehrl’s office, and the SA occupies the town hall.
• March 12. By the Salzburg papers’ account, German troops cross at the Walserberg at about 8 a.m. Arrests begin the same day, and within weeks the first Salzburgers are taken to the Dachau concentration camp.
• April 10. In the regime’s plebiscite, the official figures printed in the press gave the city 44,752 yes votes and 201 no votes. The historian Ernst Hanisch judges that the vote cannot be called free. He also argues that hardly anyone here foresaw a new war or the murder of the Jews, but that the exclusion of the Jews was widely welcomed and met no protest.

April 30, 1938: the book burning on the Residenzplatz

The Nazi teachers’ association, with the Hitler Youth, burned about 1,200 books taken from libraries, bookshops and homes on the Residenzplatz, near St. Michael’s church. Stefan Zweig, who had lived in Salzburg until 1934, was among the authors, and the city archive notes that Catholic authors and politicians of the toppled regime were targeted above all. It is often called the only book burning in Austria, but the city’s own historians corrected that in 2018: others are known from 1938, among them in Thalgau, Linz, Steyr, Villach and Bregenz.

Persecution and deportation

• Before 1938. The 1934 census counted 239 Jews in the whole province.
• November 9–10, 1938. In the pogrom night, SA men wreck seven Jewish shops and the synagogue on the Lasserstraße. The SD, the Nazi security service, reported internally that this was done on orders, not out of the popular anger the press described. Forty-one Jewish men are arrested in the city, and on November 12, twenty-six Jewish men from Salzburg are taken to Dachau. All appear to have been released by January 1939, on condition that they leave the Reich at once.
• May 1939. The Jewish community of Salzburg is dissolved by decree.
• 1938 to 1945. In 2013 the historian Gert Kerschbaumer counted at least 84 people from the city murdered as victims of racial persecution, not counting those who had left Salzburg before 1938. One family remembered in the Linzer Gasse is Ernst, Ida and Herbert Löwy of number 5. They fled to Prague, were deported to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and were murdered there, at the latest in March 1944; their exact dates of death are not recorded. Herbert was 17.

Others were persecuted too. Sinti held in a camp in Leopoldskron-Moos were deported in April 1943, most to Auschwitz. A 2024 study by the provincial archive names 264 patients of the provincial mental hospital murdered in the Nazi “euthanasia” program. People, almost all of them men, were prosecuted for homosexuality, and political opponents were imprisoned and executed. From October 1938 the Gestapo had its headquarters in the Franciscan friary.

The Stolpersteine

On August 22, 2007, the artist Gunter Demnig laid the first of Salzburg’s Stolpersteine (“stumbling stones”), among them those in front of Linzer Gasse 5 for the Löwy family. Each is a 10-centimeter concrete cube with a brass plate naming one person, set into the pavement. As of October 2026 the Salzburg project counts 544 in the city.

Wartime Salzburg, 1939 to 1945

• From 1939. Prisoners of war and then civilian forced laborers, from Poland and later the occupied Soviet Union, are put to work in the city.
• 1941 to 1945. Prisoners of war and forced laborers build the new Staatsbrücke over the Salzach. Forced laborers also dig most of the air-raid tunnels in the city’s hills.

October 1944 to May 1945: the bombing raids

• October 16, 1944. The first American raid kills 245 people, and the cathedral dome collapses.
• Through May 1, 1945. Fifteen raids in all, aimed mainly at the railway, kill 547 people. Research for the Stolpersteine project found that foreign workers were kept out of the hillside shelters that they had mostly built.

May 4, 1945: the Americans arrive

In the early hours the city’s battle commander, Colonel Hans Lepperdinger, refused an order to defend Salzburg, and at 6 a.m. he announced on the radio that he would hand the city over without a fight. At 11:30 a.m. the first American tank crossed the Staatsbrücke, followed by troops of the US 3rd Infantry Division. The city later made Lepperdinger an honorary citizen. In his history of Nazi Salzburg (second edition, 2018), the historian Johannes Hofinger titles his chapter on Lepperdinger “From ‘convinced National Socialist’ to ‘savior of Salzburg'”.

After 1945: how Salzburg remembers

For decades Austria described itself as Hitler’s first victim, until Chancellor Franz Vranitzky acknowledged Austrians’ share of responsibility before parliament in 1991. Since 2002 a memorial on the station square has carried the city’s own words: crimes of National Socialism happened here too, and citizens of the city became guilty of them.

Places you can visit on your own

All of these are outdoors and free to see:

• Residenzplatz. A memorial to the book burning, a book skeleton under glass, has been set into the edge of the square since 2018.
• Staatsbrücke. A plaque from 2007 remembers the prisoners of war and forced laborers who built the bridge, and neon lettering at the bridgeheads repeats its text.
• Linzer Gasse. Several Stolpersteine are set into this old street, including those for the Löwy family at number 5.
• The synagogue on the Lasserstraße. Wrecked in 1938 and reopened in 1968, with a memorial stone in front reading “Niemals vergessen” (“Never forget”). It is the Jewish community’s house of prayer, so view it respectfully from the street.
• Südtiroler Platz. Deportation transports and prisoners passed through this station square. Heimo Zobernig’s memorial stands in the grove on its west side, with Stolpersteine for forced laborers in front of it.

To hear this history told where it happened, our Salzburg 1938 to 1945 tour, coming soon, will be one way: a self-guided audio walk from the Residenzplatz to the station square that begins in 1914 and names the people whose stories it follows. How our tours work explains the app. The book burning is told on our old-town walk, Salzburg Essentials.

Going further

To read on, the Stolpersteine Salzburg website publishes biographies of the people named on the stones, and the city archive and the DÖW in Vienna publish documents and studies. Our Salzburg page has more on the city. Each Stolperstein you pass gives a name, the dates, and what happened to that person.

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After dark, Salzburg is a walking city with the lights left on for you. The shops close around six, the lanes thin out, and the city floodlights its town hall, its churches and part of the Mönchsberg cliff. A walk of about 2.3 km, from the Waagplatz through the old town, across the river and up the Linzer Gasse, takes in most of it in about 90 minutes, on streets mapped as lit and with no mapped steps. Here is what you can see, what is open, and what to watch your footing for.

When it gets dark, and when the lights go off

Sunset in Salzburg is about 16:19 in late December, 18:21 in mid-October and 21:12 in late June, and civil dusk ends 30 to 40 minutes later. In the narrow lanes under the Mönchsberg it probably feels dark sooner than that.

The floodlights do not burn all night. Local press reports put the switch-off at about 23:00 from November to March and about midnight from April to October, with August a little later. That is our reading of two news articles, not a published timetable, and the city also turns the lights off for events such as Earth Hour. The street lamps are LED and, according to the city’s head of public lighting, are dimmed in steps through the night. In practice: start an hour after sunset and you will see the buildings lit.

What is lit

The city’s list of floodlit objects, as reported in 2022, includes the cathedral, St. Peter’s church, the Kollegienkirche on Universitätsplatz, the Old Town Hall, the Glockenspiel, the Mozart monument, the Michaelitor gate, the Neutor and the horse pond, St. Mark’s church in the Gstättengasse, the Mönchsberg wall, St. Sebastian’s church, the Holy Trinity church, Mirabell Palace, and the footbridge now called the Marko-Feingold-Steg (renamed in 2021, formerly Makartsteg).

Hohensalzburg Fortress is not named on that list, and we could not confirm from a first-hand source when it is lit, so we will not promise it.

Some places you might expect to glow do not: the painted front of Waagplatz 1, the Bürgerspital and the mosaic at the old witches’ tower site are lit only by street lamps or wall lanterns.

An evening route through the old town

This is the route of our Salzburg After Dark audio guide, which tells the city’s darker history: its courts, the sorcery trials of the late 1600s, the plague years and a rockfall. The streets are public, so you can walk them with a map and your own thoughts just as well.

The Waagplatz and the Judengasse

Start on the Waagplatz, about 140 meters from the Mozart statue. The square has been car-free since July 2025 and is paved with new granite slabs. Turn into the Judengasse, a narrow, level, lit lane of small shops. Walk west and the white town hall tower appears above the end of the lane.

The Old Town Hall and Universitätsplatz

From the mouth of the Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse you see the Old Town Hall front floodlit, with the figure of Justice in her niche above the door. Then go through the Ritzerbogen, a public street arch, onto Universitätsplatz, where the Kollegienkirche’s pale front is floodlit.

The horse pond, the Bürgerspital and the Gstättengasse

At Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz the horse pond and the Neutor are floodlit. Expect building-site fences around the square until the festival works end. North under the cliff, the Bürgerspital, the old citizens’ hospital, has wall lanterns and an archway into its arcaded courtyard. We found no published hours for that courtyard, so treat it as a bonus.

The Gstättengasse runs on under the rock to St. Mark’s church, which is floodlit against the cliff. In 1669 part of the Mönchsberg fell here in the middle of the night, and a plaque on the church records the dead. The city still employs cliff cleaners who abseil down the rock to clear loose stone. Their rope calls, “Hauser” and “Jager”, are said by the trade to be named after two of the first men to do the job; that is their own tradition, and we found no record that confirms it.

Along the river to the Staatsbrücke

Follow the Franz-Josef-Kai along the Salzach to the Staatsbrücke. From the bridge you can look back at the town hall tower and the fortress above the old town, and downstream to the Marko-Feingold-Steg and St. Mark’s under the cliff.

The Linzer Gasse and the witches’ tower corner

Across the bridge, the Platzl leads into the Linzer Gasse, a pedestrian lane that climbs about 8 meters past the floodlit front of St. Sebastian’s church. At the corner of Paris-Lodron-Straße and Wolf-Dietrich-Straße, a dark mosaic and a small plaque mark the site of the Hexenturm, the “witches’ tower”. The plaque speaks of persecuted women. The trial records show the tower was a prison for only about a year, from the summer of 1678 into 1679, and that most of those executed in the trials were children and young people, more than two thirds of them male and nearly all from the begging poor. The Mirabellplatz bus stops are about 270 meters away.

What is open in the evening

• The Mirabell gardens, free, until 22:00 from October to April and 23:00 from April to September, as published by the City of Salzburg on 8 October 2026. Some parts close in winter. Mirabell Palace itself is floodlit.
• The fortress, in summer. As published on 8 October 2026, it is open until 20:00 from May to September and until 17:00 the rest of the year. From May to September the museums close at 19:00, and the courtyards and bastions stay open until 20:00. The FestungsBahn funicular runs later than the fortress for part of the year (in October the last ride up is at 20:00 and the last ride down at 20:30, by the operator’s page), so check what is open at the top before you ride up. Check the fortress’s hours and the funicular’s times before you plan around them.
• Restaurants and bars. The Gstättengasse has pubs and clubs listed as open until 2:00 or later at weekends. Expect noise and groups there on Friday and Saturday nights.
• Not open: St. Peter’s Cemetery (it closes at 18:00 from October to March and at 20:00 from April to September), most church interiors, and the covered passages off the Getreidegasse, which have no published evening hours.

Practical notes for an evening walk

• Lighting. Every street and square on the route above is tagged as lit in OpenStreetMap. The sidewalks at the last junction, by the witches’ tower site, carry no lighting tag.
• Wet stone. Granite slabs, setts and paving stones are slippery when wet or icy, especially on the Linzer Gasse climb.
• Crossings. Two crossings with traffic lights at Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, two without lights across the Franz-Josef-Kai by the Haus der Natur museum, one with lights from the Staatsbrücke to the Platzl, and a zebra crossing at the end. Trolleybuses run on several of these roads.
• Bikes. Cyclists share the downstream path of the Staatsbrücke and may ride both ways in the Linzer Gasse.
• Help. The European emergency number, 112, works in Austria.
• Getting back. Buses leave from the Mirabellplatz. Map data shows a taxi rank by the Haus der Natur from 22:00 to 4:00.

What we cannot tell you

We cannot tell you how busy a lane will be on your night, how dark the side streets get after the lamps are dimmed, whether a courtyard gate is open, or whether a facade is behind scaffolding. Our notes come from map data, the city’s lighting list as reported in the press, opening hours as published on the dates given, and dated night photographs. Use them as a starting point and your own eyes on the night.

Where to go from here

If you would like the stories that go with this route, Salzburg After Dark is made for exactly this walk, and How it works explains what you get on your phone. For daylight, Salzburg Essentials, Across the River and Hohensalzburg Fortress cover the old town, the right bank and the fortress, and you can see all our Salzburg tours with a map of their start points. If you have the whole day, our one-day plan for Salzburg on foot ends with this walk. Or simply walk out after dinner and look up.

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One day is enough to walk the heart of Salzburg, as long as you accept that you will meet the city rather than finish it. The plan below has four parts: the old town on the left bank in the morning, the right bank and the Mirabell gardens before lunch, Hohensalzburg Fortress in the afternoon, and the lit old town after dark. Three of the parts are walks of about two kilometers on mostly level streets; the fortress is shorter but climbs. All of it works with a map, a phone, or one of our audio guides.

The day at a glance

• Morning, about 90 minutes: the old town, from Mozartplatz to the Mozartsteg footbridge (about 2 km).
• Late morning, about 90 minutes: across the river, up the Steingasse and the Linzer Gasse to the Mirabell gardens (about 2.1 km).
• Afternoon, about 80 minutes plus any museums: Hohensalzburg Fortress, starting at the funicular station at Festungsgasse 4.
• Evening, about 90 minutes: an old-town walk after dark from the Waagplatz (about 2.3 km).

The times allow for stopping and looking. The four routes add up to about 7 km, before the walks between them and the detours nobody plans.

Morning: the old town on the left bank

Start at the Mozart statue on Mozartplatz and work west: Residenzplatz, the cathedral square, Kapitelplatz with its view up to the fortress, St. Peter’s Cemetery, the festival halls on Max-Reinhardt-Platz, the horse pond at Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Getreidegasse 9 (where Mozart was born in 1756), the Alter Markt, and finally the Salzach. It is about 2 km and close to flat: the only rise you will notice is the few meters up into the cemetery.

This is the route of our Salzburg Essentials audio guide, which ends in the middle of the Mozartsteg with the river running away on both sides.

Practical notes for the morning:

• St. Peter’s Cemetery has gates and hours. As published by St. Peter’s Abbey (read 5 October 2026), it opens at 6:30 and closes at 20:00 from April to September and at 18:00 from October to March. The catacombs in the cliff have their own hours and a small admission fee. If you are late, you can go round the cemetery through the cathedral square and the Franziskanergasse.
• Two steps lead into the cemetery from the mill yard.
• Cobbles cover about 400 meters: the mill yard, the cemetery, the abbey courtyard and the Alter Markt.
• Building sites. Mozartplatz has been under reconstruction since April 2026. The festival district is a building site: the new Festival Centre behind the horse pond has been going up since 2024, and work inside the Mönchsberg began in October 2026. The Neutor tunnel beside it is closed to traffic for about six months from 14 September 2026 but stays open on foot.
• Seasonal squares. The cathedral square carries a festival stage for roughly mid-June to early September, and the Christmas market takes over the cathedral square, Residenzplatz and part of Kapitelplatz from 19 November 2026 to 1 January 2027.
• Passages. We found no published hours for the covered passages between the Getreidegasse and Universitätsplatz. The Ritzerbogen arch and the Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse are public streets.
• Crowds. A city crowding study named the square in front of Mozart’s birthplace (Hagenauerplatz) as a bottleneck from May to October and in December.

Late morning: across the river to Mirabell

The right-bank end of the Mozartsteg is where Across the River begins. The route climbs gently through the Steintor and the cobbled Steingasse to the Platzl, up the Linzer Gasse to St. Sebastian’s Cemetery, down to Makartplatz, and through Mirabell Palace into the gardens. About 2.1 km, no admission needed.

At St. Sebastian’s, the Mozart family grave carries Leopold Mozart’s name, although the research we relied on suggests he is probably not buried in it.

Practical notes:

• The Steingasse has cobbles, no sidewalks, and one-way traffic that comes toward you as you walk toward the Platzl. Keep to the side.
• St. Sebastian’s Cemetery keeps shorter hours than St. Peter’s: the city’s leaflet gives 9:00 to 18:00 from April to October and 9:00 to 16:00 from November to March, and the tourist board lists slightly different times. Check the gate.
• Makartplatz is a construction site from 1 September 2026 for about three years.
• The Mirabell gardens are free. The City of Salzburg lists them as open 5:00 to 23:00 from April to September and 7:00 to 22:00 in the colder months (read 8 October 2026), with some parts closed in winter. The palace’s Marble Hall is usually free to visit at set hours, but it closes for weddings, events and renovation work, so check before you go.
• Steps: five steps out of the cemetery (avoidable) and 15 up to the dwarf garden. For a view, the Imbergstiege off the Steingasse climbs 250 to 260 steps to a lookout on the Kapuzinerberg; allow 20 to 25 minutes there and back.

Then find lunch: you have walked about 4 km.

Afternoon: Hohensalzburg Fortress

From the Mirabell gardens, walk back over the Marko-Feingold-Steg (the footbridge was called the Makartsteg until 2021), about 500 meters to the old-town bank, then through the old town to Kapitelplatz. The FestungsBahn valley station, Festungsgasse 4, is about 90 meters beyond the square’s south-west corner. Our Hohensalzburg Fortress audio guide starts outside it.

Two ways up: the funicular ride takes under a minute, and the footpath is about 500 meters with a climb of about 70 meters to the footpath ticket office, roughly a quarter of an hour at an unhurried pace.

Practical notes:

• You need a fortress ticket. As listed on the fortress’s own site (read 8 October 2026), the Basic ticket covers the funicular, the courtyards and bastions, the panorama tour and the museums, and the All-inclusive ticket adds the princely rooms and the Magic Theater. Walkers can buy cheaper footpath versions of both. Prices and contents change, so check the fortress’s ticket page before you go.
• Hours change with the season. As published on 8 October 2026, the fortress opens 9:30 to 17:00 from October to April and 8:30 to 20:00 from May to September, with last admission 30 minutes before closing. In winter, aim to be up by mid-afternoon. See the fortress’s opening-hours page.
• Funicular closures: 9 to 13 November 2026 (the museums and interiors close as well) and 11 January to 14 March 2027 (the footpath stays open).
• Not everything inside is step-free. The fortress says an elevator in the bell tower reaches the courtyard, the armory exhibition, the Kuenburg bastion and the marionette museum.

If you would rather go up first thing, start at the valley station when it opens and walk down to Mozartplatz afterward.

Evening: the old town after dark

Salzburg After Dark starts on the Waagplatz, about 140 meters from the Mozart statue, and was made for the evening. It runs about 2.3 km on lit streets with no mapped steps, crosses the river on the Staatsbrücke, and ends near the Mirabellplatz bus stops.

For more on what you will see, read our guide to Salzburg at night.

Sunset is about 16:19 in late December, 18:21 in mid-October and 21:12 in late June. Local press reports put the floodlight switch-off around 23:00 in winter and around midnight in summer, so a walk started an hour after sunset sees the buildings lit. That comes from press reports, not a published timetable.

Notes for the whole day

• Shoes matter more than the itinerary. Granite slabs and cobbles are slippery when wet or icy.
• Crossings: there are traffic lights at the riverside roads and at Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz.
• Hours and prices move. Check the venue’s own page on the day.
• None of this needs a guide. Every route here is on public streets, squares and bridges, so a map and a curious mood will do.

Where to go from here

If you would like to hear the story of the city as you walk it, our Salzburg tours follow these routes, and you can see them all with a map of where each one starts. How it works explains what you get on your phone. With a second day, a walk such as Salzburg 1938 to 1945 covers a part of the city’s story this plan leaves out. And if you would rather just walk, you now know where the steps and the closing gates are.

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