Austria Archives - The3DTravel Self-guided audio walking tours Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:35:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://the3dtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/the3dtravel-icon-512-100x100.png Austria Archives - The3DTravel 32 32 Mozart’s Vienna: the Ten Years After Salzburg https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-mozart/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:31:34 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-mozart/ One man's ten years in his own letters, from the archbishop's table to the Burggarten, in nine stops

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The popular version of Mozart’s story ends with a genius dying poor, poisoned by a rival and thrown into a pauper’s grave. This walk tests that version against the best witness there is, his own letters. It starts where he broke with the Archbishop of Salzburg in 1781 and follows him through the old town: the cathedral where he married a day before his father’s consent arrived, the only one of his apartments that survives, the room where he started out as a free musician, the house where the emperor gave him a post, the square where he wrote his begging letters, the site of the theater where three of his operas opened, and the street where he died. It ends at his monument, with the answer to the question he set himself in 1781. No tickets needed; an optional museum visit at Domgasse 5. The optional deep dives add about 7 minutes.

The stops

  1. The House of the Teutonic Order: Three Words in May
  2. St. Stephen’s: One Day Too Early
  3. Domgasse 5: The Father Comes to Visit
  4. Milchgasse 1: Haven’t I Enough to Do?
  5. Tuchlauben 27: The Emperor’s Musician
  6. Judenplatz: The Letters to Puchberg
  7. Michaelerplatz: Three First Nights
  8. Rauhensteingasse 8: The Last Year
  9. The Burggarten: Honor, Fame and Money

Finding the start

Start on the Singerstraße opposite No. 7, the stone portal of the House of the Teutonic Order, about 200 meters from the Stephansplatz underground station (U1, U3): walk past the south side of the cathedral into the Singerstraße; No. 7 is on the left, beside the church of the Teutonic Order.

Terrain and access

Level and step-free, about three and a half kilometers through the old town, mostly pedestrian zones on paving, with cobbles in the Domgasse and on the Judenplatz and gravel and asphalt paths in the Burggarten. Streets with traffic at the start (Singerstraße), in the Schulerstraße, on the Michaelerplatz (horse carriages), at the Neuer Markt and the Albertinaplatz. The Burggarten is locked at night (seasonal hours); the walk can then end on the Albertinaplatz. No admissions needed; the Mozarthaus museum at Domgasse 5 is optional and ticketed.

Tickets

No admissions needed; the Mozarthaus museum at Domgasse 5 is optional and ticketed.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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For more than six hundred years one family ruled a growing empire from a handful of streets in the middle of Vienna. This walk follows the Habsburgs through them: a cathedral begun by a duke who forged his family’s rank, a roof that carries both the emperor’s eagle and the Republic’s, a plague column on which the emperor kneels, a street aimed at the palace gate, a palace front that took a century and a half to finish, a gate that runs out of room for its titles, a palace the empire never completed, the church where the family married and kept its hearts, a surviving piece of the old city wall, and, at the end, the crypt where the last public Habsburg burial was turned away under its titles and let in only as a mortal human being. No tickets needed; optional layers for the crypts, the Treasury and the stories behind the stones.

The stops

  1. St. Stephen’s: A Forger Builds a Cathedral
  2. The Roof: Two Eagles and a Fire
  3. The Plague Column: The Emperor on His Knees
  4. The Kohlmarkt: A Street Aimed at a Palace
  5. Michaelerplatz: The Front Door and the House Without Eyebrows
  6. In der Burg: The Gate of Titles
  7. Heldenplatz: The Palace That Was Never Finished
  8. Josefsplatz: Weddings and Hearts
  9. Albertinaplatz: The Wall, the Palace and the Cellar
  10. The Capuchin Crypt: Knocking at the Door

Finding the start

Start on Stephansplatz in front of the west front of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the side with the great round-arched door, standing a little to one side out of the stream of people. The Stephansplatz subway station (lines U1 and U3) opens onto the square.

Terrain and access

Level all the way, about two kilometers on paving and some cobbles, with no steps on the route. Crowded pedestrian zones around the cathedral, on the Graben and the Kohlmarkt, especially on weekend afternoons, so mornings are best. Cars and horse cabs drive through the palace courtyard and around Michaelerplatz; traffic at Albertinaplatz and Neuer Markt, with marked crossings. No admissions needed. The Imperial Crypt (ticket, lift down), the ducal crypt under the cathedral (guided tours only, not step-free), the heart crypt (Sundays after High Mass or by appointment) and the Treasury are optional.

Tickets

No admissions needed; the cathedral is free to enter, while the Imperial Crypt, the Treasury and the court library need tickets.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Four Powers, One City: Vienna 1945 to 1955 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-four-powers/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:31:07 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-four-powers/ The real occupied city behind the 1949 film The Third Man, from the Soviet memorial to the Hoher Markt

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A famous black-and-white film made Vienna’s ruins look like a city of shadows and crooks. This walk follows the film to its doorways, squares and sewer hatch, and then tells what it left out: ten years in which four armies ran one city. A Soviet soldier on a column that Austria is bound by treaty to keep. Four generals at one table, deadlocked over a paragraph. A black market a short walk from the film’s sewer entrance, and the real trade in penicillin, kept apart from the film’s fiction. An opera house that burned and waited ten years. Four soldiers of four armies in one jeep. People taken by the occupiers and brought home years later, one of them on a stretcher. And a foreign minister whose famous words were said indoors, not where everyone remembers. No film clips, music or quotations; no tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Schwarzenbergplatz: The Soldier and the Generals
  2. Karlsplatz: The Hatch and the Market
  3. Behind the Opera: Requisitioned
  4. Josefsplatz: A Dead Man’s Front Door
  5. Schreyvogelgasse 8: The Doorway
  6. Am Hof: The Kiosk That Never Was
  7. Maria am Gestade: The Newest Old Steps
  8. Hoher Markt: Free, Indoors

Finding the start

Start on the west sidewalk of Schwarzenbergplatz, level with the middle of the Haus der Industrie (Schwarzenbergplatz 4) across the square, with the Soviet war memorial visible down the square to the south. Trams D and 71 stop at Schwarzenbergplatz nearby; the U-Bahn station Karlsplatz (U1, U2, U4) is about 600 meters west.

Terrain and access

About 3.7 kilometers, almost level, on paved sidewalks and, from Josefsplatz on, cobbled squares and lanes. The main route is step-free: the stairs at the Mölker Steig and at Maria am Gestade are optional and never needed. Busy crossings with lights and acoustic signals at Schwarzenbergplatz, Karlsplatz, Friedrichstrasse and the Ring; quiet lanes after the opera. No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

Tickets

No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Vienna After Dark: Plague, Executions and the Basilisk https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-after-dark/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:30:53 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-after-dark/ What the old city feared in the dark, and what was really there, on lit streets from Stephansplatz to the Sonnenfelsgasse

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Vienna’s dark side, told straight and labeled where it is legend. A square that was a graveyard, with gates locked at night. A court whose clock struck for no happy man, and the only woman Vienna ever sentenced to death as a witch. A drunken bagpiper in a plague pit, and the real street singer the death register could only call Augustin N. A fortress built against the city’s own people. A gate where the plague dead piled up. A monster in a well that turned out to be a stone. A doctor whose epitaph calls him beggar and nothing. And the professor who, in the same years, helped end torture and put new lamps on these streets. History, not horror: real people, named from the records, told with care. Made for the evening on lit streets, and just as good by day. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Stephansplatz: The Graveyard Under the Square
  2. The Hoher Markt: A Clock for No Happy Man
  3. The Fleischmarkt: Augustin N.
  4. The Dominikanerbastei: The Fortress That Faced the City
  5. The Stubentor: Shut at Night
  6. The Schönlaterngasse: The Basilisk in the Well
  7. The Old University: Who Stayed
  8. The Sonnenfelsgasse: The Man Who Lit the Lamps

Finding the start

Start on Stephansplatz at the far east end of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, on the open paving about ten meters from the rounded end of the choir. From the Stephansplatz subway station (U1, U3) walk around the right-hand (south) side of the cathedral, about 170 meters.

Terrain and access

About 2.2 kilometers on lit streets, almost level and step-free (the steps at the end of the Dominikanerbastei are avoided). Setts and cobbles in several lanes and on the university square, slippery when wet. No traffic lights: two zebras and otherwise crossings of quiet or shared streets. Made for the evening and usable by day; courtyards that close at night are avoided. Bars in the Schönlaterngasse and at the Stubentor are busy late. No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

Tickets

No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Salzburg 1938 to 1945: The Road from Sarajevo and the Years Under Hitler https://the3dtravel.com/tours/salzburg-ww2-history-walk/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:08:44 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/?post_type=product&p=15 From the emperor's building to the station square: how the city came to 1938, and who paid for it. Most visitors meet Salzburg's 20th century as one line about 1938. This walk tells the whole road from Sarajevo.

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The stops

  1. Residenzplatz: The Emperor’s Building
  2. Mozartplatz: Every Window
  3. The Chiemseehof: Dreadful, Dreadful
  4. Kajetanerplatz: The Courthouse
  5. Franziskanergasse: The Friary
  6. The Staatsbrücke: Beyond Recall
  7. The Linzer Gasse: Together, Anywhere
  8. The Kurgarten: Spaces for Names
  9. The Synagogue: Set Back From the Street
  10. The Station Square: Hidden, But Not Invisible

Finding the start

Start on the Residenzplatz in the old town, facing the Neue Residenz. The walk ends at the main station, which is handy if you are leaving by train.

Terrain and access

  • Almost level, with no mapped steps. Gravel paths in two parks.
  • The last leg to the station is about 1.1 km.
  • GPS can be weak in the narrow lanes; you can start those stops by hand.
  • The synagogue is seen from the street.

Tickets

No tickets needed.

Keep going

A bonus after the ending takes in Stefan Zweig’s view from the Kapuzinerberg, and it leads into Across the River.

Questions about this tour

Why does a 1938 to 1945 walk start in 1914?

Because 1938 has a long road behind it. The walk starts with the monarchy and the shots in Sarajevo, and follows the war, the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the years between, to show how 1938 became possible.

How long is it?

About 4.3 km and about two hours ten minutes, of which about 72 minutes is walking; the total includes the optional stories. The last leg to the station is about 1.1 km.

Where does it end?

At the main station forecourt, which is handy if you are leaving by train.

Is it suitable for children?

It is not made for young children. It describes persecution, deportation and murder under the Nazi regime, including the murder of children, without graphic detail.

Will GPS work everywhere?

GPS can be weak in the narrow lanes, so you can start those stops by hand. The synagogue is seen from the street.

What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Salzburg After Dark: Witches, Executioners and the Plague https://the3dtravel.com/tours/salzburg-after-dark-history-walk/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:08:42 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/?post_type=product&p=14 A walk on lit streets through the town's trials, gallows, plague years and the night the mountain fell. When Salzburg was afraid, who paid for it? History, not horror: real people, named from the records, told with care.

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The stops

  1. The Waagplatz: Where Sentences Were Read
  2. The Judengasse: A Name and Nothing Else
  3. The Old Town Hall: The Room Without a Stove
  4. Universitätsplatz: The Oven Fork
  5. The Bürgerspital: Every Coffin
  6. The Gstättengasse: Two in the Morning
  7. The Staatsbrücke: The Man Nobody Could See
  8. The Linzer Tor: The Executioner’s Book
  9. The Hexenturm: The Plaque

Finding the start

Start on the Waagplatz, the small square beside Mozartplatz in the old town.

Terrain and access

  • Made for the evening, and just as good by day. The route keeps to lit streets.
  • Almost level, with no mapped steps. One gentle climb of about 8 meters in the Linzer Gasse.
  • The stone paving is slippery when wet.
  • Four road crossings, all with lights or crosswalks.
  • Late-night bars along the Gstättengasse.

Tickets

No tickets needed.

Keep going

A bonus after the ending meets the executioner who stood godfather to Joseph Mohr, and it leads into Across the River.

Questions about this tour

Do I have to walk it at night?

No. It is made for the evening, and you can walk it by day too. The route keeps to lit streets.

Is it suitable for children?

It is not made for young children. It describes torture and the execution of children, without graphic detail. For teenagers, parents are the best judges.

Are there steps or hills?

No mapped steps. There is one gentle climb of about 8 meters in the Linzer Gasse, and the stone paving is slippery when wet.

Where does it end, and how do I get back?

At the corner of Wolf-Dietrich-Straße and Paris-Lodron-Straße. The Mirabellplatz bus stops are a few minutes away on foot.

What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Across the River: Mirabell, Steingasse and the Right Bank https://the3dtravel.com/tours/salzburg-right-bank-mirabell-walk/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:08:41 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/?post_type=product&p=13 The other half of Salzburg's old city in ten stops, from the Mozartsteg to the Mirabell gardens. The prince-archbishops built the old town for themselves. Across the river is where the town put everything else.

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The stops

  1. The Other Bank: Standing in the River
  2. The Steintor: Outside the Gate
  3. Steingasse 9: The Empty Wall
  4. The Platzl: The Doctor Who Asked for the Paupers’ Field
  5. Saint Sebastian’s: The Archbishop in the Middle
  6. The Mozart Grave: A Name in the Wrong Place
  7. Makartplatz: The House That Came Back
  8. Mirabell Palace: Two Names, One Cellar
  9. The Dwarf Garden: Two Gulden Apiece
  10. The Great Parterre: The View Back

Finding the start

Start at the right-bank end of the Mozartsteg footbridge, where Salzburg Essentials ends.

Terrain and access

  • Almost level, with cobblestones.
  • The Steingasse is narrow, has no sidewalk, and carries cars.
  • One flight of five steps, which you can avoid, and steps up to the dwarf garden.
  • An optional climb of 261 steps on the Imbergstiege.
  • St. Sebastian’s cemetery is open by day only.
  • Makartplatz is a construction site from 2026, for about three years.

Tickets

No tickets needed. Optional extra layers for the Mozart Residence (ticket required) and the Marble Hall (free at set hours when it is not booked for weddings or events).

Keep going

A bonus after the ending tells Salome Alt’s side of the story, and it leads up to the Hohensalzburg Fortress tour.

Questions about this tour

Do I need any tickets?

No. There are optional extra layers for the Mozart Residence, which needs a ticket, and the Marble Hall, which is free at set hours when it is not booked for weddings or events.

Are there steps?

One flight of five steps, which you can avoid, and steps up to the dwarf garden. The 261-step Imbergstiege climb is optional.

Is there traffic on the route?

The Steingasse is narrow, has no sidewalk, and carries cars, so keep to the side there.

Where does it start?

At the right-bank end of the Mozartsteg footbridge, where Salzburg Essentials ends.

What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Hohensalzburg Fortress: Who the Walls Were For https://the3dtravel.com/tours/hohensalzburg-fortress-audio-guide/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:08:40 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/?post_type=product&p=12 The fortress above Salzburg in nine stops, from the funicular to the last bastion. Every fortress is built against someone. This one was built against more people than you might expect.

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The stops

  1. Before You Go Up: Two Ways to the Top
  2. The Terrace: The Founder Who Had to Run
  3. The Salt Store
  4. The Reckturm: A Siege Seen From Inside
  5. The Salzburg Bull: The Town’s Alarm Clock
  6. The Courtyard: The Archbishop Who Blessed Himself
  7. The Armory: Swords Into Farm Tools
  8. The Goods Lift
  9. The Palace Block
  10. The Last Bastion: Who These Walls Were For

Finding the start

Start at the FestungsBahn funicular valley station, Festungsgasse 4, a short walk from the cathedral. The first track explains both ways up before you choose one.

Terrain and access

  • The funicular is the only step-free way up. The footpath is steep, with some steps.
  • Step-free at the top: the terrace, the courtyard, the armory, the Kuenburg bastion, and the Marionette Museum (by the bell-tower elevator).
  • Not step-free: the Reckturm stairs, about 37 steps on the goods-lift loop, the museum interiors and the princely rooms.
  • The fortress has published funicular closures for 9 to 13 November 2026 and 11 January to 14 March 2027. Check its website before you go.

Tickets

You need a fortress admission ticket, bought from the fortress. Every main story works with the standard Basis ticket, and an optional layer covers the princely rooms for All-inclusive ticket holders. This tour does not include admission. See the fortress’s own website for prices and hours.

Keep going

A bonus after the ending follows a prince-archbishop who was held here, and it leads into Salzburg Essentials in the old town below.

Questions about this tour

Is fortress admission included?

No. You buy a fortress ticket from the fortress. Every main story works with the standard Basis ticket, and an optional layer covers the princely rooms for All-inclusive ticket holders.

Can I walk up instead of taking the funicular?

Yes. The footpath is steep and partly gravel, with steps in places, and it is not suitable for wheelchairs or strollers. Allow 20 to 30 minutes. It enters the fortress by a different gate, so from the courtyard follow the signs to the FestungsBahn top station and pick up the tour on the terrace beside it. Play the first stop at the valley station before you set off.

Is it step-free?

The funicular is the only step-free way up. At the top, the terrace is level, and the elevator in the bell tower reaches the courtyard, the armory exhibition, the Kuenburg bastion and the Marionette Museum. The Panorama tour up the Reckturm, the goods-lift loop, the other museum interiors and the princely rooms have stairs.

Are there times the funicular does not run?

The fortress has published funicular closures for November 9 to 13, 2026, when the museums and interiors also close, and January 11 to March 14, 2027. Check its website before you go.

How long does it take?

About 80 minutes, plus any time you spend inside the museums.

What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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The stops

  1. Mozartplatz: The Statue
  2. Residenzplatz: The Man Who Cleared the Town
  3. Domplatz: Three Numbers on a Gate
  4. Kapitelplatz: The Bull on the Hill
  5. St. Peter’s Cemetery: Seven Crosses
  6. Festival District: The Man Whose Name Came Down
  7. Karajan-Platz: The Stones Speak of You
  8. Getreidegasse 9: The Kick
  9. Alter Markt: The Chocolate Lawsuit
  10. The Salzach: What Paid for All of It

Finding the start

Start at the Mozart statue in the middle of Mozartplatz, in the old town on the left bank of the Salzach.

Languages

Available in English, German and Spanish, and in beta in French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified). Beta editions are complete, text and audio, but have not had a full human review yet. If something reads oddly, tell us.

Terrain and access

  • Almost level, on the left bank of the old town.
  • About 400 meters of cobblestones, gravel on one square, and four road crossings.
  • Two steps at a cemetery gate, which you can avoid.
  • St. Peter’s Cemetery closes at 6 p.m. from October to March and at 8 p.m. from April to September.
  • The Domplatz is partly blocked during the summer festival and the Christmas market.

Tickets

No tickets needed. Every stop is outdoors or free to enter.

Keep going

This walk ends at the Mozartsteg. Across the River starts at the other end of the same bridge.

Questions about this tour

Do I need any tickets?

No. Every stop is outdoors or free to enter. The catacombs in St. Peter’s Cemetery have their own hours and a small admission fee, and they are optional.

Is the route step-free?

Almost. The walk is close to level, with about 400 meters of cobblestones, loose gravel on one square, and two steps at a cemetery gate. The abbey courtyard should let you avoid the steps, but we have not yet checked that on site.

When is a good time to go?

Any time the cemetery is open: it closes at 6 p.m. from October to March and at 8 p.m. from April to September. During the summer festival and the Christmas market, the Domplatz is partly blocked.

What can I do after the walk?

The walk ends on the Mozartsteg footbridge. Across the River starts at the other end of the same bridge.

What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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