As surely as we know what the hills are alive with we know too what the streets of Austria’s third-largest city are alive with —  tourists. Perhaps too beautiful for its own good, the town attracts armies of them. Nonetheless, Salzburg must be seen. The old town center is a glorious collection of palaces, churches, courtyards, and statuary, most of which were conceived and commissioned by a lecherous, ego-driven cleric, the Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, who fathered 15 children out of wedlock – all with the same woman.

Salzburg is also the birthplace of Mozart and he is still a major presence.

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Suggested Activities:
• Visit Wolf Dietrich’s ostentatious tomb in the St. Sebastian cemetery (Mozart’s wife and father are also buried in this cemetery)

Places to Stay: 
• Altstadt Radisson SAS, Judengasse 15, A-5020, tel. +43/0662/848 5710, fax 848 57 16, email: radisson-altstadt@austria-trend.at, web: www.rtk.at/601/default.htm
• Hotel Jedermann, Rupertgasse 25, A-5020, tel. +43/0662/873 2410, fax 873 2419, email: office@hotel-jedermann.com, web: www.jedermann.com
• Schloss Haunsperg, Hammerstrasse 32, Oberalm Bei Hallein (outside of Salzburg), A-5411, tel. +43/06245/80 662, fax 85 680, email: info@schlosshaunsperg.com, web: www.schlosshaunsperg.com

Places to Dine:
• Lunch at Peterskeller (St.-Peter-Bezirk 1-4, tel. 0662/841-2680), Austria’s oldest restaurant
• Dinner at Gasthof Auerhahn, Bahnhofstrasse 15, tel. +43/0662/451052, fax 451052-3.