Our Travel Notes to Salzburg at Christmas Time and Places to Visit in Salzburg

Salzburg is a beautiful city built at the foot of the Alps and smells of Mozart.. Not a city but a town. It’s not even a town because it’s too big for a town. Anyway, this is a beautiful place.. It is a pleasant place to visit with its greenery and baroque-smelling architecture, which makes us happy with its Mozarts bursting from everywhere.

We decided that we should see Salzburg for Christmas time in 2015, and Salzburg for 2 days and Vienna for 4 days. We planned a trip to Austria to be. Although we were frozen from the cold and from time to time we complained, ‘Why did the water come out in July, it’s as if it’s December cold’, but we were extremely pleased that we came here at Christmas time! Salzburg is normally beautiful, but at Christmas time it is illuminated and the famous ‘Christmas Markets’ are set up, even more so.. If you happen to be in Munich or Vienna, you can come without any hesitation.

How to get to Salzburg

We went to Strasbourg by bus because we live in Frankfurt.. You can come with a direct flight of Turkish Airlines or you can go by train from Vienna.. If you flew to Munich, your distance to Salzburg is much shorter.. You can also go by bus or train from Munich.. While we were going from Salzburg to Vienna, we paid 24 Euros one way for the train and the road takes about 2 hours.. If you want to go to another city from Salzburg, you can see the list of all kinds of public transportation alternatives by using the ‘GoEuro’ application.

If you are going to leave the city by train and you have not bought your ticket yet, you can find ‘mitfahren’ next to the ticket offices.. Let’s explain right away what is this ‘mitfahren’; If you are going by train from one city to another and you are a group of at least 5 people, you buy a bulk ticket and it is much cheaper per person.. But there is a handicap, a single ticket is issued, naturally 5 people should not be separated from each other because there is only one ticket in the middle.. If they can’t see 5 people together at the control, the penalty is very high.. That’s why in Europe, students often find travel companions next to train ticket machines

Accommodation in Salzburg

The train station in the city and the old town where the events take place is a 15-minute walk away.. If you wish, you can also reach the center by buses departing from the train station and a 1-day unlimited ticket is around 2.5 Euros.. Since we like to walk in every city until the black waters descend on our feet, we stayed at the ‘Amedia Express Hotel’ close to the train station and never used public transportation.. Hotels in Salzburg are a bit expensive compared to the rest of Austria. The hotel we stayed in was convenient compared to others, we paid 65 Euros per room per night.. If you want to stay in the old city, that is, around Altstadt, hotel prices will double in an instant.

Places to Visit in Salzburg

Salzburg is indeed a tiny city. We can’t say it’s a one-day city, but you can visit every part of it in 2-3 days.. Consider that the population of Vienna is around 8 million, and that of Salzburg is 150,000.. You can understand how small it is from this part! Events generally revolve around the old town.. The narrow and open streets in the old town are beautiful at Christmas time.

The Salzach river runs through the middle of the city.. The old town was built around the Salzach river.. On one side of the river is the old town, on the other there is Makartplatz Square, Mirabell Gardens and Mozart‘s house. The house where Mozart was born is on the famous Getreidegasse. If you come in summer time, it will be very enjoyable to rent a bike and go on the bike paths by the river.. There are beautiful bike paths all over the city.

Like every European city, of course, Salzburg has a castle built on top of the city.. His story is also weird! We’ll come to that part soon

Getreidegasse Street

This is the most popular street in Salzburg. In fact, it is such a popular street that if you come in summer or Christmas time, you take turns walking.. The showcases on the street are so beautiful that it doesn’t matter if it’s a souvenir shop or a shop selling kitchen appliances, you can even spend your time just by watching the showcases.. All the streets are always lively with the beautifully illuminated signs of all the shops. The streets are labyrinthine labyrinth and most streets lead to passages. You draw a circle without noticing once in a while..

We praised the street a lot, let’s complain a little! We said Salzburg, Mozart’s city. The men have so much commercialized this Mozart thing that it ran out of water, excuse me.. Mozart chocolate, Mozart binoculars, Mozart underwear… Mozart is everywhere. In fact, there is a Mozart statue in the middle of the city that the left-handed man had a pen attached to his right hand, and the sculptor must have been stunned by this much love of Mozart.. Especially when you think that Mozart died in misery at the age of 35 and was buried in the grave of the orphans, it is astonishing.. (We complained, relieved, we return to our topic.)

The building where Mozart was born is on this street. It will be easy to spot as it is the only yellow building on the street.. Mozart was born here but later moved to another place with his family.. After visiting the apartment where Mozart was born, you visit the rest of the building where things related to Mozart are exhibited.. Entry is 10 Euros.

Domplatz

The famous Salzburg Cathedral, where Mozart’s baptism took place, is in this square. They stand front to back with the Virgin Mary Statue in the square. When you move a little further, you will see Kapitelplatz square.. You will probably recognize Kapitelplatz right away, because in the center of the square is a huge golden globe and a statue of a standing man in the center of the globe.. Take a good look at this statue, because it’s probably the most modern one you can come across in Salzburg.. If you go a little further from here, St.. Peter’s Convent. The history of the monastery dates back to 969 and it is the oldest monastery in Europe.. It’s built in Roman architecture and it’s really beautiful. If you’ve come this far, you can also see Petersfriedhof, Salzburg’s oldest cemetery, right at the entrance.. We bypassed Petersfriedhof, where the cemeteries made us feel a little disheartened.. If you want to visit, the graves of Mozart’s family are also in this cemetery.. (The whereabouts of Mozart’s own grave is unknown, unfortunately, the man died in misery.)

Rezidenzplatz

Continue walking from both Domplatz and Kapitalplatz Rezidenzplatz will appear. This is one of the important squares of the city and when we went, a huge ice rink was built on it for Christmas and the children were ice skating.. If you come at Christmas time, you can try ice skating both to get a little colder in the cold weather and for the German style (don’t say what the German style is doing in Austria, we made it up) for a child-rearing a101 lesson! Even with us, when the child writes a little vertically, the parents throw themselves in front of the child like an airbag, while the Germans take it easy.. How many times the babies’ legs were cut in half, they were stuck to the ground, their mothers did not even help them to get up, I swear (how does a mother’s heart endure)

Mozartplatz

Here is a square for you more! As you can imagine, this place is right at the bottom of Rezidenzplatz and there is a huge Mozart (who would be) statue in the middle.. Although Mozart is left-handed, they gave the pen to his right hand in the sculpture, but oh well 😀 The Salzburg Museum is also here. The entrance fee should be around 8 Euros, since we got the Salzburg Card, we entered for free.. (Once you pay for that card, you dive into all the museums.) There are stories, paintings and exhibition areas about Salzburg inside.. You see, my uncle is loaded and pouring his ‘Harp’. If you have some coins in your pocket, you won’t regret giving it to these uncles

Mönchsberg Hill

This is one of the two spots on the hills of Salzburg. Mönchsberg Museum of Modern Art is also here. Don’t be afraid because we said it on the hill, you can take the elevator on Getreidegasse Street in about 1 minute.. The return ticket for the elevator is around 3.5 Euros.. The entrance to the modern art museum is 8 Euros.

By the way, let’s not forget to mention the ‘Salzburg Card’. Since museum entrances in Salzburg are a bit salty compared to other European cities, they decided to make it a little easier for tourists and they issued these Salzburg Cards.. If you plan to visit a lot of museums, you can get a 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour Salzburg Card and you can enter most museums in the city for free.. You can also use these cards in public transport.. Since we went to Salzburg in its most touristic period, the prices were a bit expensive because the price changes according to the period.. So let’s not mislead you by giving prices here.

Festungsberg Hill

Speaking of Salzburg, there is no hill without a hill, and speaking of hill, there is no castle without a castle.. Here in Hohensalzburg is Salzburg’s Castle. Don’t worry, the Austrians have thought of us all, you can walk out of the city center in 15 minutes, but you can reach the castle from the Kapitalplatz Square’ by taking the funicular! If you do not have a Salzburg Card, the round trip and entrance fees with the funicular cost 12 Euros.. If you have a Salzburg Card, you won’t be on the floor anyway…

The inside of the castle is both big and beautiful, and there is a museum inside where the materials used in the construction of the castle are displayed.. Inside, there is also a video showing the change from the first day of the castle to the last day.

And of course, we came to the part of taking pictures with a view.. The city looks very beautiful from the castle and you can take extremely cool selfies by taking the city view to the back.

The castle has a very funny story.. While the Janissaries besieged Vienna, a few good friends went to see the latest situation in other cities of Austria.. These friends came all the way to Salzburg and the people of Salzburg who saw them said, “Wow! ‘ and because the Ottomans were coming to take Salzburg, they had a panic attack and fled the castle :))

We don’t know how true the story is, of course, but it’s not funny if it’s a joke!

Mirabell Gardens

We came to the other side of the city. We said that Salzach divides the city in two, one side is the old city and the other side is Mirabell’s and Mozart’s house.

As a park-garden loving couple, our first stop on this side is Mirabell Gardens > happened. A small part of the palace can be visited and they are usually included in concerts, but the garden is open to the public and free of charge.. For Mirabell Gardens, it is definitely worth seeing, even if we can’t say “waaaov” it was the best garden we’ve seen.

A small detail, the Emperor had this palace built to impress his ‘mistress’.. Oh, you sleep more……

Mozart’s House

This is the house where Mozart’s family later moved. Since Mozart later moved from Salzburg and lived a semi-nomadic life, he did not stay in this house long.. Nowadays, the inside has been turned into a museum and you can see the instruments and scientific instruments used by Mozart and his father (yes, his father was a musician too!) here.. Entry 10 Euros. As always, if you have the Salzburg Card, you lived.

Yes, the house is really beautiful and it’s interesting to see the instruments Mozart played in his time, but it’s a bit boring to see Mozart being used everywhere all the time, sorry.. On the first day in the city, you try those famous Mozart chocolates, look at the Mozart Statue, look at the shop windows decorated with Mozart, and suddenly you are surrounded by Mozart.. Magnets, toys, books all Mozart! You’ll see that it gets boring after a while… Anyway, you think about this part when you get bored.

Food & Drink Moroccan

Salzburg is a very German place to eat.. Of course, Austria’s inevitable ‘schnitzel’ is everywhere (!), but details such as the waiters and the design of the restaurants are very ‘German’.. Of course, German style doesn’t mean it’s bad, but it’s definitely not new for us (we are half-Germans as you know)

A food and beverage market is set up in the city center every day.. A variety of cheeses, snacks and fruits and vegetables are available here.. Even if you are not going to buy it, you can go just to see ‘How to set up the most pleasant market’.

There is a cafe called ‘Tomaselli’ in the middle of the famous squares we mentioned.. It was founded in 1705 and is one of Salzburg’s oldest venues.. Ideal to grab a coffee and a cake and cut the tourists down from the terrace!

Salzburg is just around the corner from selling salt in its time. That’s why shops that sell only ‘salt’ all over the city can compete with Mozart chocolatiers.. There are all kinds of salt in these shops.. There are many types of salt, such as rock salt-table salt-cholesterol-free salt-sea salt-salt from africa. You can go and have a look here before returning home.. Of course, it is free to say “Well, we bought the salt from Salzburg” to those who say the food was good! They also say that these salts are good for the skin.

The Mozart Café on Getreidegasse Street is a Salzburg Classic. If it’s your first day in the city and you still can’t get enough of Mozart figures, this place is ideal for a coffee break.

Alter Fuchs, very close to Mirabell Gardens, is a perfect schnitzel place.. Here we ate the best schnitzel we had in Austria. (We’re not Vedat Milör of course, but it tastes really good!)

Hans W is a hot dog maker. But full hot dog. In this place, you can try the sausages made with different sauces and different meats, and you can fill your stomach for cheap.. We loved this hot dog restaurant, which is one of the rare shabby places in Salzburg.

Burgerista before we went, we had heard that it was the best hamburger restaurant in Salzburg.. Will our body, which will go towards obesity if it eats a little more, stop?. Of course, we had our lunch here on the second day and we had a good meal.. Our score for Burgerista is quite high.

Augustiner Braustulb, Salzburg’s biggest brewer. We didn’t want to call the huge place just ‘Beer Brewer’, but there were about 100 people inside and everyone was just drinking beer.. This is the brewery you know.. They even make their own beers. It has a big garden with tables under the trees for summer time, we sat inside as we went in the deadly cold. This is also the only place in Salzburg where we see Salzburgers hanging out. There were people who took their family meal with them and only ordered beer here. If you ask us, we would definitely recommend this place.

A little reminder, Salzburg has zero(!). But really zero. Most places close at 7pm and even this brewery closes at 11pm. Don’t dream of going and staying up late or you may be disappointed like us.

The only late bar street in Salzburg ‘Bergstrasse’. If we said the street of bars, of course, there are not dozens of bars and when it says 1 at night, all of them can’t be closed, but whatever.. But when it’s Christmas Market, you don’t look for much.

If you’re going to buy Mozart chocolate, the brand must be ‘Mirabell’. They’re the real ones, there’s a lot of foreign brand chocolate around, too Mozart illustrated. If you are going to buy a gift, you can also buy the ones in the package.. When they put the same chocolate in the box, they get separate money for the box.. Most people love these chocolates. But we weren’t fans of these Mozart chocolates, either because we overdosed on Mozart or we often overdose on sweets in Germany anyway.. But of course, it wouldn’t hurt anyone to buy some and bring a gift

Vee Christmas Market

We came to the main reason for visiting Salzburg At Christmas time, Christmas markets called Christmas Markets are established in most cities of Europe and cities suddenly become beautiful.. Even our ugly Frankfurt is becoming a sight to behold.. Since Salzburg is a small and fairy-tale city by itself, the whole city easily takes on that Christmas mood, and with this aspect, it “steps in” to other European cities at Christmas time, sorry.. The smell of mulled wine rising from all over the city, decorated pine trees, different kinds of Christmas tents and all kinds of sweet and salty foods sold in those tents! Welcome to Christmas in Salzburg!

Christmas Market is located right next to MozartPlatz and if you are going to visit the Christmas market, we recommend that you go hungry. Because when you see the scaly foods sold, there is a high probability of rolling your eyes.. We thought it was the best thing we did in Salzburg, drinking mulled wine and eating whatever we found, while Santas and horse carriages roamed the streets.. We are also thinking of writing about Christmas Markets (they are so beautiful).

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