Salzburg
Salzburg is storybook Austria.
Salzburg is storybook Austria.
Too few people visit Hallein in their dash north to Bavaria or south to Salzburg, but those who do are pleasantly surprised.
The world’s largest accessible ice caves, the soaring limestone turrets of the Tennengebirge range and a formidable medieval fortress are but the tip of the superlative iceberg in Werfen.
Theatrically set amid the jagged limestone spires of the Dachstein massif, rolling pastures and the aptly named Bischofsmütze (Bishop’s Mitre) peaks – Filzmoos is quite the alpine idyll.
A prince-archbishop with a wicked sense of humour, Markus Sittikus built Schloss Hellbrunn in the early 17th century as a summer palace and an escape from his functions at the Residenz.
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