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Home Page > Travelogues > Austria > Salzburg Chapters in this travelogue:
Ok, I must give you a quick warning. If the very thoughts
of the "Sound of Music" or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart causes you convulsions (especially because of the
movie "Amadeus" or the bizarre hit song by Falco), you might consider
(a) not considering a trip to visit Salzburg and
As for "Sound of Music," this is the city where much of the movie was shot on location. If you've been to the city, you would recognize some of the shots used. If not, no problem, Salzburg offers plenty of "Sound of Music" tours where visitors can be taken all around to see where the children sang Do-Re-Mi, where the Nazis marched during the Anschluss, and the gazebo where the teenaged lovers sang before fate tore them apart. Of course, Salzburg is one heck of a lot more than just
Mozart. It is a beautiful old city in its own right, especially in
wintertime. The
This travelogue has been expanded in 2006 to a three-chapter travelogue, and will likely be expanded in future should we get a chance to return there (hopefully within the next couple years). The map at the right side of this page shows the general layout of the city and the regions covered in the chapters. Click in the colored zones, titles, or photos to access a subchapter. Chapters in this travelogue:
Trip Taken 5 January 2002 -- Page Last Updated 01 September 2006 -- (C) 2002 Tom Galvin |
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(b) not reading further in this
travelogue. Why? Because Salzburg is not only the bir
thplace of the
great composer himself, it is the commercial center of the Mozart name, where it
seems sometimes that one can hold a degree of fame by claiming to be the third
cousin of the illegitimate
child of the great-granduncle of a man who once spotted Mozart walking down the
street. Northwest Austria cornered the market on hero worship long before Beatlemania.
beautiful, clean, and well-kept buildings in the
