Salzburg – The Sound of Music City

Salzburg, capital of the Austrian
province of the same name, has about 150,000 inhabitants. One out of three jobs is dependent directly or indirectly on tourism, but Salzburg is also a centre for trading and new technologies. The university was founded by Paris Graf Lodron in 1623 and is attended by 12,000 students today.

The Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg

Part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage since 1996.
"Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it was a city-state ruled by a Prince Archbishop. Its flamboyant Gothic art attracted many craftsmen and artists before the city became even better known through the work of the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the centre of Salzburg owes much of its Baroque appearance. This meeting point of northern and southern Europe perhaps sparked the genius of Salzburg's most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name has been associated with the city ever since."