Salzburg is one of the most popular Austrian cities for tourists. Rightly so? Decide by yourself.
Some pictures from today, five days before the annual festival starts.

Looking up the Mönchsberg:
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A general overview of the city from the Mönchsberg:
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The Salzburg Museum of Modern Art:
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The baroque cathedral:
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Residenzplatz:
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The Salzach River:
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Mozart Square:
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The gardens of the Mirabell Castle:
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The Festival hall to the left:
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And two last pics of the Euro 2008 stadium, which is just being upgraded:
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Please comment! (Nicely. ;))

Beautiful.

I've too Salzburg last year. But only for a few hours, it was bloody hot. The hottest day in Austria they said on the radio, maybe you still remember. Salzburg is a nice city but I was suprised how small it actuall is.

^^ I remember those days. Fortunately I was in Alaska these two weeks so it didn't affect me. ;) But the media kept reporting about it and friends told me about it.

WOW some realy stunning buildings. I like the musem of Modern art. Is it realy a small place?

Can't . . . resist . . .

http://data.panoramatours.com/media/113.jpg

http://www.allegroholidays.com/Ind_Music/sound_of_music.jpg

Compare with above pic from the mid-60's

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6860/03dt3.jpg

Beautiful pics of one of the most beautiful cities in Europe :applause:

And comparing with the 60s pic - I think it's thanks to the UNESCO enlistment, looks very similar to the renovation of the Pelourinho in Bahia.

I also took some pics in Salzburg, they are not that good in quality, but anyway - the city deserves as much pics as possible :)
http://www.socio.ch/maro/images/DSC03864.jpg
http://www.socio.ch/maro/images/DSC03872.jpg
http://www.socio.ch/maro/images/DSC03905.jpg
http://www.socio.ch/maro/images/DSC03907.jpg
http://www.socio.ch/maro/images/DSC03920.jpg
http://www.socio.ch/maro/images/DSC03930.jpg
http://www.socio.ch/maro/images/DSC03955.jpg

Is it realy a small place?

Basically, what you see in pics 3 & 4 is the whole historic center. The city itself stretches out towards the other direction, but after all, it is only Austria's 4th city after Vienna, Graz and Linz, with only 143,000 inhabitants.

It's also the 4th largest agglomeration in Austria with 214,700 inhabitants (some suburbs are on German ground). So it's a compareable urban area to other alpine/prealpine cities as Luzern, Bregenz, Ljubljana, Como or Innsburck and thus among the biggest cities in the Alps (Grenoble is about double size).

It's also the 4th largest agglomeration in Austria with 214,700 inhabitants (some suburbs are on German ground). So it's a compareable urban area to other alpine/prealpine cities as Luzern, Bregenz, Ljubljana, Como or Innsburck and thus among the biggest cities in the Alps (Grenoble is about double size).
I had no idea some of it was German soil. :weird:

The Bavarian town of Freilassing for instance is usually included among Salzburg's suburbs as it is very well connected by bus and rail and quite important for the local economy.

Wow very beatiful townhttp://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/smilies/applause.gif

I have spent some time in Salzburg...and believe me it is more beautiful in real life...what a wonderful city....

immaculate

Unbelievably beautiful place with clear and amazing shots !

great looking city, it looks very clean. I like 1 & 2 the best with the rock behind the buildings, and 28 is a cool one too.

Wonderful place!

It appears some of the pics aren't showing up, I don't know if it's just me. On some of your other pics threads too.

In few words, Salzburg is looking really very nice, great :applause:

nice, but i don´t see the glamour :lol::lol:

Beautiful!

beautiful city which reminds me of the movie "sound of music"

Looks like a lovely city. It is certainly a place I want to get to one day. I've been to Austria, but not much of it yet unfortunately, so I have to have this town on my list.

The only part that seems to let the town down is the river frontage. It looks as though no effort has been done here. Weeds and little else. Water frontage is the most beautiful natural asset a city can have, and it's a shame when some cities make no effort here.

Nice pictures!