Osterfestspiele Salzburg (Salzburg Easter Festival), one of the most prestigious of its kind in Europe, has invited the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen to be its Orchestra in Residence in spring 2025. The honour has previously been held by such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden, and the invitation can
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Salzburg is like a film set. Reclining at the foot of wooded cliffs on the banks of a turquoise river, its baroque-gone-mad Altstadt wings you through a millennium of history, with its jewel box of churches, abbeys and domes. Everywhere you go, you are forced to look up in wonder: at the whopping hilltop fortress,
Hotel Goldener Hirsch, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Salzburg today announced the culmination of a full-scale renovation. The completion ushers in a new era of luxury for Salzburg’s most storied hotel, which has stood on the city’s historic Getreidegasse since 1407. An extensive restoration of all seventy guestrooms and suites was unveiled, along with the hotel’s
Jazz in the City, Salzburg: 16 -20 Oct 2019 5 days. 30 stages. 70 concerts. Free admission. When the stars of the jazz scene gather in Salzburg, “Jazz & The City” is not far away. The more than 30 stages are distributed throughout the Old Town and present a musical diversity that is hardly known
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It’s all songs and schnitzels in a stunning Alpine setting Salzburg in Austria is so pretty, it might have you singing on the mountain tops! While it might be best known to some as the mountainous setting of The Sound of Music, there’s more to this castle-topped city than a famous film credit. Dance through
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The hills are alive… with the Sound of Music! This classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, is still the biggest driver of tourists to Salzburg. If you have always dreamed of reliving the musical, these should be in the list of your favourite things (or places) to visit when you are in Austria! 1. Festung Hohensalzburg
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How to Get to Hallstatt from Salzburg Travelling to Hallstatt by train is one of the most scenic ways to reach this famous lakeside village in Austria. Surrounded by the mountains of the Dachstein Salzkammergut region and sitting beside the beautiful Hallstätter See, Hallstatt is a destination that seems almost made for a train journey.
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