Welcome to an online visit to Salzburg, Austria!

Dreaming spires, green hills and romantic gardens – the city's attractions are loved by millions of visitors from all over the World starving for Salzburg sightseeing. With a tourist-per-capita ratio higher than Venice or Florence, the city is among the busiest places of Europe all year round.

Respectively, a wealth of information about the city of Mozart is available from guidebooks, websites and travel agencies. Sometimes it can be difficult to find your way round during a Salzburg visit. How can you find the “real” place? Where can you obtain accurate information from independent sources?

This is where www.visit-salzburg.net pops up in all its glory: a website run by locals from Salzburg, who collected independent “inside” information in English for international visitors. Independent means that we neither work for the tourism council, nor for any particular company. We share information on Salzburg with our users, because we like our city – and because we want you to enjoy it as much as we do! Experience Salzburg at your visit through the eyes of a local.

This website is a project run by locals from Salzburg in their spare time. We compete with the established, commercial tourism websites and major hotel chains that sell the "classic-kitschty" Salzburg image rather than the "naked truth" that you will find here - or where else would you learn the 10 things not to do in Salzburg?

Summer Special: Between Hiking and Open-air Concerts

Now with the festival season and warm summer nights coming up, gear yourself up for day-trips to Salzburg's surroundings, hiking, swimming and rural delights. The following articles provide some inspiration for summerly activities:

Hiking: Mount Untersberg - Mount Gaisberg - Glasenbach Klamm - Hellbrunner Allee - National Park Hohe Tauern - Mount Großglockner - Krimml Waterfalls

Urban leisures: Salzburg Festival - Sitting by the River - Hellbrunn Trick Fountains - Beer Garden - Golf - Salzburg Hotel
 

Salzburg Photos, Food of Austria, Hotel Advice

This website contains an image gallery with photos of some of the most inspiring views on the city and its surroundings. The photos can serve you as an appetiser if you are planning a trip or bring back memories if you have been there before. An extensive sightseeing guide gives information on what to see in Salzburg, as well as highlights like the "Sound of Music" locations and trivia on the movie.

Special topics cover hardly noticed facts, such as Jewish History, the Lanz confusion, the history of the local university or background information on the Salzburg Festival. Even people who got here out of orthographic difficulties will be happy to find plenty of information on Salzberg.

Another highlight of visit-salzburg.net is our link directory, to our knowledge the most extensive tourism-based link directory on Salzburg. Here you find links that will help you to plan trips well in advance and that tell you where to find what once you are there. A highlight is our "see and pee" guide that shows you all major attractions plus the public toilets on a Salzburg map, printable on a single page.

Other sections include lots of information about the sights of Salzburg, but even more so background knowledge that you won’t find in your guidebook! Sections on modern architecture, day-trip destinations in the surroundings off the beaten track or for themes and – most important – a collection of traditional Austrian recipes make this website a valuable source for the ultimate Austria experience!

Travel Information & Sightseeing in Austria

This website covers mostly Salzburg and its surroundings. For travel information and sightseeing advice on the rest of Austria (especially for Vienna Sightseeing) we recommend www.TourMyCountry.com, our new sister project by a local from Austria.
 

Featured Articles

Salzburg Webcam - Sound of Music - Hohensalzburg Fortress - Dom Cathedral - Schloss Anif Castle - general travel information - Salzberg confusion - history outline - Werfen Ice Caves- Salt mine day trip - Austrian desserts - information on what tourists just have to do - fun facts on the city - the Salzburg Seminar - Mozart and the Festival - and more and more...