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The City of Salzburg
Salzburg, located in the heart of Europe, is the capital of the federal state of the same name and the fourth largest city in Austria. The northwestern part of the city borders on the Free State of Bavaria in the Federal Republic of Germany
Salzburg Congress Card
Salzburg is one of the most beautiful and popular cities in Europe. With the Salzburg Congress Card at an exclusive special price, we offer our event participants the opportunity to visit the most important sights free of charge.
Salzburg Congress is literally only a stone's throw away from Salzburg's most important sights: whether Mozart's birthplace in the Getreidegasse, the DomQuartier Salzburg, the Hohensalzburg Fortress or the Museum of Modern Art on the Mönchsberg. With the Salzburg Congress Card, these sights can be visited free of charge. In addition, event participants enjoy numerous other discounts and benefits.
You can book the Salzurg Congress Card directly at your congress registration or purchase it on site at the Congress Service counter.
Price: 32€
The advantages of the Salzburg Congress Card at a glance:
- One-time free admission to all sights and museums in the city of Salzburg
- free travel on public transport including the Fortress Railway and the Untersberg Railway
- attractive discounts when visiting cultural events such as theater, concerts, etc.
- additional discounts at many excursion destinations
Sightseeing
Salzburg are always worth a visit.
Not only in the charming old town there are great sights, art and culture to discover at the highest level.
With various day trips around Salzburg you have the opportunity to get to know our fantastic nature in the mountain and lake worlds, historical buildings and cultural assets.
We offer interesting and exciting tours and city tours for our congress participants:
- Monday and Friday: Sound of Music Tour
- Tuesday full day: Hallstatt - Salzbergwerk - Bad Ischl
- Wednesday morning: City Tour "Shopping"
- Wednesday afternoon: City Tour "Classic"
- Thursday afternoon: Salzkammergut
- Friday morning: City Tour "Hidden Treasures"
Details about the individual tours can be found here:
Guided Salzburg-Walk to the festive evening
Enjoy the incomparable charm of Salzburg's Old Town on a guided Salzburg walk from Salzburg Congress to the Festive Evening at the Stieglkeller.
During this guided walk you will pass by various famous places and attractions.
Time table:
Oct. 12th, 2023
18:00 Meeting point Salzburg Congress
Duration: approx. 1 hours
Group size: min. 20 (if the minimum number is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the tour)
Price: €10
Included services: Tour with a certified guide
Sightseeing Tour A
City Tour Classic
To fall in love with Salzburg, you do not need a second view: the city exudes an incomparab-le charm, a mixture of architectural styles, clarity and splendid testimonies of a rich past. During the guided walk through the Old Town you will pass by Salzburg Cathedral, the Old Residence, Hohensalzburg Fortress, Mozart's birthplace in Getreidegasse, the Festspiel Houses, the oldest pharmacy, the oldest coffeehouse and more. And all that in just two hours.
Time table:
11.10.2023
14:00 Meeting point Salzburg Congress - Start of the City Tour
16:00 End of the City Tour
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Group size: min. 10 max. 30 persons (if the minimum number is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the tour)
Price: €25
Included services: City Tour with a certified guide, admission to the Salzburg Cathedral
Sightseeing Tour B
Salzburg and its hidden treasures
There is the Salzburg that everyone knows and loves: the Getreidegasse, the squares of the old town, the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Mirabell Gardens.
But there is also the unknown Salzburg with its hidden nooks and crannies, with narrow and dark streets that hide an equally dark secret.
This city tour is a journey of discovery through the Salzburg that hardly anyone knows.
The focus is on what is hidden, barely visible and easily overlooked: aesthetic and amusing details, history and little stories enrich this walk, which makes Salzburg even more in-teresting, beautiful and loveable.
Time table:
10/13/2023
09:30 am: Meeting point Salzburg Congress - Start of the City Tour
12:30 pm: End of the City Tour
Duration: approx. 3 hours
Group size: min. 10 max. 30 persons (if the minimum number is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the tour)
Price: €24
Included services: City Tour with a certified guide
Sightseeing Tour C
Shoppingtour on historical paths
Behind the façades of Salzburg's town houses are numerous charming and traditional shops, manufacturers, coffee houses and old-established family businesses.
This tour takes you through the bourgeois and handicraft town of Salzburg with its narrow streets, passageways and tranquil corners. History and the lively present, individual designs and traditional master craftsmanship go hand in hand here.
Doors open that offer undreamt-of insights and otherwise remain closed to the hustle and bustle of tourists. A "delightful tour" through history and stories to fall in love with, to linger and to come back.
Time table:
11.10.2023
09:30 am: Meeting point Salzburg Congress - Start of the Special tour in the old town of Salzburg including tasting of the well-known Sporer punch
Duration: approx. 3 hours
Group size: min. 10 max. 30 persons (if the minimum number is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the tour)
Price: €31
Included services: City Tour with a certified guide. Tasting of the in-house Sporer blend.
Sightseeing Tour D
Hallstatt - Salt mine Hallstatt - Bad Ischl
Located directly on the shore of Lake Hallstatt, Hallstatt not only impresses visitors with its fairytale-like, idyllic atmosphere, but also with a rich history that goes back to prehistoric times. Numerous archaeological finds show that people lived in Hallstatt more than 7000 years ago in the Neolithic Age and that the area has been continuously inhabited ever since. Already 2000 BC. there was organized salt mining in Hallstatt. Salt production was expanded in the following centuries and in 800 BC. enjoyed its first economic heyday. The Hallstatt burial ground in the high valley bears witness to the wealth of this era. A few decades after its dis-covery, the Iron Age (time between 800 BC and 400 BC) was renamed the Hallstatt period. In 1997 the Dachstein – Salzkammergut region around Hallstatt was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The panorama train (funicular) takes you to the Hallstatt high valley. After the guided tour through the oldest salt mine in the world, you can take the footpath back to the mountain station. The tour concludes with a visit to the spectacular Hallstatt Skywalk "Welterbeblick" vie-wing platform, from where you can enjoy a magnificent view of Lake Hallstatt and the surrounding mountain panorama.
A visit to Bad Ischl, the heart of the Salzkammergut, should not be missed on this tour.
Delightfuld cuisine is not far, where the emperor once spent his summer vacation. Stroll through the imperial town and then enjoy a café melange and a fresh pastry at the traditio-nal café Zauner - that's culture!
Time table:
10/10/2023
- 09:00 am: Meeting point Salzburg Congress and departure to Hallstatt
- 10:15 am: Arrival in Hallstatt and guided tour to salt mine
- 12:45 pm: lk to Hallstatt and lunch at a traditional Austrian restaurant
- 02:30 pm: Departure to Bad Ischl
- 03:00 pm: Arrival in Bad Ischl and guided city tour to Confectionery Zauner
- 04:30 pm: Departure to Salzburg Congress
- 05:30 pm: Arrival at Salzburg Congress
Duration: approx. 8,5 hours
Group size: min. 20 / max. 50 persons (if the minimum number is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the tour)
Price: €140
Included services:
- Bus transfer and tour guide
- Admission to the salt mine including the salt mine railway
- Lunch (2-course menu and drink)
For more information, visit www.hallstatt.net.
Photo sources:
Hallstatt: ©www.hallstatt.net
Hallstatt Salt Worlds: © Salzwelten
Bad Ischl: ©www.badischl.at
Sightseeing Tour E
The Salzkammergut: An afternoon in the Salzkammergut Summer retreat at the famous Lake Wolfgangsee
High nobility, artists and writers have made the Salzkammergut famous. Today, as then, it enchants with a beautiful natural landscape, places steeped in history and with its crystal-clear lakes. This half-day tour takes you across Lake Fuschl to Lake Wolfgang: St. Wolfgang was one of the most important places of pilgrimage in Europe as early as the Middle Ages.
A touch of summer freshness!
Fuschlsee. From the town of Salzburg there is a direct route to the nearby Fuschlsee, where the former hunting lodge of the Salzburg prince-archbishops was the location for the famous "Sissi" films. Today it houses a luxury hotel. The head quarters of Red Bull is also in Fuschl.
Lake Wolfgang. In baroque St. Gilgen, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's mother Anna Ma-ria was born, there is a change from the bus to the ship. On board a ship of the Wolfgangsee fleet - the largest inland lake fleet in Austria - you can enjoy wonderful views of the Zwölfer-horn, the Falkensteinwand and the legendary Schafberg with the cog railway.
The shipping destination is St. Wolfgang, which is already on Upper Austrian soil: since the 14th century, the place has been the fourth most important place of pilgrimage in Europe. A spe-cial art-historical highlight is the famous Gothic winged altar by Michael Pacher. After a guided tour of the church, you can make a detour to the much sung about Hotel “Weißes Rössl” or stroll through the village with its many traditional craft shops.
Back to Salzburg you pass Hüttenstein Castle on the deep black Krottensee and go along the legendary Mondsee.
Time table:
12.10.2023
01:30 pm Meeting point Salzburg Congress and departure to Salzkammergut
02:30 pm Boat trip from St. Gilgen to St. Wolfgang (duration: 35 min) with a welcome drink
03.15 pm City tour St. Wolfgang
04.30 pm Departure to Salzburg (from the bus parking lot St. Wolfgang)
05.30 pm Arrival at Salzburg Congress
Duration: approx. 4 hours
Group size: min. 20 max. 50 persons (if the minimum number is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the tour)
Price: € 65,-
Included services: Bus transfer, Tour guide, Entrance to the Church of St. Wolfgang, Boat trip with soft drink
Photo sources:
Basilika: Pixabay Th G
St. Wolfgang: Pixabay Karl Egger
Schiffahrt: ©Salzburg AG Tourismus GmbH
Sightseeing Tour F / G
Sound of Music
More than a billion people have seen the world's most successful musical adaptation "The Sound of Music" since its first broadcast in 1965. The film, starring Julie Andrews and Chris-topher Plummer, won five Oscars. Around 300,000 fans come to Salzburg every year to visit the original film locations. The original "Sound of Music" tour leads from the town of Salzburg to the famous Salzkammergut.
Reality and myth. They really lived in Salzburg: Maria, the novice, who later became Baroness von Trapp, and her children. Their path led them from Salzburg to America while fleeing the Nazis. During their lifetime, they won people's hearts with their songs, but the film starring Julie Andrews made them legends. Today the legacy of the von Trapp family and the film "The Sound of Music" are more alive in Salzburg than ever before. During this four-hour tour, the original locations in the town of Salzburg and in the Salzkammergut are visited.
The bus tour takes you to the original locations of "The Sound of Music". On-site the sights are visited on foot.
Time table:
F: 09.10.2023 / G: 13.10.2023
02:00 pm Departure from Mirabellplatz
- Mirabell Garden
- Schloß Leopoldskron
- Hellbrunn Garden, Gazebo
- Nonnberg Convent
- Salzburg Lake District — St. Gilgen
- Mondsee – Wedding Church
06:00 pm Arrival at Mirabellplatz
Duration: approx. 4 hours
Group size: min. 30 max. 50 persons (if the minimum number is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the tour)
Price: € 60.-
Included services: Bus transfer, Tour guide
The Mirabellgarten
The Mirabell Gardens were completely redesigned under archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun in 1690. The underlying geometrical form, which is typical for the Baroque period, is still clearly recognizable. The visual orientation towards the cathedral and fortress adds to the grandeur of the gardens – simultaneously incorporating them into the overall historical ensemble of the city.
Mirabell Palace was built in 1606 by prince-archbishop Wolf Dietrich for his beloved Salome Alt. Today, it serves as the backdrop for the most romantic weddings you could possibly imagine.
Fortress Hohensalzburg
Hohensalzburg Fortress is enthroned on the Festungsberg, high above the rooftops of the Baroque historical district. The biggest fully preserved castle in Central Europe, this emblem of Salzburg draws millions of tourists to our "City of Mozart" every year.
Schloss Leopoldskron
Picturesquely situated Schloss Leopoldskron lies just a few minutes’ walk from the Salzburg historical district, the world-famous former family seat of one of the prince-archbishops as well as an original shooting location from the movie “The Sound of Music”.
Mozart
Mozart was born in Salzburg back in 1756. The Mozart Residence on Makartplatz and the Mozart Birthplace on the Getreidegasse, both of which are now museums, remind us of his extraordinary childhood. Numerous concerts, festivals and guided tours keep the spirit of Mozart alive and well in Salzburg.
Festive evening at the Stieglkeller
Our congress dinner will take place on October 12th at 7:00 p.m. in the Stiegl-Keller restaurant, which is located in the heart of Salzburg city center, below the Hohensalzburg Fortress. The garden offers a unique view of Salzburg's old town.
Take the opportunity for a little sightseeing and opt (for a small fee) for the "Guided Salzburg Walk to the Festive Evening". This way, you will be accompanied by a certified tour guide and pass many of Salzburg's famous places, walking from the congress center directly to the Festive evening at the Stieglkeller.
