Culture, design & architecture

Begun in 1077 and one of Europe’s great castles. The funicular, running since 1892, climbs to the courtyards, Gothic princes’ rooms of 1501 and wide views. Daily 09:30–17:00 in winter; adults €15.50–19.20.

Consecrated in 1628, with a great Baroque dome. Mozart was baptised here on 28 January 1756.

One route through the Residenz state rooms, the Cathedral Museum and the Museum of St. Peter. Open 10:00–17:00, closed Tuesdays outside the holidays.

Getreidegasse 9: 18th-century rooms, letters, portraits and Mozart’s childhood violin. Daily 09:00–17:30; adults €18, children 6–14 €6, family €32.

Built around 1606 for Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich. Maria and the children dance round the Pegasus fountain in “Do-Re-Mi”. Gardens free, daily from about 06:00 to dusk; the dwarf garden closes in winter.

Founded around 714, where the real Maria von Trapp entered as a postulant in 1924. The gate and St. John’s Chapel are open; the nuns sing Gregorian chant at 06:45.

The film’s lakeside terrace scenes were shot beside this 1736 palace. See the house across the small lake; the palace itself is a hotel.

The palace and trick fountains are closed until late March, but the park and the neighbouring zoo make a gentle winter walk.

A 2004 museum on the cliff top, clad in Untersberg marble, with one of the best views of the domes and fortress.

A UNESCO-listed salt town of fewer than 800 people between the lake and the Dachstein. In winter the lanes are quiet and the roofs often snowy.

In St. Michael’s Chapel above the village: more than 1,200 skulls, about 600 painted with names and flowers, from a time when the churchyard ran out of room.