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by Rick Steves, March 28, 2023 | Salzburg offers visitors plenty of opportunities to learn about, or simply bask in, the delightful work of its greatest composer. Read more here.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister were born in a modest, five-room home in Salzburg where the family lived for a number of years. It had only one bedroom for all of them.
Anyone with an affinity for Mozart’s symphonies or a deep love of “The Sound of Music” has likely dreamed of traveling to Salzburg. The fourth-largest city in Austria, Salzburg was home to ...
Salzburg is forever smiling to the tunes of Mozart and “The Sound of Music.” Thanks to its charming old town, splendid Baroque churches and one of Europe’s largest medieval fortresses ...
The birthplace of Mozart — and everyone's Sound of Music fantasies — Salzburg is a Baroque jewel of a town. It's also the springboard for lots of alpine fun—from thrilling summer bobsledding ...
Currently shooting “Sisi” for the RTL Group and Beta Film, Germany’s Story House Pictures has added N’Gone Thiam to the core writing team of six-hour suspense drama “Mozart/Mozart ...
In the Salzburg area, low supply and a revived seller’s market are keeping the inventory moving. 11 Photos View Slide Show › By Marcelle Sussman Fischler This four-bedroom penthouse sits on a ...
Caroline McLean, known to all simply as Carrie, married William Worthington Chipman in 1857. They lived in a “knock-down house” brought across San Francisco Bay and reassembled in the little ...
“Silent Night” was first performed 200 years ago in Salzburg, Austria. Read the story behind its 1818 creation and rise to global fame that has some unexpected twists.
1785 - Leopold visits and Mozart meets Lorenzo Da Ponte The New Year brought a new visitor to the Mozart household in Vienna. Leopold upped sticks from Salzburg to visit his son in his plush pad on ...