S ophie Butler suggests taking a winter break in Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart and renowned for its Christmas cheer. Go now As an often snowy winter takes hold, Salzburg’s wide city squares ...

Salzburg, whose most famous son is Mozart, was also the birthplace of Joseph Mohr, who wrote Silent Night. Mohr was born in 1792 in Steingasse, a fashionable address today, but a slum in the 18th ...