“This city is full of life!”
On rbb last night (3.12.) there was a report “50 reasons why you have to love Salzburg.” A tourist portrait of the city and province of Salzburg.
Hera Lind, writer and actress, lives in Salzburg and sums it up relatively early on in this documentary: ‘This city is full of life!’ Which is undoubtedly true. The editorial team at rbb has compiled 50 reasons why you have to love Salzburg. These subjectively compiled reasons start at number 50 with the Salzburg Festival – full of life. ‘Salzburg is this cosmopolitan city in summer,’ as Verena Altenberger, who will play the Buhlschaft in Jedermann in 2021, enthuses in the trailer for the Salzburg Festival. For six weeks in summer, the global who’s who of opera, theatre and concert music meets in Salzburg.
Vivienne Westwood in Salzburg
What follows from number 49 onwards is an entertaining journey through the city of Salzburg and its fairytale surroundings. This includes a visit to the Fürst confectionery on the Alter Markt (number 43), where the Mozartkugel was created in 1890, and a visit to the Jahn Markl tannery, which has been producing leather clothing for 600 years. The fact that Emperor Franz Josef I once paid a personal visit, as did Vivienne Westwood and Karl Lagerfeld around 100 years later, illustrates this long tradition. This rbb documentary offers a multifaceted encounter with over 1,000 years of city history. From St. Peter’s Abbey, Salzburg Cathedral and Hohensalzburg Fortress to Residenzplatz (‘The Rome of the North’), interesting stories span a wide arc up to the present day.
The cone of the stone pine
For example, to the Sporer liqueur and punch factory in Getreidegasse. Among other things, it offers a Swiss stone pine schnapps. This is made from the cones of the Swiss stone pine. These grow at altitudes above 1500 metres. The rbb team takes us there, as well as to the Weisses Rössl on Lake Wolfgang, Lake Fuschl and the Salzburg Salt Mines. Underground salt mining began there 2000 years ago, laying the foundation for the city’s importance on the Salzach River today. Finally, in first place is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The city’s first son left Salzburg in 1781 after a dispute with the archbishop. Rolando Villazon, artistic director of Mozart Week, expresses his love for Mozart’s world in a moving interview full of fervour.
Salzburg is a synthesis of the arts of picturesque landscape, culture and history that you can really fall in love with – just like the author of these lines. So it’s best to sit on the sofa with a good drink and get some inspiration for your next trip. And if Corona allows you to travel again sometime – go there and experience it. Because this city is full of life.
“50 reasons why you have to love Salzburg”.
In the rbb media library.
Idyll at the lake
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One of the most beautiful corners of Europe
Salzburg lies in beautiful surroundings at the foot of the Alps. Not only the city but also numerous surrounding towns offer great attractions. From the Eisriesenwelt to the Fahrtraum in Mattsee, the Gasteiner Tal or the Salzwelten, Hellbrunn Castle to the Lokwelt Freilassing. Salzburg is so diverse! [Read more]
No whip cracking!
The monthly Merian issue appeared at the end of January, this time on Salzburg and at the same time the seventh time since 1964 that Merian has focused on Salzburg. No cracking the whip! According to tradition, what sounds like an instruction from an S&M studio was still written around […] [Read more]
An afternoon at Hellbrunn Palace
Hellbrunn Palace was built about 400 years ago by Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus – as a pleasure palace and summer residence. gaysalzburg.at visited the palace, the fountains and the extensive park with Selina and Lisa from Salzburg and Christoph and Andreas from Vienna. A world of its own! Great fun! [Read more]
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