Showing posts with label Salzburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salzburg. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Ascent of the Untersberg

The final trip on our Salzburger Cards, as the last seconds of our 72 hour limit expired, was the cable-car ride up the Untersberg, the bigger mountain that overlooks the valley and city
The Untersberg, from Hellbrunn gardens,
the day before












Cable-car up to nearly the top











View at the top: total white-out, cold, raining, windy; I was
going to walk to the summit for a day-hike, but quickly
came to my senses







From the station at the top: cables descending into the void








The Untersberg, from Salzburg outskirts, a few days later

Hellbrunn

And one day we took the bus out to Hellbrunn, the Prince/Archbishops' summer palace a few miles from Salzburg. It is notable for its "trick fountains"--sort of a 17th century water park--everyone gets a splash. At least one of the Prince/Archbishops had a sense of humor.
The main hall of the Hellbrunn Palace







Beginning of the trick fountains: the Archbishop's dinner
table








To some it's actually a surprise










Grotto--lots of them--of St. George killing
the dragon












Water-powered minitature city with 160 moving figures









17th-century trick fountain control-panel;
"pay no attention to that man at the control 
panel"













Another scene from Sound of Music, the "conservatory"
scene, was filmed at Hellbrunn; Vicki is singing "I am 62,
going on 63..."







We next visited the folk museum, up the hill on the
Hellbrunn estate









Looking back to Salzburg and the fortress








And the Hellbrunn palace










Silly folk hats in the museum; did my
forebears wear one of these?!












And a bit of theology

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Es muss ein Stiegl sein!

It must be a Steigl! We spent a few pleasant hours touring the Stiegl brewery. Salzburg's beer. Also said to be the largest brewery exhibition in Europe. The ticket included 3 biers each; I had to go back the next day to finish them off.

The Stiegl brewery









Brew World












Exhibits ranged over 4 floors or so; what they did was
convert the old 19th-20th century brewery into a huge
museum; all the old machinery; art; much more







But the main thing you need to know, in Salzburg, is that











Mozart drank Stiegl











A fascinating exhibit on alternative ways to open a beer
bottle







Art













In one of the tasting rooms/restaurants

Music City

Mozart statue in the city square; never has
one city made more of/off one person...who
died in abject poverty













The Birth House












Clandestine shot in the Geburthaus







The Wohnhaus








The Haus fur Mozart; the Festspielhaus, home of the
Salzburg Easter Festival, most prestigious of all musical
events (so I have read)











Festspielhaus, dome, and
fortress












To be a street musician in this town, you'd better be good;
these guys were good, performing from The Marriage of
Figaro

Expulsion!

Prince/Archbishop Leopold Firmian, 
the bad guy who expelled the 
Protestants, including the Scheraus's




















Some of the Salzburger Museum 
coverage of the matter




















Ditto


















Ditto again


















Me expressing my sentiments to Prince/
Archbishop Firmian (characteristically, perhaps,
standing under the wrong portrait; nobody's perfect)
















The Salzburger Museum, which also had a
very good exhibit on the Salzburg Mystique;
very interesting
















Under the Cathedral, Roman ruins, including
two layers of mosaic (fashions change...)














The cathedral is old
















But unremarkably Baroque


















The Prince/Archbishop's Residence is a grim
reminder that almost nothing of larger historical
significance ever happened in Salzburg

Salzburg Street Scenes

A composite of several days' travel in and around Salzburg
The main pedestrian street, the Getreidegasse, is always a
mad-house; reminded us of Pushkar during the camel fair







A Rickie Stevie-approved restaurant; we had a quick lunch
there one day








In the massive Christmas store; they do eggs for Xmas?








Signs on the Getreidegasse










Most popular sign on the Getreidegasse











Rathaus











Horse trough under the Monchsberg







Old market square








Cafe Tomascelli; we never could find a table









Getreidegasse another day; still a mob scene;
Salzburg's various audio-tours generally
come in nine languages, most we have ever
scene; and tour groups from everywhere














13th and 14th century buildings (restored in 19th and 20th
centuries) under the Monchsberg