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The Untersberg, from Hellbrunn gardens,
the day before
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Cable-car up to nearly the top
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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
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From the station at the top: cables descending into the void
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The Untersberg, from Salzburg outskirts, a few days later
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The main hall of the Hellbrunn Palace
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Beginning of the trick fountains: the Archbishop's dinner
table
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To some it's actually a surprise
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Grotto--lots of them--of St. George killing
the dragon
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Water-powered miniature city with 160 moving figures
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17th-century trick fountain control-panel;
"pay no attention to that man at the control
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Another scene from Sound of Music, the "conservatory"
scene, was filmed at Hellbrunn; Vicki is singing "I am 62,
going on 63..."
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We next visited the folk museum, up the hill on the
Hellbrunn estate
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Looking back to Salzburg and the fortress
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And the Hellbrunn palace
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Silly folk hats in the museum; did my
forebears wear one of these?!
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And a bit of theology
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The Stiegl brewery |
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Brew World |
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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 |
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But the main thing you need to know, in Salzburg, is that |
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Mozart drank Stiegl |
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A fascinating exhibit on alternative ways to open a beer bottle |
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Art |
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In one of the tasting rooms/restaurants |
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Mozart statue in the city square; never has one city made more of/off one person...who died in abject poverty |
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The Birth House |
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Clandestine shot in the Geburthaus |
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The Wohnhaus |
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The Haus fur Mozart; the Festspielhaus, home of the Salzburg Easter Festival, most prestigious of all musical events (so I have read) |
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Festspielhaus, dome, and fortress |
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To be a street musician in this town, you'd better be good; these guys were good, performing from The Marriage of Figaro |
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| Prince/Archbishop Leopold Firmian, the bad guy who expelled the Protestants, including the Scheraus's |
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| Some of the Salzburger Museum coverage of the matter |
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| Ditto |
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| Ditto again |
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| Me expressing my sentiments to Prince/ Archbishop Firmian (characteristically, perhaps, standing under the wrong portrait; nobody's perfect) |
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| The Salzburger Museum, which also had a very good exhibit on the Salzburg Mystique; very interesting |
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| Under the Cathedral, Roman ruins, including two layers of mosaic (fashions change...) |
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| The cathedral is old |
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| But unremarkably Baroque |
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| The Prince/Archbishop's Residence is a grim reminder that almost nothing of larger historical significance ever happened in Salzburg |
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The main pedestrian street, the Getreidegasse, is always a
mad-house; reminded us of Pushkar during the camel fair
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A Rickie Stevie-approved restaurant; we had a quick lunch
there one day
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In the massive Christmas store; they do eggs for Xmas?
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Signs on the Getreidegasse
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Most popular sign on the Getreidegasse
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Rathaus
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Horse trough under the Monchsberg
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Old market square
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Cafe Tomascelli; we never could find a table
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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
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13th and 14th century buildings (restored in 19th and 20th
centuries) under the Monchsberg
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