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Best Places to Eat ¨ Magazin (p234) ¨ Gasthof Schloss Aigen (p232) ¨ Obauer (p244) ¨ Mayer’s (p254) ¨ Lutter & Wegner (p258) Best Places to Stay ¨ Haus Ballwein (p228) ¨ Hotel & Villa Auersperg (p228) ¨ Bio-Hotel Hammerhof (p245) ¨ Pension Hubertus (p251) ¨ Hoteldorf Grüner Baum (p258) Salzburg 218 Werfen 243 Filzmoos 245 Hohe Tauern National Park 246 Grossglockner Road 247 Zell am See 250 Krimml 255 Bad Gastein 256 Why Go? One of Austria’s smallest provinces, Salzburgerland is proof that size really doesn’t matter. Well, not when you have Mo- zart, Maria von Trapp and the 600-year legacy of the prince- archbishops behind you. This is the land that grabbed the world spotlight and shouted ‘Visit Austria!’ with Julie An- drews skipping joyously down the mountainsides. This is indeed the land of crisp apple strudel, dancing marionettes and high-on-a-hilltop castles. This is the Austria of your wildest childhood dreams. Salzburg is every bit as grand as you imagine it: a baroque masterpiece, a classical-music legend and Austria’s spiritual heartland. But it is just the prelude to the region’s sensa- tional natural beauty. Just outside the city, the landscape is etched with deep ravines, glinting ice caves, karst plateaux and mountains of myth – in short, the kind of alpine gor- geousness that no well-orchestrated symphony or yodelling nun could ever quite capture. When to Go ¨ Prices peak in family-friendly alpine resorts during winter, from December to early April. Salzburg twinkles at its Christmas markets. In January orchestras strike up at Mozartwoche, while hot-air balloons glide above Filzmoos’ summits. ¨ Summer sees room prices soar in Salzburg and nosedive in alpine resorts from June to September. Book months ahead for the colossal feast of opera, classical music and drama that is the Salzburg Festival from late July to August. Head for high-altitude hiking in the limestone Tennengebirge and Dachstein ranges, and the glacier-capped Hohe Tauern National Park, or lakeside chilling in Zell am See. ¨ Shoulder-season months April, May, October and November bring few crowds and low room rates. Salzburg hosts Easter classical-music festivals. Salzburg & Salzburgerland ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
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Best Places to Eat¨¨ Magazin (p234)
¨¨ Gasthof Schloss Aigen (p232)
¨¨ Obauer (p244)
¨¨ Mayer’s (p254)
¨¨ Lutter & Wegner (p258)
Best Places to Stay¨¨ Haus Ballwein (p228)
¨¨ Hotel & Villa Auersperg (p228)
¨¨ Bio-Hotel Hammerhof (p245)
¨¨ Pension Hubertus (p251)
¨¨ Hoteldorf Grüner Baum (p258)
Salzburg . . . . . . . . . . . .218Werfen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Filzmoos. . . . . . . . . . . 245Hohe.Tauern..National.Park. . . . . . . 246Grossglockner..Road. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247Zell.am.See. . . . . . . . . 250Krimml. . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Bad.Gastein . . . . . . . . 256
Why Go?One of Austria’s smallest provinces, Salzburgerland is proof that size really doesn’t matter. Well, not when you have Mo-zart, Maria von Trapp and the 600-year legacy of the prince-archbishops behind you. This is the land that grabbed the world spotlight and shouted ‘Visit Austria!’ with Julie An-drews skipping joyously down the mountainsides. This is indeed the land of crisp apple strudel, dancing marionettes and high-on-a-hilltop castles. This is the Austria of your wildest childhood dreams.
Salzburg is every bit as grand as you imagine it: a baroque masterpiece, a classical-music legend and Austria’s spiritual heartland. But it is just the prelude to the region’s sensa-tional natural beauty. Just outside the city, the landscape is etched with deep ravines, glinting ice caves, karst plateaux and mountains of myth – in short, the kind of alpine gor-geousness that no well-orchestrated symphony or yodelling nun could ever quite capture.
When to Go¨¨ Prices peak in family-friendly alpine resorts during
winter, from December to early April. Salzburg twinkles at its Christmas markets. In January orchestras strike up at Mozartwoche, while hot-air balloons glide above Filzmoos’ summits.
¨¨ Summer sees room prices soar in Salzburg and nosedive in alpine resorts from June to September. Book months ahead for the colossal feast of opera, classical music and drama that is the Salzburg Festival from late July to August. Head for high-altitude hiking in the limestone Tennengebirge and Dachstein ranges, and the glacier-capped Hohe Tauern National Park, or lakeside chilling in Zell am See.
¨¨ Shoulder-season months April, May, October and November bring few crowds and low room rates. Salzburg hosts Easter classical-music festivals.
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1.Surveying.the.baroque.cityscape.of.Salzburg.(p218)from.the.heights.of.Festung.Hohensalzburg ..
2.Going.subzero.in.the.frozen.depths.of.eisriesenwelt.in.Werfen.(p243) .3.Getting.drenched.by.the.fountains.at.Schloss Hellbrunn.(p240) .
4.Singing.‘do-Re-Mi’.in.the.gardens.of.Schloss.Mirabell.in Salzburg.(p218) .5.donning.a.boiler.suit.for.a.ride.at.the.Salzwelten.salt.mine.in.Bad Dürrnberg.(p241) ..6.Buckling.up.for.an.alpine.roller-coaster.ride.on.Grossglockner Road.(p246) .
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