Curated by Salzkammergut
Salzburg
Austria's fourth-largest city, its baroque old town packed between the Salzach and the fortress hill of Hohensalzburg, known the world over for Mozart and the summer festival.
- 28Highlights
- 2Routes
Highlights
The 20 highest-rated · see the rest on salzburg.info ↗
Festung Hohensalzburg
The 11th-century fortress on its rock above Salzburg's old town, among Europe's largest preserved castles, reached by funicular or on foot.
Großglockner Hochalpenstraße
The high alpine road over the Tauern between Salzburg and Carinthia, opened in 1935, climbing past 2,500 m to viewpoints facing the Großglockner.
Schloss Mirabell, Mirabellgarten
A 17th-century palace in Salzburg with formal Baroque gardens laid out on the axis of the fortress, its Marble Hall used for concerts and weddings.
Stadt Salzburg
The city of Salzburg, birthplace of Mozart, whose Baroque old town beneath the Hohensalzburg fortress is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Domquartier Salzburg
A museum circuit in Salzburg's baroque centre linking the Residenz state rooms, the cathedral galleries and St Peter's, opened as a joint route in 2014.
Museen in Salzburg
An overview of the museums in Salzburg's old town, from the Residenz galleries to the Salzburg Museum on Mozartplatz.
Rainer Regimental Museum Salzburg
A museum in the Hohensalzburg fortress on the Salzburg Rainer Regiment, the city's imperial and royal infantry regiment.
Red Cross Museum Salzburg
Salzburg's Red Cross museum, showing how the city's ambulance and rescue services developed over more than a century.
Rotes-Kreuz-Museum Salzburg
A museum in Salzburg on the history of the Red Cross, with ambulances, rescue equipment and uniforms.
Salzburg Museum of Military History
A museum of military history on the western edge of Salzburg, covering the province's regiments and the Austrian armed forces.
Stefan Zweig Zentrum Salzburg
A centre on the Kapuzinerberg in Salzburg devoted to the writer Stefan Zweig, near the villa where he lived until 1934.
Euthanasie Mahnmal in Salzburg von Otto Saxinger
A memorial by Otto Saxinger in Salzburg to the victims of the Nazi euthanasia killings, set in public space in the city.
Festungsberg
The wooded hill in Salzburg that carries the Hohensalzburg fortress, with footpaths up from the old town to the walls.
Funicular to the Fortress [FestungsBahn]
A funicular in Salzburg's old town that climbs from the Festungsgasse to the Hohensalzburg fortress, running since 1892.
Schloss Hellbrunn
A Renaissance palace south of Salzburg, known for its trick water features and the garden pavilion from The Sound of Music.
Haus der Natur
Salzburg's natural history and science museum, with an aquarium, reptile zoo, space hall and hands-on science centre in the old town.
Marionette Museum
A museum in the Hohensalzburg fortress on Salzburg's marionette tradition and the puppets of the Marionette Theatre.
Mozart Ton- und Filmsammlung
A Salzburg archive of Mozart recordings and films, held by the Mozarteum Foundation as a research collection.
Mozarts Wohnhaus, Mozart Denkmal und Mozartplatz
Three Mozart sites in Salzburg city: the family's residence on Makartplatz, the bronze monument unveiled in 1842, and the square named after the composer.
Museum “Art of the Lost Generation”
A private museum in Salzburg showing painters whose careers were broken by National Socialism and largely forgotten afterwards.
Historic site
![Funicular to the Fortress [FestungsBahn]](https://www.salzburg.info/deskline/infrastruktur/objekte/FestungsBahn_11602/1166640/image-thumb__1166640__slider-main/festungsbahn_22799737.63bc4ad5.jpg)
Nothing of this kind in Salzburg.
Routes
18 from neighbouring places
Große Gaisbergrunde
A circuit from Koppl right around the Gaisberg, the hill that the city of Salzburg treats as its own back garden.
- 13.5 km
- Distance
- 729 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 12 min
- Duration
Rennradtour SalzburgerLand
The opening stage of a road-bike route out of Salzburg, crossing the lake country of the Seenland to finish at Ebenau.
- 79.8 km
- Distance
- 1 255 m
- Ascent
- 8 h 12 min
- Duration
Rund um Koppl
8.3 km away, in Koppl
An easy village circuit on lanes and field paths around Koppl, with very little climbing anywhere on it.
- 4.6 km
- Distance
- 115 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 22 min
- Duration
Gaisbergspitze über Nockstein
8.4 km away, in Koppl
A two-summit day walk from Koppl: first the rocky crest above the village, then the long climb to the peak overlooking Salzburg.
- 13.2 km
- Distance
- 1 043 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 45 min
- Duration
Mountainbike-Strecke: Sonnberg
14.3 km away, in Faistenau
A short and very steep climb on the Sonnberg above Faistenau, in the hills of the Salzburg Flachgau, with some 700 m of ascent.
- 32.5 km
- Distance
- 747 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 35 min
- Duration
Mühlenrundweg von Koppl zur Plötz
8.3 km away, in Koppl
A circular walk from Koppl out to the Plötz, a mill-themed route through the fields and woods around the village.
- 7.2 km
- Distance
- 230 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 15 min
- Duration
Moorrundwanderweg
8.3 km away, in Koppl
A short and almost level loop around the moorland at Koppl, easy enough for an hour on foot.
- 3.4 km
- Distance
- 40 m
- Ascent
- 54 min
- Duration
Kapellenspur I: Große Runde ( Weg Nr. 90)
12.7 km away, in Hof bei Salzburg
A long themed circuit through the farmland around Hof bei Salzburg, linking private farm chapels and the old Rauchhaus Mühlgrub museum farm.
- 15.2 km
- Distance
- 525 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 53 min
- Duration
Meierhofbach Rundwanderung
8.3 km away, in Koppl
An easy-going circuit from Koppl along the Meierhofbach stream, level enough to walk in an afternoon.
- 9.1 km
- Distance
- 232 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 43 min
- Duration
Nockstein
8.4 km away, in Koppl
A short mountain walk from the centre of Koppl up to a rocky top, with views out over the Fuschlsee country.
- 3.7 km
- Distance
- 305 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 29 min
- Duration
Nocksteinschlucht Rundwanderung
8.3 km away, in Koppl
A circuit from Koppl through the wooded gorge under the crag, returning over open farmland above the village.
- 10.6 km
- Distance
- 405 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 29 min
- Duration
Ebenauer Märchenwanderweg
9.4 km away, in Ebenau
A short themed loop for families in the woods around Ebenau, east of Salzburg, with fairy tales told along the route.
- 3.0 km
- Distance
- 86 m
- Ascent
- 54 min
- Duration
Gaisbergspitze über Ostgrad
8.3 km away, in Koppl
A climb from Koppl by the east ridge, the shorter way onto the broad summit above the Salzburg basin.
- 8.7 km
- Distance
- 555 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 47 min
- Duration
Ebenauer Mühlenwanderweg
9.6 km away, in Ebenau
A very short and easy walk around Ebenau on the theme of its old mills, with barely any climbing.
- 2.2 km
- Distance
- 45 m
- Ascent
- 38 min
- Duration
Rundwanderweg Heuberg
8.3 km away, in Koppl
A long circuit from Koppl over the wooded Heuberg, gently graded for its length and walkable in half a day.
- 14.2 km
- Distance
- 395 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 18 min
- Duration
Ebenauer Wasserweg
9.7 km away, in Ebenau
A water-themed stroll of little more than half a kilometre through the village of Ebenau, nearly flat throughout.
- 574 m
- Distance
- 11 m
- Ascent
- 9 min
- Duration
Landschaftsspur (95)
12.7 km away, in Hof bei Salzburg
A longer circuit through the farmed hills around Hof bei Salzburg, laid out to show how the worked landscape came about.
- 13.0 km
- Distance
- 665 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 36 min
- Duration
Kapellenspur II: Der alte Prozessionsweg
12.7 km away, in Hof bei Salzburg
A short walk at Hof bei Salzburg following an old processional route between wayside chapels.
- 1.8 km
- Distance
- 71 m
- Ascent
- 32 min
- Duration
Lidaun (Weg 95 und 96, Gipfel 44)
12.7 km away, in Hof bei Salzburg
A family-friendly ascent with the Bärenhöhle cave to explore, several possible variants, and the Fuschlsee in sight much of the way.
- 6.2 km
- Distance
- 565 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 41 min
- Duration
Waldspur
12.7 km away, in Hof bei Salzburg
An easy forest round from the village office at Hof, crossing the main road by the pond and joining the Höhenweg above.
- 5.5 km
- Distance
- 149 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 38 min
- Duration
No routes of this kind in Salzburg yet.
Planning a trip to Salzburg?
Everything else Salzburg (state) has, in one place
Take Salzburg with you into the mountains
Every route on this page with 3D terrain, GPX navigation and offline maps — including the valleys with no signal.
Data sources
- Official website: salzburg.info ↗
- Routes and highlights: Salzkammergut, Salzburg, Wilder Kaiser Tourismus, Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Tourismus
- Published as open data by the tourist boards named above.
- Region summary generated from the board's own material.
