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| Salzburg, literally Salt Fortress, was a rich Prince-Archbishopric for over 1000 years (until Napoleon). |
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| Hohensalzburg Fortress overlooks the city. Its first iteration was built in 1077. |
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| The only siege the fortress ever faced was during the German Peasants' War. |
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| Armor from the Thirty Years War |
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| Prince-Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach developed the fortress and salt mines. His family crest is a turnip. |
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| Turnips. Turnips everywhere! |
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| Salzburg Cathedral was rebuilt by Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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| Salzburg has a lot of great fountains. This horse should get its nose checked out. |
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| Salzburg Cathedral has some ornate ceilings. |
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| It wouldn't be Europe without a questionable art exhibition in a holy site. |
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| Strike me down! |
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| This is the first thing you see when you leave the main underground parking garage in Salzburg. |
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| Salzburg has many great breweries, but Stiegl is the most famous. |
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| The food isn't too bad either! |
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| Many corporations have embraced Salzburg's traditional signage. |
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| Saint Peter's Abbey was founded in the 7th century. It is home to a very good restaurant, and possibly the oldest in the world, the Stiftskulinarium. |
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| There are also ancient catacombs/hermitages carved into the rock there. |
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| The Salzach river runs through the city. |
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| The Residenz is the palace of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg. There are more homages to Greek and Roman mythology than Catholicism there. |
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| A tapestry in the audience hall in the Residenz |
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| The ceiling decorations probably gave some guests a good scare late at night. |
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| The curiosity room has an excellent stuffed monkey. |
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| Mankind has been bedazzling for hundreds of years. |
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| Mirabell Palace was built for Prince-Archbishop Wold Dietrich Raitenau's mistress. I'm not sure this Pegasus was a good addition. |
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| The palace has an excellent dwarf garden featuring one for every month. Two are missing and no one knows where they are! |
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| Preserved for posterity. |
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| Hallein, near Salzburg, is the home of the region's main salt mine, and many Celtic artifacts. This bronze helmet is from 1300-1000 B.C. |
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| If you ever wanted to see a cylinder full of ancient Celtic dog bones, this is the place for you! |
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| Celts loved spiral jewelry. |
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| And fibula! |
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| The museum's prized possession is this very fancy bronze serving jug. |
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| The rooms above the museum is home to some odd paintings. I guess this is how the Prince-Bishop toured the mines. |
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| Logs down the Salzbach |
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| Women were allowed to work in this human hamster wheel? |
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| I think history remembers this conflict differently... |
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| In between Salzburg and Hallein is the Hellbrunn Palace and Zoo. |
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| Lemurs roam free here?! |
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| Handsome |
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| The lemurs are able to enter other animals' enclosures. |
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| Which has secondary effects... |
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| All good zoos let you feed some of the animals! |
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| Hellbrunn Palace was built by Prince-Archbishop Markus Sittich von Hohenems in the early 17th century. |
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| The Prince-Archbishop built a pleasure garden filled with trick fountains. |
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| Predecessors to the Mirabell dwarves |
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| Watch out! |
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| It's hard not to get soaked here. |
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| That tongue wagging monster is possibly the most suggestive thing I have seen in a Baroque garden. |
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| Don't mess with the boar. |
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| An intricate water powered automaton in the waterpark |
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| Like all great Prince-Archbishops, Markus favored Greek mythology, as seen in this Actaeon fountain. |
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| The creature of the Salzburg forest |
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| They will tell you Salzburger Nockerl serves two. That is a lie. |
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| But we managed to finish it anyway. |
