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is it the one with the years ago. The views of the spires
“OH, kittens and mit- of 27 churches, the fast flowing
tens?” my husband asked as city Salzach River and the snow-cov-
guide Michaela Muhr began to talk ered mountains can be best en-
about the Sound Of Music while joyed from the towering Fortress
we walked through the streets of Hohensalzburg, one of the biggest
Salzburg. Unknown to me, as a in Europe. “The whole complex
child, he used to watch it every compares more to a little village
year for Christmas however, most housing up to 300 people at its
Austrians don’t have any idea what peak”, Muhr explained. It’s tempt-
Julie Andrews’ favorite things are. ing to spend half a day here with
In fact, according to Muhr, it the Marionette Museum being a
wasn’t until 2002 that the film special visitors’ favorite.
premiered on national television. We descended the steep steps
“It doesn’t paint a pretty picture and emerged next to the cemetery
and Salzburgers prefer to think of of St Peter’s Monastery. Local doc-
their city as the city of Mozart”, tors, lawyers and nobility as well
she said. as composer Michael Haydn,
The legacy of one of the world’s brother of Joseph, Mozart’s sister
greatest composers is noticeable “Nannerl” and Paul Fürst of the
everywhere. There’s the statue in chocolate fame - the last watched
the Old Town, the annual Mozart over by skull-bearing cherubs - are
Week and, of course, the buried here.
Mozartkugel. While the golden Everything is really close by, so
chocolate balls have been ex- we strolled further past the cathe-
ported around the world, the orig- dral, a masterpiece of baroque art
inal ones are actually wrapped in with a bulbous copper dome,
silver foil and can be bought where through the romantic Goldgasse
Paul Fürst invented them in 1890 - where lots of jewelry and craft
at Café Konditorei Fürst. The stores are located, across the
birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus, Salzach River, and finally into
a house on Getreidegasse in which Mirabell Gardens. The flowery
the Mozart family resided for 26 parterres, rose gardens and leafy
years’, is now a museum. arbors were in full bloom. The ad-
The Old Town, burrowed below joining Zwergerlgarten (Dwarf
steep hills, looks much like it did Garden), founded around 1695, is
when Mozart lived here over 250 the oldest in Europe.

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