Everybody slept in this morning, so breakfast at the hotel at 10:30 AM
was pretty crowded. (Most hotels in Europe (at least the places we've
been) include breakfast with the room price.) After breakfast we started
our day of touring. We bought the "Salzburg Card" which lets
you in to any of the museums in the city for free during a 24 hour
period. The weather was good, so we decided to start with the outside
stuff. We took the "funulator" (a cable car which takes you
up the hill) up to the fortress. After touring the outside part of the
fortress, we went on the tour of the inside. The most interesting rooms
were where the "prince-archbishop" had his rooms. (He also
had a residence in the city, but had to have rooms in the fortress too
in case he was stuck there for awhile.)
Also in the fortress was a marionette museum, which was interesting.
It was rather small, but it showed several marionettes, as well as some
scenes like the ones pictured here. They also had one set up that you
could try out yourself.
In the city they have a marionette theatre where they perform
regularly -- it looks like mostly operas. We were thinking about going
to one of the shows, but we missed "The Magic Flute" night
and decided not to try "Die Fladermouse".
We walked down from the fortress and on the way we stopped by the
abbey where the woman from The Sound of Music had come from and where
she got married in real life (not at the church in Mondsee that we had
seen).
Next we went back to the main cathedral (the Dom church) to walk around
the inside. It was Sara's favorite church of the ones we've seen so far.
Many of the churches we have seen focused more on Mary or on the bishops
or whoever had the church built. This one wasn't that way as much. It
also wasn't as gaudy as some of the others we have seen.
Certainly big and lots of paintings and statues, but not overdone as
much.
The picture on the right is of an arch outside the abbey. The statue
above the arch is of St Erentraud. She is holding a model of the
cathedral. She was apparently one of the key people in getting the
cathedral built. In many of the places we visited they had statues and
things commemorating the people responsible for various buildings and
things.
The next place we went to was the place Mozart lived for several
years as he was growing up. It's a museum now. (There is another museum
in the house where he was born, but the one we went to was supposed to
be the more interesting of the two.) It had a lot of information about
his life, some instruments that he played on, and recordings of some of
the music he composed.
The night before we had identified a couple of places to eat. But
tonight we couldn't remember where one of them was, and the other two
were closed. We finally gave up and found another pub to eat at. The
food was quite good, although it was a bit more expensive than some of
the other places we had gone.
