One Day in Salzburg, Austria

Mozart, Mozart and and almost everything ranging from food, drink, coffee, chocolates or even souvenirs we bumped into in Salzburg has some connections with Mozart, the legendary born in Salzburg. Indeed, the city of Salzburg is beautiful, especially its old town where it is famed as one of the best preserved city centers in the German speaking world and has attained the status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Unfortunately we only had a day to explore this magnificent town but we maximized our only day (less than 24 hours) here to see the best of Salzburg. The stay here was more for a quick layover to continue our trip to Hallstatt and Prague later.

The journey along the Salzach River en route to the old town of Salzburg was beautiful, especially when the sun set down. 

 

Right next to Salzach river is Getreidegasse, a bustling and narrow street in the old town of Salzburg that will entice all different types of shoppers. There are jewelry, fashion, perfume, groceries stores and many more that tempting you to spend money here. However, you'd want to explore here before the dusk set in as most of the shops have closed when we took a stroll here in the evening. The crowd has dispersed too. 

The houses here have unique design yet typical of the Salzburg historical district. It is called through-houses, where front and back of buildings are out onto different streets but somehow an arcade passage way is connecting the two streets. These arcade passageways often feature interesting items, such as arts, trendy fashion items, luxury watches and anything nice for display. It is alike an advertisement slot with real items. Then as you walk onto the arcade passage way, there might be a garden where restaurants put up their tables and chairs and make a nice place for a cup of coffee. 

Walking at Getreidegasse gives a sense of transforming into middle ages. Cobbled street, beautiful doorways and wrought guild signs protruding from the building facades. 

Getreidegasse also renowned as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, where he lived at the No.9 house until the age of 17. Now it has turned into a museum, and die-hard Mozart fans probably would not want to miss the opportunity to enter here. This explains why everything in Salzburg has got something to do with Mozart right? 

There is a big church standing at the end of Getreidegasse - St Blascius' Church. The church has a long history dated back to 1330, where it acted as a civic hospital for the city of Salzburg.

As we walked further from Getreidegasse, we came across Residenzplatz, a beautiful square in the historic centre of Salzburg. There is a catchy fountain in the centre, which later only we found out it is the largest Baroque fountain in Central Europe. 

There is lesser people surrounding Residenzplatz compared to Getreidegasse relatively. Too much crowd at Getreidegasse, particularly the a group of tourist travelling in exodus sometimes make us feel want to get out from there as soon as possible. 

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This marks out first times trying pasta with some real truffle topping it. The truffle scent really can be felt and it it feels unique and nice. Tasted a bit like fermented taste, and complemented the creamy pasta well.

One of the popular dish in Austria is Schnitzel, a type of dish featuring thin protein fried in fat. We had a pork schnitzel, though you can go exotic with veal as well. The tender pork with breaded meat is enjoyable, and the sweet cranberry sauce did a nice job for giving the protein another dimension of flavour. 

Overall, a nice dining experience here in both taste and seeing how the crew reacts to the customers! 

This is the front door of the restaurant. Somehow it is easy to miss the restaurant if you were not paying attention enough. 

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