The gallery has an outstanding roster of 20th- and 21st-century art exhibitions. You can race up here in the lift or take your time and walk from Festung Hohensalzburg. If contemporary art rocks your boat, you’ll be in your element at the Museum der Moderne, a strikingly minimalist oblong built from locally quarried Untersberg marble and plonked ceremoniously on top of the hill. Strike out on foot along trails weaving through meadows and woodland to Augustiner Bräustübl and you’ll see all the way to the Austrian and Bavarian Alps on cloudless days. And the views? Well, they’re pretty heavenly, too, framing the fortress-topped Altstadt. With wooded cliffs rising above Salzburg like a theater curtain, 504m Mönchsberg (Monk Mountain) is named after the Benedictine monks of St Peter's Abbey. Tours run from April to October – get in quick in summer as they are crazily popular. Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, So Long, Farewell – all the classics are in the mix on this half-day bike tour that rolls from palace to plaza, park to abbey. Sing along to The Sound of MusicĬome on, you know you want to… You don’t have to be a die-hard fan of The Sound of Music or be able to hit the octave-leaping high notes like Julie Andrews to want to hop on a bike and belt out a few songs pedaling between film locations with Fräulein Maria’s Bicycle Tours. You’ll find fewer tourists and a more authentic vibe here than at other beer halls in the Altstadt. Beers swing from mildly hoppy lagers to amber-hued wheat beers. Fill your tankard at the foyer pump and visit the Schmankerlgang (deli stands) for hearty, beer-swigging grub like Stelzen (ham hock), pork belly and pretzels as big as your head.
With its vaulted taverns and vast 1400-seat beer garden set up under the shade of chestnut trees, this monk-founded brewery at the foot of Mönchsberg has given Salzburger rollicking good times since 1621.
It’s Oktoberfest 365 days a year at the Augustiner Bräustübl, an offshoot of the Munich-run brewery that is Germany’s oldest, dating to 1328. Round out your walk with a romp around the ramparts, lavish staterooms and museums at the 900-year-old clifftop fortress. Walking up here, far above the hum of the city and toll of church bells is really quite something. Short but spectacular, the walk from Nonnberg to Festung Hohensalzburg along the Hohe Weg (Festungsgasse) lifts spirits instantly and gives a great overview of the city, with dress-circle views over the rooftops, spires and domes of the baroque Altstadt to the forested mountains beyond. Salzburg skyline with the Festung Hohensalzburg in the dusk light © NavinTar / Shutterstock See the city from on high
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