The morning was warm and sunny, just for hiking. And I had grandiose plans for the day. I wanted to see what was not enough time the day before.
Once again admiring the Mirabell garden, I again turned my feet to the Old City. The weather is beautiful, the sky is blue, even the waters of the Salzach river have found colors. Every little thing was pleasing, even the locks on the bridge. This tradition has long become fashionable. I saw something like this in Paris and even here in Novosibirsk.
In the morning light, the city looked even brighter, more elegant and all the more attractive.
Hohensalzburg Fortress is a favorite tourist motive with a camera and a place where I would definitely like to visit.
On the way to the funicular stopped at the fountain. It is interesting because in its waters they once washed ... the hooves of horses, so as not to pollute the square in front of the holy place and at the residence of the archbishop, insulting the eyes of bright eyes.
Horse-drawn fiacra still "parks" in the Residence Square.
The ball, dazzling in the rays of the sun, really seemed "golden." It can be considered a landmark leading to the ski lift, plying up and down with tourists.
I bought a ticket and got up with another group of curious people on the fortress walls. The panorama from above opens amazing, Salzburg at a glance, and silence. The sensations are indescribable!
Nearby, the massive walls of the fortress seemed even more powerful, and the towers taller.
According to historians, in 1077 there was a wooden castle in the Romanesque style at this place. By 1500, the fortress acquired its current form. In the XV-XVI centuries, when wars and popular uprisings shook the state, it was the residence of the archbishops. The impregnable fortress during its entire existence survived only one siege - in 1525, but the rebels did not manage to break through its walls.
From 1861 to 1938, the castle walls were used as barracks or prison. Repeated perestroika and expansion turned Hohensalzburg into the largest of the completely preserved fortresses of Central Europe. Beyond the walls of the fortress there is almost an entire medieval city with a princely palace, with residential and household buildings, with an arsenal and the Church of Georgskirche.
The arrows on the walls lead to the Fortress Museum (where, nevertheless, several photographs were taken).
The XI century arched doorway in the Romanesque style, like other historical values, was discovered during technical and restoration work in 1999.
In the halls of the museum are presented weapons and instruments of torture (mores were those), iron masks and locks, dishes and household utensils.
Today it is only walls behind which it is quiet and calm, and in former times life was in full swing there, not to mention passions and unrest outside the fortress.
Here is the well from the time of Archbishop M. Lang, next to which today is a bar.
Walking along the courtyards and tiers of the fortress, you never get tired of admiring the picturesque views of the surroundings. The spectacle is truly impressive.
The fortress, as a structure, lost its defensive significance in 1861 under the Kaiser Franz Josef, and access to it was open to all comers. The year 1867 marked the beginning of tourism in Salzburg, and the construction of the funicular in 1892 facilitated the rise and made the Hohensalzburg Fortress one of the most visited places by tourists.