Salzburg is quite conveniently located in Mid-Europe, between Vienna and Munich, in the North of the Alps and was added to Unesco's World Heritage List in 1996.

"Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric developed between the Middle Ages and the 19th century, while it was a city-state ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its striking Gothic art drew many craftsmen and artists before it became even better known through the work of the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the centre of Salzburg owes much of its baroque appearance. This meeting point of northern and southern Europe perhaps sparked the genius of Salzburg's most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose universal renown has shone on the city ever since." (http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/salzburg.html)

This page contains infos about:

• Workshop Location
• Travel
• Accommodation
• Tourist Information

Workshop Location

The workshop will be held at the new campus of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. The campus is located in Puch/Urstein some km south of the city of Salzburg and is well connected by public transport.

Fachhochschule Salzburg GmbH
(Salzburg University of Applied Sciences)

Urstein Süd 1
A-5412 Puch/Salzburg
Tel.: +43-50-2211-0

Map:

Travel

Getting to Salzburg

By plane: There are several possibilities to fly to Salzburg.

• You can fly directly to
Salzburg International Airport "WA Mozart": The offer of scheduled flights from/to Salzburg comprises nonstop connections to Amsterdam, Berlin, Birmingham, Coventry, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Köln, Linz, London, Maribor, Palma/Mallorca, Nürnberg, Paris, St.Petersburg, Vienna, Zürich. All flights here.
• You can fly to Munich Airport and:
• take a train to Salzburg (2-3 hours incl. airport transfer, around EUR 30).
• take a shuttle bus of Lufthansa or the shuttle service "SMS".
• You can fly to Vienna Airport and take a train to Salzburg (about 4 hours incl. airport transfer, airport transfer by bus EUR 6. train ticket Vienna-Salzburg EUR 40, 1st class is EUR 62).

By train

By car

Getting around in Salzburg

• Airport from/to Main train station (20min): Obus 2
• Main train station from/to Workshop Location (18min): S-Bahn S3 direction "Schwarzach-St.Veit" or "Golling-Abtenau", train station "Puch bei Hallein Urstein" (see local map above)
  
• Further connections can be found at the stadtbus.at website: City bus plan in German, leaflet in English

Taxis are available at phone numbers are +43 (0)662 8111, or +43 (0)662 1715. All taxis are equipped with taximeters, which are always used.

Accommodation

To get the special rates at one of the following hotels please mention to be a participant of a Salzburg Research meeting at the reservation. These hotels are next to the main train station (Salzburg Hauptbahnhof), having a good connection to the workshop location (approx. 18min, trains every 30min).

Further hotels can be found online, e.g. http://www.salzburginfo.at/hotels_217.htm, http://www.hotels.com, http://www.nethotels.com

Tourist Information

General

• Online Phone Book http://www.herold.at
  
• Banking hours: 8.30 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 17.00 Monday-Friday.
• Shopping hours can vary:
  Boutiques are mostly open from 9.00 - 18.00 Monday-Friday, 9.00 - 17:00 Saturday.
  Supermarkets are mostly open from 8.00 - 19.00 Monday-Friday, 8.00 - 17.00 Saturday.
  Shops are closed on Sunday, with some exceptions like souvenir shops.
  Most shops accept credit cards.
• Exchange rate: 1 US$ approx. 0.80€ (Currency Converter by OANDA.com, The Currency Site)

Touristic Highlights

• Mozart's birthplace
  Popular Mozart museum featuring the usual memorabilia alongside Mozart's first violin. Don't forget to buy your Mozart ball chocolates! Admission: EUR 5.10, students EUR 4. Open: Jul-Aug 9am-6.30pm daily, Sep-Jun 9am-5.30pm daily. Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg.
• Mozart's residence
  The house where Mozart spent seven years of his life contains another popular Mozart museum. Admission: EUR 4.75, students EUR 3.65. Open: Sep-Jun 9am-6pm daily, Jul-Aug 9am-7pm daily. Makartplatz 8, Salzburg.
• Schloss Mirabell
  This palace was built in 1606 by prince-archbishop Wolf Dietrich and includes the gardens which featured in The Sound of Music. Located inside Mirabellgarten.
• Hohensalzburg Fortress
  This castle is one of the highlights of the city and offers excellent views of the city. The castle features a tower, torture chambers and impressive state rooms. If you take the guided tour you get to see parts of the castle which are out of bounds to other visitors. Admission: EUR 6.35 including return funicular fare, EUR 3.60 entrance only, EUR 7.15 entrance to fortress, castle and museum. Open mid-Mar to mid-Jun 9.30am-5.30pm, mid-Jun to mid-Sep 9.30am-5pm, mid-Sep to mid-Mar 9am-5pm. Mönchsberg 34, Salzburg. Access via Festungbahn funicular.
• St Peter's Abbey
  This ornate church, dating from 846, features fascinating examples of Baroque art in addition to a beautiful organ and catacombes. Admission EUR 0.90. Open: May-Sep 10am-5pm daily, Oct-Apr 10.30am-3.30pm daily. Franziskanergasse.
• Sound of Music
  Many of Salzburg's sights may already be familiar to fans of the 1965 movie, The Sound of Music. This popular film was set amongst many of Salzburg's most beautiful attractions and many visitors to Salzburg make point of visiting many of the places which appeared in the film.
• Skiing:
  Major Skiing resorts are reachable from Salzburg in about 1 hour by car, bus or train.
  

Some links for touristic information:

http://www.bugeurope.com/salzburg/sights.html
http://www.salzburg.info
http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/