Glockenspiel Salzburg

Mozartplatz 1, Salzburg , Salzburg, Austrian Alps, Austria
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    salzburg austria the sound of a 9 hour tour?

    ... to Munich at 6:30 and strolled through the fog to the Lowenbrau brewery. We had a wonderful schnitzel and a nightcap at the Glockenspiel café high above Marienplatz. I tried hard to enjoy my milchkaffe but I just don't like coffee. Jimmy enjoyed his Jim ...

  • 2

    Salzburg!

    ... where we started out walk.  We wandered on the Ricks Steves route in the book, that went past the church, the Glockenspiel, the Rediential place..then the graveyard, the University platz and the main shopping strip. By the time we had decided to ...

  • 3

    Beer, Gluhvein and Mist

    ... of meeting. We inadvertently ended up seeing Europe's second most over-rated and pointless tourist attraction, the Marionplatz Glockenspiel. This animatronic bell tower takes 15 minutes to complete... and would have been a lot more entertaining if Chuck ...

  • 4

    Music, Mining and Madness

    ... past St. Michael's Church to the Residenzplatz with the Old and New Residenz (on top of the Neue Residenz is the Glockenspiel which is adorned with an upside-down heart in flames surrounding the solar system to indicate God's love for everyone); next I ...

  • 5

    Salzburg Scare

    After going to see the famed (as well as highly overrated, I might add) Glockenspiel in Marienplatz (a large clock tower whose bells ring out in harmonious song while miniature people battle on horse and dancing around) we set out on the rails to ...

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    GRAVE LAWS IN A FAIRY TALE LAND

    31 photos

    ... commanding centerstage over the mobs of tourists that linger here everyday frequenting the shops and cafes and marveling over the glockenspiel clock on the tower.  The statue begs for a good scrubbing of all the grime that has been ...

  • 7

    Salzburg Anniversary

    10 photos

    ... (Makart, Romako) and cityscape pictures of Salzburg. As we went in to the museum we were lucky enough to hear the 11 am glockenspiel playing a pretty tune (it goes at 7am, 11am, 6pm). Apparently the tunes are by Haydn and Mozart, but we didn’t ...

  • 8

    The hills are alive with the sound of Music!!

    92 photos

    Elise and I met up in Salzburg, Austria for a short 26 hour trip!  She had to take a long overnight train from Paris and I got up early to meet her.  We met at the train station and headed to our hostel.  After missing a few turns we found ...

  • 9

    Derek is here!

    16 photos

    ... near the bluff, and the main street of Getreidegasse runs parallel to the river. After Mozartplatz was Residenzplatz, which had a glockenspiel that was supposed to play a tune three times a day. But it was under construction and wasn’t making any ...

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    moving on

    7 photos

    ... to see most things by just wandering about in the afternoon.  We timed to be in the square at 6pm as they have a glockenspiel clock which goes off twice a day, but after waiting for 10mins we discovered that it was under restoration, which properly ...