Renaissance Salzburg

... can subscribe (or unsubscribe) at any time in upper section of the left column on the page. Resources: Where we stayed: Renaissance Hotel. The staff here was incredibly nice and understanding given that we were never sure if we were staying on ...

...  Disney or something, not a museum.  The rest of the museum was dedicated to medieval and renaissance history.  They had a room of torture instruments, a couple of rooms dedicated to armour and weapons and ...

... was a few miles away so we hopped on the bus and it took us to Hellbrunn.  Hellbrunn is a palace of the late Renaissance built for the pleasure of Archbishop Markus Sittikus.  It's a beautiful yellow palace that isn't very big but the gardens ...

... half this level of detail and decoration, although I guess Australia hasn’t had the luxury of masters from the Baroque, Renaissance and Classical eras to paint deck out their walls and ceilings! From here, we found a pretty graveyard in the grounds ...

... to see a cathedral only accessible by water, or by hiking along paths. During the voyage, caves could be seen which neanderthals had apparently lived in. The church itself was small but overflowed with paintings and designs of a renaissance ...

... Mozart balls, but from what I've read before, they are chipper to buy in the airport. Salzburg has an extraordinary mixture of Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance. It is no surprise that its unique atmosphere has produced such musical genius like Mozart. ...

... with founatins and rose bushes. We went back to room to shower and rest. That night we went to the old section of Salzburg.  We went to a biergarten and had schneitzel, goulash and pretzels.  We walked around the streets, looked into the stores, ...

... amazing cathedral and getting a great fish sandwich. After a few hours we decide we should leave for Vienna (where we will be staying the night). Five days later we will return to Salzburg to recoup for the night before heading to Munich for ...

... First four visiting organists took us on a short music history journey: a fantasia by Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) on the Renaissance organ; a ciacona by Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693) on the southeast Pirchner organ; a sonata by Anselmo Viola ...

... player.  Because Bob Ross was celebrating his birthday, they even sang happy birthday to him!  It's now the end of the day and time to head off to bed for our start tomorrow to Salzburg.  Good night all......more to follow ...

... Czech Republic Goodbye Austria, hello Czech Republic! Discover an ancient land where misty mountains and green forests frame Renaissance, Gothic and Baroque architectural treasures unlike anywhere else in the modern world. Cesky Krumlov Learn from a ...

... key role in the history of northern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. Work began on the construction of this outstanding Renaissance castle in 1574, and its defences were reinforced according to the canons of the period's military architecture in the ...

... seat and have our iced coffees and cake. from there we went out for a glass of wine and actually ran into another renaissance festival, this one for adults.. what is it with budapest- home of the renaissance festival and weird statues. we started making ...

... as the town’s fortification, a dungeon, and treasury vault. Later on in the 17th century, it was adorned with 111 Renaissance paintings individually designed in keeping with the progression of the city of Luzern. Then in 1993, a fire burnt half of ...

... have parked there last night instead of paying for facilities we did not really need!! Telc has a beautiful main square full of renaissance buildings built in 1589 and apparently things really have not changed since then! We tried to get some lunch at a ...

... is time's magpie surviving the bombs and the burnings-the beautiful mosaic sidewalks which led to beautiful barogue and Renaissance houses and gothic towers-Prague has stockpiled ten centuries of history.Then you see the graffiti-spray paint spreading ...

... so Milan was not the place for me. Vicenzia was a city we stopped where we were introduced to the architecture of a renaissance architect named Paladio. He was the man and designed just about every major building in the town. I liked Venice ...

... so Milan was not the place for me. Vicenzia was a city we stopped where we were introduced to the architecture of a renaissance architect named Paladio. He was the man and designed just about every major building in the town. I liked Venice ...

... take time to acquaint ourselves with two of northern Italy's most celebrated geniuses. The architect Palladio and the early renaissance artist, Giotto. The Palladian villa format can be seen in Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. This morning we tour ...