Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
Tourist attraction in Austria
The historic center of the city of Salzburg, also known as the Altstadt, is a district of Salzburg, Austria, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. It corresponds to the historic city center on the left and right banks of the Salzach.
The World Heritage Site List describes it this way: "Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, which developed from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it was a city-state ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Before the city became better known through the work of Solari, Flamboyant Gothic art attracted many craftsmen and artists, to whom the center of Salzburg owes much of its Baroque appearance. This meeting place of northern and southern Europe. Perhaps Salzburg's most famous son, stimulated the talents of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose The name has been associated with the city ever since."
The listed area consists of a core zone of 236 hectares (580 acres), including the old town on both banks of the Salzach River and the Munchsberg, Festungsberg and Kapuzinerberg hills that surround the old town to the west and east. Outside the core zone there is a buffer zone of 467 hectares (1,150 acres) intended to protect the core zone affected by development visible in long-distance views.








