Why you should visit SalzburgerLand this summer
Explore breathtaking Alpine scenery and experience a feast of music and culture on an unforgettable family holiday to one of Austria's most beautiful regions
Summer in SalzburgerLand is irresistible. Combine a city break in Salzburg with active fun in the mountains, lakes and rivers of one of Austria’s most beautiful regions.
You can catch some of the year’s cultural highlights in UNESCO-listed Salzburg, an enchanting melange of medieval, baroque and 19th-century architecture.
Festival fever
The Salzburg Festival is one of Europe’s finest, filling Mozart’s birthplace with classical music and drama over six weeks. Watch some of the dozens of performances that take place from 20 July to 31 August all over the city, including free outdoor events in Kapitelplatz.
Discover Salzburg’s historic heart with a visit to DomQuartier, where you get five attractions for the price of one. Dive into Salzburg’s history as you explore the lavish state rooms of former prince-archbishop Wolf Dietrich and the 2,000 exhibits spread around the complex.
Summertime festivals spring up all around SalzburgerLand, bringing music, theatre and art to lakesides and towns around the region. You’ll see what inspired The Sound of Music, which was set in Salzburg and the surrounding area.
Natural wonders
Follow the 350km of the Salzburger Almenweg – the Salzburg Alpine pastures trail – and discover a green landscape of lush pastures. You can refuel at an Alpine hut before carrying on with another one of the 31 hiking stages mapped out. The mountains turn into an adventure playground for children, helped by cable cars that run all summer long.
For two-wheeled thrills, cut loose among the 10,000km of cycling and mountain biking trails, and four bike parks. If you join the Tauern Cycle Trail, you can catch two of SalzburgerLand’s most impressive sights: the Krimml waterfalls and the world’s largest ice caves.If you’re on four wheels, wind your way along the hairpin turns of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road.
With 180 natural lakes – plus swimming lakes and outdoor pools – you’ll find plenty of places to cool off or enjoy stand-up paddleboarding. Fans of water sports should head to Lake Zell to rent sailboats and kiteboards to scoot across the water, or take things at a gentler pace in a canoe or kayak.
Get your adrenalin running on SalzburgerLand’s main rivers – the Saalach, Lammer and Salzach – as you go rafting and canyoning. The pure white waters in the rivers and streams all over the region also lend themselves to exciting hydrospeeding.
Head underground for a different side of SalzburgerLand – the Hallein Salt Mine burrowing into the Dürnberg plateau above Hallein.
Take a break
For true relaxation, indulge in a long soak in one of SalzburgerLand’s thermal baths and hot springs. Then treat yourself to a feast on the Via Culinaria, a series of nine pathways leading to hundreds of restaurants, Alpine huts, coffeehouses and other places to discover the best in Austrian cuisine.
Pick up a SalzburgerLand Card and you can take advantage of free admission to up to 190 museums, attractions, public transport and cable cars.
Visit austria.info/summer and salzburgerland.com to find out more about Austria’s SalzburgerLand