Salzburg and Austrian Alps hotels collection

On the Dürrnberg, Hallein keeps a salt mine still descended by long wooden slides, as the miners did. That salt built Salzburg, which bears its name: the prince-archbishops drew from it a cathedral with green domes, its front cut from the marble of the nearby Untersberg. Further on, in the Hohe Tauern, the Krimml Falls drop from ledge to ledge through the forest, and their spray wets the path that climbs beside them. Inside the mountain at Werfen, the ice cave is visited by carbide lamp, and now and then the guide burns a strip of magnesium.