Salzburg Castle (Feste Hohensalzburg)

Salzburg Castle has two features of interest to the garden historian:

gun terraces which could have been used for domestic purposes in peacetime (like the bulwarks which are the etymological, and functional, origin of the English word 'boulevard'
an internal courtyard providing shelter from those who had to leave on an exposed hilltop for reasons of security

Photograph © drobnikm

Address Mönchsberg 34, Salzburg, Austria, 5020

Opening times All year. Daily.