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Christkindlmarkt
This annual Christmas Market has its origins over seven centuries ago when Emperor Albrecht I, at the end of the 13th century, granted the privilege of organizing a Dezembermarkt. The Market now attracts 3 million visitors each year, more then 500.000 from abroad.
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Church of St Erhard
The Erhardkirche is the Parish church of the Nonntal district of Salzburg and the present Baroque building was constructed between 1685 and 1689 by Giovanni Gaspare Zuccalli under the orders of Prince Archbishop Max Gandolf. There had been a chapel and leper hospital on this site since the 13th century.
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Church of St Marcus
The Markuskirche stands on the site of the former Ursuline Church which was destroyed on the 16th of July 1669 by a rock fall from the Mönchsberg Mountain, a terrible disaster which killed 220 people.
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Church of St Sebastian
The late Gothic Sebastiankirche was built between 1505 and 1512. A fire in the early 19th century destroyed much of the interior and few of the earlier features survive. A painting of the Madonna by Hans Waldenburger (1600) adorns the altar.
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Church of St. Catejan
This church is named after St. Cajetan, the patron saint of the unemployed and founder of the Theatine Order who were the trainers of priests.
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Church of St. Catherine
The Gothic parish church of St. Catherine, with its conspicuous Baroque tower by Johann Michael Prunner, stands at the southern end of the Hauptplatz.
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Church of St. Florian
The beautiful Baroque Floriankirche, named after one of Austria’s favourite saints, was consecrated in 1704. The building was authorised by Archbishop Paris Lodron in response to a request, made some years earlier, by the local metalworkers who had no place of worship nearer than the town of Thalgau.
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Church of St. Nicholas
The 15th century Sankt Nikolaus Kirche, almost unchanged since it was built, is the oldest historic building in the Gastein Valley.
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Church of St. Vincent
The resort of Heiligenblud takes its name from a phial of the blood of Christ brought here from Constantinople in the 10th century which is preserved on the Gothic parish Church of St. Vincent which dates from 1490. The church has a number of notable features; a 10.
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Church of the Minorites
Having had its top knocked off during the Turkish siege of 1529, the Minoritenkirche’s stunted octagonal tower is a landmark of the Innere Stadt. Completed in the early 14th century it was transformed to Baroque architecture, finally returning to simple Gothic styling in 1784 on the orders of Ferdinand von Hohenberg.
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