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CITY GUIDE SALZBURG
(museumdermoderne.at). A lift dropping down through the mountain takes you back to the old town. If winter wonderland is what you’ve come for, take the cable car (untersbergbahn.at) up to the top of Untersberg, the mountain that looms over the city.
Eat
The flashiest place to dine is inside Red Bull’s Hangar-7 (hangar-7.com) at the airport. Here, amid planes and Formula One cars, a different top chef from around the world is imported every month to experiment with their own cuisine. Expect to pay from €195 for a tasting menu. Much more traditional is the wood-beamed Gasthof Goldgasse (gasthofgoldgasse.at), where several dishes — including the signature fried chicken in a copper pot — are based on an 18th-century cookbook. Mains cost about €21.
Humboldt Stubn (humboldtstubn.at), meanwhile, does traditional dishes such as schnitzels, tafelspitz and goulash with modern sentiments. There’s a strong emphasis on organic, locally-sourced produce. Mains cost about €15. For pre-dinner drinks, well-hidden Little Grain at Getreidegasse 34 has knowledgeable cocktail barmen whipping up concoctions based on your personal tastes in a vaulted underground cave.
Stay
The initial appeal of historic, family-run Altstadthotel Kasererbräu (kasererbraeu.at) is location: it’s one of few hotels in the old town. But it is also gloriously full of character, with idiosyncratic decoration and old photographs thrown at every available space, and one of the oldest cinemas in the world tucked away on the premises. Rooms are simple but solid, costing from €80.
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