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Mozart's Birthplace is the house at Getreidegasse 9 where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756; his family lived on the third floor from 1747 to 1773. A museum since 1880, run by the Mozarteum Foundation, it shows his childhood violin, portraits, letters and early editions of his music.

DomQuartier Salzburg is a museum route opened in 2014 that links the Residenz, the cathedral and St Peter's Abbey around Cathedral Square. A circular tour leads through the prince-archbishops' state rooms, the Residenzgalerie paintings, the organ gallery above the cathedral nave, the Cathedral Museum and the St Peter's Museum.

The Mozart Residence on Makartplatz, also called the Tanzmeisterhaus, was the home of the Mozart family from 1773 to 1787; Wolfgang Amadeus lived here from the age of 17 to 25. Badly damaged by a bomb in 1944 and later rebuilt, it reopened in 1996 as a museum of the Mozarteum Foundation, with instruments, documents and family portraits.

St Peter's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in 696 by Saint Rupert, the oldest in the German-speaking area with an unbroken history. Visitors can enter the abbey church, given its Rococo interior in the 18th century, walk through St Peter's Cemetery and climb to the catacombs cut into the Mönchsberg cliff.

Hohensalzburg Fortress stands on the Festungsberg above Salzburg's old town, begun in 1077 under Archbishop Gebhard and enlarged by later prince-archbishops. About 250 metres long, it is reached on foot or by the FestungsBahn funicular; inside are the princely state rooms and several museums.

Mirabell Palace was built in 1606 for Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau and remodelled in the 1720s by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. It now houses the mayor's office of Salzburg; in front lie the formal Mirabell Gardens with flower beds, fountains, statues and a dwarf garden laid out around 1695.