Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg

World Heritage

Austria

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Salzburg has preserved an extremely rich urban structure that developed between the Middle Ages and the 19th century when it was a city-state ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its flamboyant Gothic art attracted many craftsmen and artists, and the city later became even more famous for the work of Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the Baroque style of Salzburg's city center is largely attributed. This meeting point of northern and southern Europe perhaps inspired the talent of Salzburg's most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name has been associated with the city ever since.

# Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart