Districts

Salzburg has twenty-four urban districts and three extra-urban populations.
Urban districts (Stadtteile):

• Aigen
• Altstadt
• Elisabeth-Vorstadt
• Gneis
• Gneis-Süd
• Gnigl
• Itzling
• Itzling-Nord
• Kasern
• Langwied
• Lehen
• Leopoldskron-Moos
• Liefering
• Maxglan
• Maxglan-West
• Morzg
• Mülln
• Neustadt
• Nonntal
• Parsch
• Riedenburg
• Salzburg-Süd
• Taxham
• Schallmoos

Extra-urban populations (Landschaftsräume):

• Gaisberg
• Hellbrunn
• Heuberg

Main sights

Gardens in Mirabell Palace, with Salzburg fortress in the distance

The famous fountain in Mirabell Gardens (seen in the "Do-Re-Mi" song from The Sound of Music)

View of shoppers on Getreidegasse, which is one of the oldest streets in Salzburg

The Sunset at the Staatsbrücke

Salzburg is a tourist favorite, with the number of tourists outnumbering locals by a large margin in peak times. In addition to Mozart's birthplace noted above, other notable places include:
Old Town

• Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, declared a World Heritage Site in 1996
• Baroque architecture, including many churches
• Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom)
• Hohensalzburg Castle (Festung Hohensalzburg), overlooking the Old Town, is one of the largest castles in Europe
• Franciscan Church (Franziskanerkirche)
• St Peter's Abbey with the Petersfriedhof
• Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery
• Salzburg Residenz, the magnificent former residence of the Prince-Archbishops
• Residenzgalerie, an art museum in the Salzburg Residenz
• Mozart's Birthplace
• Mozart's Residence
• University Church
• Siegmundstor (or Neutor)
• Getreidegasse
• Sphaera, a sculpture of a man on a golden sphere (Stephan Balkenhol, 2007)

Outside the Old Town

• Mirabell Palace, with its wide gardens full of flowers
• St. Sebastian's cemetery (Sebastiansfriedhof)
• Schloss Leopoldskron, a rococo palace and national historic monument in Leopoldskron-Moos, a southern district of Salzburg
• Hellbrunn with its parks and castles
• The Sound of Music tour companies who operate tours of film locations
• Hangar-7, a multifunctional building owned by Red Bull, with a collection of historical airplanes, helicopters and Formula One racing cars

Greater Salzburg area

• Anif Castle, located south of the city in Anif
• Shrine of Our Lady of Maria Plain, a late Baroque church on the northern edge of Salzburg
• Salzburger Freilichtmuseum Großgmain, an open-air museum containing old farmhouses from all over the state assembled in an historic setting
• Schloss Klessheim, a palace and casino, formerly used by Adolf Hitler
• Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden
• Kehlsteinhaus, the only remnant of Hitler's Berghof
• Salzkammergut, an area of lakes east of the city
• Untersberg mountain, next to the city on the Germany-Austria border, with panoramic views of Salzburg and the surrounding Alps
• Skiing is an attraction during winter. Salzburg itself has no skiing facilities, but it acts as a gateway to skiing areas to the south. During the winter months its airport receives charter flights from around Europe.
• Salzburg Zoo, located south of the city in Anif