We made an early start this morning so arrived in Salzburg at 1.30pm. On our travels to date our fellow campers have been mainly Dutch or German but this is a more multi-European site with a more even mix of nationalities including Italians and Spanish but still only one other British family. It’s the most expensive site we stayed in so far and it’s hard to see why. It’s nothing to write home about (but I am anyway) and it’s a good 30% more expensive.
The great thing about arriving early is that we could head straight into Salzburg city to see the sights. It’s another lovely city and there’s a lot to see and do. There are some wonderful buildings and sculptures too so we took masses of photographs, only a few of which, you’ll be glad to know, are copied below.
When we were in the main square (the Residenzplatz) we noticed lots of people in purple tee shirts gathering and assumed they were on a tour. We carried on taking in the sights and taking photographs when they all moved together around the fountain in one mass and started chanting and letting off coloured smoke bombs. It was really quite scary and seemed like it was a protest about something. Roland started videoing but stopped when one of the protesters broke away from the group and started ranting aggressively at another photographer so we backed off. They had Curva Viola on their banners so we looked this up and it seems they were fans of one of the two Salzburg football teams and today was a local derby game. This is one of the photos we took so you can get some idea of what we found ourselves in the middle of. They have more on their site http://curva-viola.at/2016/08/27/7-runde-sak-1914-a/
Curva Viola’s pre match gathering
On to more pleasant sight seeing in Salzburg:
Mozart’s birthplace (now a Spar minimart – things ain’t what they used to be)
Festung Hohensalzburg - clifftop fortress c1077 Fountain in Residenzplatz
Horse-drawn carriages and weird looking tourist spotted in Residenzplatz
The Catacombs
The Cloak of Conscience by Anna Chromy 9m high art project sculpture by Stephen Balkenhal
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