Egg
Decorative Easter eggs in Salzburg, 2015 Wishing you all a great Easter weekend! Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your […]
Countries ending and starting with A
Vienna skyline, 2015 A week or two ago, Cee gave us a challenge of a country ending with K. What a great topic – and it gave me a need […]
How many hooves does a horse have?
Eight! Schloss Hellbrunn, Salzburg, May 2018 Apparently, pleasure palaces were all the rage in the early seventeenth century, and Archbishop Markus Sittikus helped set that trend. He became Prince-Archbishop of […]
A man with a view
The man perched on top of the giant golden ball, in his plain white shirt and dark trousers, looks brave, or maybe foolish. But no panic required: he is a […]
Musical graces in Salzburg
These musicians are the work of Austrian sculptor, Max Rieder (1909-2000). Born in Salzburg, he studied and worked in Vienna, Turkey and Germany, returning to Salzburg. There are several pieces […]
The Archbishop’s very own water park
The title here is no joke – Prince-Archbishop Marcus Sittikus, the first owner of Salzburg’s Hellbrunn Palace, ensured that his guests would be spoiled with watery surprises galore. Water parks […]
Music in a spiral
– Copyright Debbie Smyth, 4 August 2018 Posted as part of Photo a Week
Dwarf
The Zwerglgarten, “Dwarf Garden”, in Salzburg’s Mirabell Gardens was introduced by Prince Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach in the early eighteenth century. Many of these characters were modelled on dwarves who […]
Salzburg mural
Well-known in Salzburg are Jana & JS, Jana Balluch and Jean-Sébastien Philippe, an Austrian-French couple who excel in detailed stencil street art. Their works often feature people blended with existing […]
Wandering around the park at Hellbrunn
Yesterday you may have seen a peek of the Hellbrunn gardens when I shared a view of the gazebo from the Sound of Music film. But there’s a lot more […]
Two famous Austrian faces
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 10 June 2018 Enjoying street art has become a regular event on my travels around the world: more of my findings can be seen here […]
Travel with Intent 