Sobre este lugar
Residenzplatz is the ceremonial heart of Salzburg's old town, a broad baroque square laid out around 1600 by Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich, who cleared away a whole medieval quarter to make room for it. On its western side stands the Alte Residenz, the sumptuous palace of the ruling prince archbishops, and facing it the arcaded Neue Residenz with its famous Glockenspiel. At the centre rises the Residenzbrunnen, carved from pale Untersberg marble and completed in 1661, often called the largest baroque fountain north of the Alps. For Sound of Music fans the square is sacred ground, the place where Maria pats the fountain horses during 'I Have Confidence'. Yet these same cobbles witnessed a Nazi book burning in 1938, and most Salzburgers hurry across them today without a thought for the film. That collision of sugary movie myth and real, uncomfortable history is Salzburg captured in a single square.
Datos clave
- 1661 year — The Residenzbrunnen fountain was completed in gleaming Untersberg marble
- 15 metres — Height of the fountain, among the largest baroque fountains north of the Alps
- 4 horses — Marble horses spout water at the base, one of them patted by Maria on screen