Day 3: Medieval Salzburg

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History 190 Mozarts World Spring Semester
2005 Professor James Melton Overseas Component
March 12-19 Tentative Schedule
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Day 1 (Sunday, March 13)
Flight from Atlanta to Munich, arrival by train
in Salzburg on Sunday evening. Students will be
accommodated at Haus Ballwein, a family-run guest
house. It is located on the outskirts of
Salzburg at the foot of the Untersberg, the most
prominent of the mountains surrounding the city.
Breakfast is included.

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Day 2 (March 14) Medieval Salzburg
Students will spend the day touring Salzburg
Castle (above left), which dates from Roman
times but was chiefly erected in the 11th
century, and Nonnberg Abbey (above right).
Nonnberg, founded in the eighth century, is a
Benedictine abbey and is the oldest convent
north of the Alps.
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Day 3 (March 15) Renaissance Salzburg
Students will be led on excursions to two
Renaissance palaces dating from the late
sixteenth century. Hellbrunn (above left) was
built as a summer residence on the
citys Outskirts. From there we will hike to the
archbishops open-air theater built in 1600.
The amphitheater was carved out of stone was the
first operatic performance north of the Alps.
In the afternoon we will tour the museum and
gardens of Mirabell Palace (right), built by
Archbishop Wolf Dietrich for his mistress Salome
Alt. In the evening we will attend a concert
in the hall in the Palace, where Mozart often
performed.
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Day 4 (March 16) Bus Excursion to Bavaria
Salzburgs proximity to the Bavarian border (less
than ten kilometers) offers an excellent
opportunity to tour the breathtaking alpine
landscape of the Berchtesgaden region. Tour buses
leave regularly from Salzburg. Students will
also see the darker side of the regions history
with a visit to the Obersalzburg Documentation
Center (above right), established by the
Institute for Contemporary History at the
University of Munich and located on the former
site of Hitlers alpine villa. The Center
contains an excellent museum that chronicles the
crimes of the Nazi regime.
Berchtesgaden
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Day 5 (March 17) Mozart in Salzburg
Salzburg Cathedral
Mozarts Birthplace
Evening concert
Residenzplatz
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Days 6-7 (March 18-19)
The final evening will be reserved for a musical
performance, with the group departing by train
the following day for to Munich where we will
catch our flight back to Atlanta.