Must-SeeSalzburg
About 12 miles away
Mozart's baroque birthplace, and the setting of The Sound of Music.
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Salt Mine
A working salt mine since 1517, toured by train, wooden miners' slides and a raft across an underground lake.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid; book a time slot in summer
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Bergwerkstraße 83, 83471 BerchtesgadenDirections
- Getting There
- About 10 minutes on foot or by bus from the town center.
Why Go
Visitors put on miners' overalls and ride a little train deep into the mountain, then slide down polished wooden chutes between levels and float across a glowing salt lake. Exhibits explain how brine has been piped from here to salt works since the Middle Ages.
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