初到萨尔茨堡 (Arrival in Salzburg)

A musical translation awaits inline below …

7月24日星期二

早上去车库取车，停了三天晚上，只花了10.20欧元，非常便宜的停车库。开车回到民宿，装好行李，向萨尔茨堡出发。中途在梅尔克小镇停留吃了午饭，这个小镇最有名的就是成立于1089年的梅尔克修道院，现在这座建筑的巴洛克风格是修建于1702年到1736年。在这里遇到了大批的中国游客。

Tuesday, July 24

We went to the garage in Vienna to pick up our car in the morning – parking for three days was only 10.20 euros – a very cheap parking garage. We drove back to the apartment to load up the luggage and departed for Salzburg. Halfway through the drive we came across the town of Melk and decided to stop for lunch. The town is best known for the Melk Abbey, founded in 1089. This Baroque style building was built between 1702 and 1736. For some reason, there is also a large number of Chinese tourists here.

snapseed-803 — 坐落在山岩上的修道院和山脚下的小镇 . a monastery located on a rock and the small town at the foot of the mountain

snapseed-805 — 修道院内，因为我俩还要开车继续前行，我俩并没有进修道院里面游览。We visited the monastery but because we want to get to Salzburg we didn’t tour the inside.

加上中途的停留，一共花了大概5个小时，我俩终于到了萨尔茨堡的民宿。民宿的主人很热情地带我俩去了地下停车库，并简单地介绍了一下民宿住处和几个萨尔茨堡的旅游景点。

萨尔茨堡位于奥地利的西部，是奥地利的第四大城市；地处阿尔卑斯山北麓，属于一座山城，市内有多座原始的山丘，包括要塞山（Festungsberg）、蒙西斯山（Mönchsberg）等。所以我俩还在高速上没进城市的时候，就看到连绵的高山，进了市区以后，绿绿的青山也就在眼前，衬托着城市的建筑，使萨尔茨堡显得很特别。萨尔茨堡的历史很悠久，在新石器时代就有人居住，萨尔茨堡的德语名字是Salzburg，意思是“盐堡”，所以这里因附近的盐矿和城堡而得名，萨尔茨堡主教的经济繁荣也是来源于垄断盐的销售。这里也是音乐天才莫扎特的出生地，电影“音乐之声”的拍摄地点，萨尔茨堡老城在1996年被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名录。

我来之前从来没听说过这个地方，吃完晚饭，去老城区散步的时候，看到山上的古堡，流淌在山脚下的萨尔茨河，以及坐落在山脚下的巴洛克式大教堂和遍布城区的巴洛克建筑，在晚霞的照映下，构成了一副很优美的画卷。

Together with the stopover for lunch, it took about 5 hours before we finally arrived at our apartment in Salzburg. The owner of this AirBnB was very enthusiastic to give us a full tour of the place and gave us several recommendations for tourist attractions.

Located in the western part of Austria, Salzburg is the fourth largest city in Austria. It is located in the northern foothills of the Alps and situated next to large mountains, including the Festungsberg and the Mönchsberg. Just outside of the city you are surrounded by towering mountains. Our apartment sits next to green hills which along with the old city’s architecture, makes Salzburg a special place. Salzburg has a long history and has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. Salzburg’s German name means, “salt castle”, named after the nearby salt mines and castle. In old times, the economic prosperity of the city was derived from the sale of salt. It is also the birthplace of the musical prodigy Mozart; the location of the film, “The Sound of Music”, and the town was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

Personally, I had never heard of this place before coming here. When we went for a walk in the old town, we saw the castle on the hill, the Salz River and the Baroque cathedral at the foot of the mountain. The Baroque buildings all over the city form a beautiful picture under the illumination of the evening sunset.