Salzburg
has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over
the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it was a city-state
ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its Flamboyant Gothic art attracted many
craftsmen and artists before the city became even better known through the work
of the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the
centre of Salzburg owes much of its Baroque appearance. This meeting-point of
northern and southern Europe perhaps sparked the genius of Salzburg’s most
famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name has been associated with the
city ever since.
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