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Salzburg
2007.03.03
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[1] From outside the Hallein - Bad Dürrnberg salt mine. The gloomy weather suits this photo, don't you think? This and many others thanks to MD. I wish I'd gotten a camera with wide angle capabilities.
[2] On the train thing into the mine. Good shot, Anesia!
[3] 'Squeezing' through a tunnel. Some opted for the alternative route through another (very wide) tunnel. The mines were opened centuries ago, and the mountains are still growing, so, according to the guide, the tunnels are shrinking by one centimetre every year.
[4] Heigh-ho, heigh-ho... No gold, though.
[5] 18% of the mine is in present-day German territory.
[6] 'Salt was very valuable because it is a wonderful preservative....' So when industrial accidents occur in a salt mine...
[7] Salt veins.
[8] This (and others like it) is what I came here for. Among others.
[9] The obligatory cathedral.
[10] The Hohensalzburg fortress was impregnable.
[11] The cable railway as it is now. In olden times it was operated using pulleys and the like, using original horse power. Hah.
[12-16] This, then, is what the inside of a fortress looks like...
[17] Enriched by proceeds from the salt mines, the archbishops lived in cloying opulence.
[18,19] From the top.
[20] The original Mozartkugel from the Fürst café [kugel=ball].
