Salzburg

Salzburg's old town, on the south bank of the river, is a Baroque masterpiece of churches, plazas, courtyards and fountains, oozing so much charm that it's enough to make you forgive the Mozart obsession. Museums, houses, squares, chocolate bars, liqueurs - all are pressed into Wolfgang hommage.

The Salzburg that everyone knows and loves was largely built by three bishop-princes in the late-16th and early-17th century, which is what gives the city its Italian flavour and its skyline punctuated by countless medieval spires, domes, belfries and turrets.