Private Tour: Salzburg City Highlights Tour

After morning or afternoon pickup from your Salzburg hotel, travel by Mercedes-Benz E-Class (up to three people) or minivan (up to eight people) on your highlights tour of Salzburg. Being on a private tour makes for a more relaxed, flexible sightseeing experience and guarantees more attention from your city guide, who will share facts and stories about Salzburg's long and tumultuous history and cultural importance.

Pass Mirabell Palace, the city seat of government, and its gorgeous gardens, which were featured in the beloved film The Sound of Music. Continue to Old Town (Alstadt) and see the two festival halls that draw thousands of opera fans during the annual summer Salzburg Festival. Admire St Peter's Abbey, a Benedectine monastery dating back to the year 696, and Salzburg Cathedral, a stately Baroque cathedral where composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptized.

Next, marvel at three magnificent palaces -- Frohnburg Palace, Hellbrunn Palace and Schloss Leopoldskron -- all of which are connected to scenes from The Sound of Music. Make sure to also capture photos of Nonnberg Abbey, the majestic abbey where Maria Augusta Kutschera -- whose life story The Sound of Music was based on -- was a postulant. On your way back to your hotel, pass the Mozart Residence (Mozart Wohnhaus), where the legendary composer wrote many of his masterpieces.

Feel free to ask your guide to adjust this itinerary to suit your preferences. At the conclusion of your 2-hour private tour of Salzburg, you'll have seen many of the city's don't-miss sights and have a better idea of where you'd like to spend more time.