Salzburg is famous for Mozart (you can visit the house of his birth and another he lived in later), the Sound of Music (there are umpteen different tours to take based on the movie), castles, palaces and mountains. But we spent a day visiting breweries. And why not? We have mountains and castles galore in Slovenia but very few breweries, whereas Salzburg has more breweries than you could (easily) shake a stick at (in a single day). Stiegl is the biggest of the breweries and is a major commercial enterprise with its beers being sold all over Austria whereas the other breweries tend to be ...
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