Getreidegasse

As long as anyone can recall, the tall, narrow and tightly pressed together houses, with their magnificently ornamented wrought iron guild signs, have imbued Salzburg's Getreidegasse with a very special charm.

Tourists know the Getreidegasse for one main reason: house No. 9 - Mozart's birthplace. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born here and spent his first years of life in this house, which now stands next to Mirakel's Wax Museum.

The modern wax museum gives you a unique opportunity to get to know the Getreidegasse, not merely as it appears today.

Immerse yourself in the most famous shopping street of Mozart's time: experience how artisans once lived and worked in the Getreidegasse.

There is the wax chandler next to the Hagenauertor, for example, and the bakery from which the "residents" of the Salzburg wax museum have placed a big order for bread.

Also on display: the wax figure of a dentist of those days. See how he treated his 18th-century patients.