Salzburg City of Culture by Hubert Nowak

 Salzburg City of Culture by Hubert Nowak

is a new book published by Haus Publishing. If you want to immerse yourself in a virtual trip in words there is nothing better than a title of this publishing house. Literature is mixed with culture and trip and the final product is amazing all the times!

That Salzburg is a special city, is a fact. 

Birthplace of Mozart, his genius started to be recognized only decades after his departure at just 37 years; the city appears sometimes a bit distracted, and its metabolism for "digesting" situations and people is not the quickest ones; Salzburg admits the geniality of people with calm, without rush, with that signorility that doesn't want to ruin anything.

Other people not forgotten but for sure not too mentioned are Zweig but also the Trapp family, that became famous thanks to the movie with Julie Christie, The Sound of Music.

The city was completely uninterested to the movie, and snobbed it with great class; and, if tons of people visited Salzburg for trying to find traces of the places visited by the actors while they were filming the movie, Salzburgers remained cold. 

Yes, the Salzburgers are people of culture. For being considered a real Salzburger the family of the person should have spent more than three generations in the city; in case, a person living in Salzburg couldn't never be classified like a "real" citizen. Other people, immigrants, are tolerate, but sure they are also seen as newcomers and not people constituting the most solid tissue of the society of the city.

A city famous for classic but also modern music. There is an incredible story of a musician of asiatic origin that didn't know Mozart. Unthinkable, but also the one of people born in the city and that are composing inspired by the genius of Mozart, technically perfect in every composition and the last big one that classic music has known.

There is a special place where people love to kill themselves although as reports the author, this news tend of not being too mentioned in newsmagazines or magazine. They love to prepare anyway the scenario at the best!

Salzburg is art. There is an artist that created more than 6000 paintings, who also made a painting at Pope Benedict and in general there is an important gallery where it is possible buying great paintings of Klimt and other successful painters of the past.

There is an Hotel the Sacher one, exclusive and just for rich or powerful people. And there, the parade is immense: from American Presidents, passing through Asian celebrities, European politicians, actors, everyone have visited or spent some nights in that hotel or they were people of passage and they "touched" the hotel. 

Salzburg is a Catholic city and once it was a very powerful one. There are many churches in the city and they are still resonating of its glorious past.

At the same time the same name Salzburg is devotely found in the USA and in several part of Europe for remembering the enchanting Austrian City.

The book will drive us in the most popular places of Salzburg where we will meet a lot of pendular musicians but we will also "enter" in the most colorful places: the markets and in particular the one opposite Mirabella square opened every Thursday.

Although just a murder is committed every year in Salzburg, so it's a very friendly and peaceful city, Baumann a new writer established his novels in the city  and the Commissar Merana became a cult. 

Mozart is everywhere in the city; monuments, houses, the fabulous chocolate balls that every tourist will bring home because simply delicious; for sure he is the most important attraction. 

But...How many days people spend to Salzburg when tourists? Sometimes they don't tend to sleep in the city, they are there for some shopping and they return home at the end of the day; sometimes they stay for one or two days. 

Students studying at the Mozarteum have a fulgid international career in most cases. The school is prestigious and love to present to the world real talents from the entire world! although of course just a little numbers of these students will reach the top of the top.

The philosophy of Salzburg can be: "Small is beautiful!"

One of the most relaxing trip in letters in one of my favorite cities where I left a good portion of my heart for the beauty that Salzburg represent!

Highly recommended ALSO if you dream some evasion from the reality.

I thank so much Haus Publishing for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori