Here are the gardens of Hellbrun Palace, the summer home of the Archbishop. Salzburg was ruled as a Catholic City State, a beacon of
Catholicism for the Vatican among the rising tide of Protestantism.
In 1731, Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian
signed an edit to banish all protestants from Salzburg, and over 20000 professed Protestant beliefs, and left Salzburg,
most taken in by Prussia.
There are 43 churches in Salzburg, a city of around 150,000, and 42 of them are Catholic.
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The back of Hellbrun Palace, by the waterpark
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Austrian students in the waterpark
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Mechanical music-playing theatre, built in 1750
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Close-up of characters in the theatre
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People trying to evade the trick fountains that come on without notice
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The unicorn guards the Palace from the Hellbrun gardens
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Hellbrun gardens
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Hellbrun Palace
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View from Hellbrun Palace
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Germaul, a water automat in the Palace. When his mouth fills with water, his tounge sticks out and his eyes roll up.
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