# Hohensalzburg Fortress and the FestungsBahn funicular

What to do en Salzburg · Salzburg

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/austria/salzburg/things-to-do/hohensalzburg-fortress · Revisado: 2026-11-12

- Desde: 15.5 € adult, with funicular up and down
- Duración: 2 h 30
- Temporada: All year, every day
- Para quién: All ages

The fortress above the Mönchsberg, with a funicular from the old town, museums and views of the city · 2–3 h · from €15.50 with the funicular.

What it is
Hohensalzburg Fortress crowns the Mönchsberg, above the old town, and can be seen from almost every street in Salzburg. It is open 365 days a year. You go up on the FestungsBahn funicular, which leaves from the Festungsgasse, next to the Kapitelplatz, or on foot by a steep path of about twenty minutes. At the top you walk through courtyards, bastions and the chapel, and the museums depending on your ticket: the fortress museum, the Rainer regiment museum, the marionette museum and the armoury.
Tickets and hours
There are four tickets. With the funicular, the basic one costs €15.50 and the full one, which adds the Princes' Chambers and the magic theatre, €19.20. If you walk up, €12 and €14.50. Children aged 6 to 14 pay between €4.90 and €7.30. It is open from 9:30 to 17:00 from October to April and from 8:30 to 20:00 from May to September (museums and rooms, from 9:00 to 19:00).
From 9 to 13 November 2026 the funicular is under maintenance and the interiors are closed; from 11 January to 14 March 2027 it stops again, but the museums are open and you walk up.
With a dog
Dogs enter on a lead in the outdoor areas; they do not go into the museums or the rooms, and on the funicular they wear a muzzle.

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Coordenadas: 47.795, 13.0476

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