Makartplatz

This guide to Makartplatz in Salzburg follows two very different currencies tied to the same square. One is the painter Hans Makart, born at its edge in eighteen forty, who turned his own studio decor into a Vienna fashion craze sold by the yard as Makart red. The other is the Mozart family's rented apartment at number eight, where Wolfgang lived through his teenage years, gutted by bombs in nineteen forty-four and left standing wounded for decades. You'll hear how the square's name itself changed once already, from Hannibalplatz to its painter's honor. What eventually paid to rebuild the Mozart house came from an unexpected source abroad.