Salzburg Cathedral

This guide to Salzburg Cathedral traces the market that has stood on Domplatz outside its doors since the late fourteen hundreds, from the medieval Tandlmarkt through the Nikolaimarkt of the sixteen hundreds, famous enough to rank alongside the Advent markets of Vienna and Paris. It follows the cathedral itself through repeated destruction and rebuilding, including an earlier church that burned in the eleven hundreds and the wartime bomb that tore through the current dome on one October day in nineteen forty-four. Listen for the seven bells overhead as you stand on the square where stalls once sold gingerbread and sausages against the very steps.