Siegmundstor West

This guide to Siegmundstor West in Salzburg opens with the stone king standing over the tunnel entrance, Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, and the crime that sits behind his crown: in the year 517 he let his wife convince him his own teenage son was plotting against him, with consequences he spent the rest of his life atoning for. It follows how a killer became a saint people prayed to when a fever would not break, and how Prince Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach later chose this same patron to watch over the first road tunnel cut through Austrian rock, between 1764 and 1767. Look up before you walk beneath him into the mountain.