Salzburg Cathedral vs Saint Peter’s Abbey, Salzburg
Two churches in Salzburg. Salzburg Cathedral has 6 tickets and tours to book; Saint Peter’s Abbey, Salzburg has 1 ticket or tour to book. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
The cathedral asks for a voluntary donation rather than a ticket, so entry is effectively free; a small charge applies to the cathedral museum and to the excavations under the nave. The better buy is the DomQuartier pass, which links the cathedral's oratory galleries with the Residenz state rooms, the residence gallery and the abbey museum of St Peter in one circuit through the archbishops' old private route, and takes two to three hours. Organ concerts at midday in summer are free or nearly so and last half an hour;
Saint Peter's Abbey stands at the foot of the Monchsberg cliff in the old town of Salzburg, Austria, a short walk from the cathedral and the Festival Halls, and entry to the abbey church and the cemetery is free. The catacombs cut into the rock above the cemetery are ticketed, cheaply, and they are the most unusual part of the visit. The abbey is one of the oldest continuously active monasteries in the German-speaking world.
