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*The Castle, like many of Salzburg's most famous buildings, was erected by Wolf Dietrich, a worldly Renaissance archbishop and fiery descendant of the Medici. There he housed his mistress, pretty, witty Salome Alt and her children (eleven, according to the best guesses). Besides Salome, Wolf Dietrich loved boar hunting, foreign languages, and pomp. He spent the last five years of his life in the Salzburg Fortress dungeon after a bad neighbor, Bavaria's Duke Maximilian, turned against him. His Salome was exiled to Wels, a dreary town in Upper Austria, where she died of boredom (complicated, according to some authorities, by heartbreak).
*Of famed Beer-Yodel-Street, Count Ferdinand Czernin observed in his definitive treatise This Salzburg: "In Salzburg the combination of beer and yodeling (Yodel: a strong guttural noise emanating from a native's throat when happy or in love) certainly isn't too farfetched, as the one in a vicious circle always leads to the other. Beer via happiness to yodeling, and yodeling via thirst to beer."