!!!Mönchsberg

Moenchsberg Mountain, in the City of Salzburg, running from southeast 
to northwest, on the left bank of the River Salzach, opposite the  
Kapuzinerberg Hill; a conglomerate of the Mindel/Riss interglacial 
period ( Ice Age), dropping on all sides in steep slopes into the 
Salzachtal valley, with wooded plateau at top.  Hohensalzburg Castle 
(with funicular railway) is situated on its highest point (540 m) 
in the southeast, and the convent on  Nonnberg Mountain in its eastern 
foothills. The Moenchsberg face in the east, about 50 m high, rises 
vertically directly from the city centre (danger of falling rocks, 
last disastrous rockslide 1669). The Catacombs of St. Peter´s 
cemetery, the  Felsenreitschule, the "Neutor" (a 131-m-long tunnel, 
built in 1765 and enlarged several times, connecting the old, 
historical city centre and the suburbs of Riedenburg and Maxglan, west 
of Moenchsberg), large underground parking garages, part of the Main 
Festival Hall and an elevator are built into rock walls. On the 
plateau, old fortifications (former powder magazines, "civic 
militia"), parks, lookout terraces, restaurants, water reservoir, a 
street, villas, etc. have been built.


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