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Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria, 2004
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"Hohensalzburg Fortress, reachable via taxi or funicular, overlooks an ornate, wintry city that gives visitors the sense of 'being inside a souvenir snowdome,' says photographer Bob Krist."

—From "Salzburg in Winter," November/December 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine

Photograph by Bob Krist

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