Salzburg packs a remarkable amount into a small footprint — a UNESCO-listed baroque Old Town, one of Europe's best-preserved medieval fortresses, Mozart's birthplace, and palace gardens known worldwide from film. This private tour covers the essentials in a single half-day, with a car and driver-guide reserved for your party and pickup from your hotel door.

Your tour combines driving and walking to suit the city's geography: the car handles the distances and the viewpoints, while the Old Town — which is largely pedestrianised — is explored on foot. You'll see the Mirabell Palace Gardens, walk Getreidegasse beneath its wrought-iron guild signs to Mozart's birthplace, take in Residenzplatz and the cathedral, and get the panoramic view over the city and the Alps that most day-trippers miss entirely with photo stops at Hohensalzburg Fortress, Leopoldskron, Hellbrunn.