Salzburg - St Peter's Churchyard

Salzburg's Festungsgasse leads to the venerable and impressive St Peter's Churchyard (Friedhof St Peter), surrounded on three sides by arcades (1627) containing family tombs. To the south it backs on to the sheer rock face of the Mönchsberg, in which are Early Christian catacombs and St Maximus' Chapel, hewn from the solid rock. The Late Gothic St Margaret's Chapel (closed to visitors) in the center of the churchyard was built in 1485-91.