Mirabell Palace and Gardens: free entry, the Marble Hall's visiting days and the Do-Re-Mi steps

💡 The Short Version: Mirabell is free. The gardens are open daily from about 6:00 to dusk. The palace and the Angel Staircase are open Monday to Saturday and closed on Sundays and holidays. The Marble Hall opens on set weekdays only: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday about 8:00 to 16:00, Tuesday and Friday 13:00 to 16:00, never during events. The Orangery garden is closed for redesign until December 2026. The Do-Re-Mi dance was filmed at the Pegasus fountain and on the steps in front of the rose hill. Concerts in the Marble Hall are ticketed: the Mirabell Palace concertad is from €39 on GetYourGuide. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the Original Sound of Music Tourad passes the gardens and is from €75 (GetYourGuide).

Hours and entry

The palace houses the mayor’s offices and the city administration, so only the Angel Staircase and the Marble Hall can be visited. Hours are the tourist board’s, salzburg.info.

Mirabell Palace and its gardens, with Hohensalzburg Fortress in the distance. Photo: Isiwal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Closed: the palace and the Marble Hall on Sundays and holidays, and the Marble Hall during special events. The Hedge Theatre and the Dwarf Garden are closed in the winter months.
• The Orangery garden is closed for redesign until December 2026. The Orangery building is open, and until about the end of November 2026 its entrance is the side door in the Mirabell Garden.
• Access: the palace and gardens are step-free, and the Marble Hall has an induction loop.

Tours worth paying for

The palace is free and the gardens need no guide. The reason to pay is a concert in the Marble Hall. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Mozart concert at Mirabell Palace

From €39 · 1.5 hours · 4.8 stars from 4,347 reviews

Salzburg: Mozart Concert at Mirabell Palacead is held in the Marble Hall, the archbishop’s former banqueting hall, where Leopold Mozart and his children Wolfgang and Nannerl played. It has a 15-minute interval. The listing is labelled an official ticket from the Salzburger Konzertgesellschaft: exchange the voucher at the box office in front of the hall, on the first floor. Doors open 30 minutes before the concert, and cameras and recording are banned.

Classical concert at the Mirabell

From €30 · 75 minutes · 4.1 stars from 301 reviews

Salzburg: Classical Music Concert at the Mirabellad is the cheaper and lower-rated of the two. Mozart concerts in Salzburg compares it with the fortress and dinner concerts.

What to see

Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich built the palace in 1606 for Salome Alt and their 15 children, as Schloss Altenau. His successor Markus Sittikus renamed it Mirabell. The gardens were redesigned about 1690 to plans by Fischer von Erlach, and are part of the UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Marble Hall in Mirabell Palace. Photo: Przemek Pietrak, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

1. The Angel Staircase. The stairway into the Marble Hall. It is the one part of the palace you can walk in without a ticket, Monday to Saturday.
2. The Marble Hall. Today a civil-wedding room. Check the weekday before you go.
3. The Large Parterre. Four figure groups by Ottavio Mosto for fire, air, earth and water.
4. The Pegasus fountain. In the Small Parterre; cast by Caspar Gras in 1661 and in the garden since 1913. Maria and the children dance round it in “Do-Re-Mi” and finish on the steps in front of the rose hill. The Original Sound of Music Tour stops here.
5. The Hedge Theatre. One of the oldest north of the Alps, closed in winter.
6. The Dwarf Garden. Originally 28 dwarfs in white Untersberg marble; 17 survive in the original. Closed in winter.
7. The Orangery panorama. The Salzburg Museum’s panorama museum, with the Sattler Panorama of 1829 and a UNESCO World Heritage exhibition, €8. Best museums in Salzburg has the rest of the museum’s open sites.

The order that works: the gardens first, since they open at about 6:00 and need no ticket, then the Angel Staircase, then the Marble Hall if the day is a visiting day. What to skip: the Hedge Theatre and the Dwarf Garden in winter, when they are closed.

The Pegasus statue in the Mirabell Gardens, with the fortress beyond the trees. Photo: Andrew Bossi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Practical information

• Getting there: Mirabell is on the new-town side of the Salzach, at Mirabellplatz. The Mozart Residence is on Makartplatz next to it, and the Original Sound of Music Tour and the Fräulein Maria bike tour both start from Mirabellplatz.
• Time: the gardens are a walk of any length. The Marble Hall, when open, is a few minutes.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving on a Sunday for the palace, or on a Tuesday or Friday morning for the Marble Hall.

What to book in Salzburg has the closed days for every sight. The Mozart Residence is on the next square. Sound of Music locations in Salzburg separates the real places from the studio sets, and the old town walk crosses the river from here. The right bank walk starts at Mirabellplatz and goes through the gardens to the Mozart Residence and up the Kapuzinerberg. Free things to do in Salzburg has the other no-cost sights. Salzburg with kids has the gardens and the Dwarf Garden. Hellbrunn is the other palace garden, with a ticket. For a bed, see where to stay in Salzburg.