Practice Management

Salzburg: Mozart, Huns and Lawyers.

By Dan Hull

You dream in American--but you still live in the world. Far beyond a museum piece, and being a favorite on the tourist's list of "cute small Alpine cities" in Europe, Salzburg, Austria is best appreciated by digging deeply, and with a reverence. Celts settled it, and they mined salt. The salt commerce never stopped--and in later centuries barges floated tons and tons of it on the Salzach River to points all over Europe. By the 8th century, salt barges were subject to a toll. Rome claimed Salzburg around 15 BC. Charlemagne ate and slept here. It was capital of the Austro-Hungarian territory between 1866 and 1918. And apart from Mozart, art, salt, ancient Celtic culture, St Peter's (above) and restaurants carved into cliffs, this staid Austrian city is home to the International Business Law Consortium, an active group of over 85 first-rate law and accounting firms in strategic cities all over the world, and founded in 1996.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on August 08, 2010 (boomark / email).