After coming down from the Fortress we walked into St Peter’s Cemetery which is the oldest cemetery in the Austrian city of Salzburg.Its origins date back to about 700, when the adjacent St. Peter’s Abbey (Stift St. Peter) was established by Saint Rupert of Salzburg. The abbey’s cemetery, probably at the site of an even earlier burial place, was first mentioned in an 1139 deed, the oldest tombstone dates to 1288.
Some of the graves had beautiful and unusual grave markers.
