Eagle's Nest Tour: 4.5-hour Eagle's Nest Historical Tour from SalzburgDay trips and Excursions

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Eagle's Nest Tour: 4.5-hour Eagle's Nest Historical Tour from Salzburg

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About this experience

✔ Health and safety measures apply
✔ Best-in-class experience
✔ No booking fees

DURATION: 4.30 hours
DEPARTURE TIME: 8.45 am
MEETING POINT: Panorama Tours Bus Terminal, Mirabellplatz / corner Hubert-Sattler-Gasse 1, Salzburg
LANGUAGE/S: English, German
OPENING SEASONS: from 6th May to 31st October, daily
WHO CAN COME: Eagle's Nest tour is suitable for everyone

Overview

Join an Eagle's Nest tour and explore the Bavarian mountains from Salzburg. Eagle’s Nest offers a breathtaking panoramic view of the Alps and the neighboring city of Salzburg at an altitude of 1,834 meters (6,017 ft). Find out more about this original National Socialist representative building, which now houses a restaurant.

◾ Explore the spectacular Bavarian Alps on a half-day tour of the Eagle's Nest
◾ Travel up to the Eagle’s Nest by shuttle bus and elevator
◾ Learn all about Hitler’s former retreat as you explore

About this experience

✔ Health and safety measures apply
✔ Best-in-class experience
✔ No booking fees

DURATION: 4.30 hours
DEPARTURE TIME: 8.45 am
MEETING POINT: Panorama Tours Bus Terminal, Mirabellplatz / corner Hubert-Sattler-Gasse 1, Salzburg
LANGUAGE/S: English, German
OPENING SEASONS: from 6th May to 31st October, daily
WHO CAN COME: Eagle's Nest tour is suitable for everyone

Description - What to expect

This Eagle’s Nest tour takes the route from Mirabell Square in Salzburg via the Alpenstraße to neighboring Bavaria and finally to the Obersalzberg. Upon arrival, change to a specifically equipped bus that takes you up the 6.5km (4 miles) long and 4m (12ft) wide road with a gradient of 22%. The last stretch to the Eagle’s Nest consists of a 124m (406ft) long tunnel through solid rock and a sumptuously decorated elevator, which takes 41 seconds to go up the 124m (406ft) to the interior of the Eagle’s Nest.

Enjoy the striking views of the Alps from the Eagle’s Nest plateau at 1,834 m (406 ft) elevation. Discover alpine flora and fauna and greet each other with a “Berg heil” (“Hail to the mountain”; traditional mountaineer greeting) at the summit cross, close by.

Before we get back on route to Salzburg, stop at Berchtesgaden where you get the chance to explore this picturesque town.

Free Cancellation

Free cancellation is available for this Eagle's Nest tour up to 48 hours before the start of the experience

What's included, what's not

✔ Bus ride to the Eagle's Nest
✔ Tour guide
✖ Food and drinks

About the area

The road leading to the Eagle’s Nest is a feat of architectural mastery. It was blasted into the solid rock of the mountain over a period of only 13 months. The elevation difference of 800m (2625ft) is covered with only a single switchback and 5 tunnels. The design of this road is unique around the world.

History of the Eagle‘s Nest
Construction of the Eagle’s Nest with its meter-thick foundation walls was finished after only 13 months in 1938. It was one of the most elaborate construction projects during the Third Reich. The building is located on a spur just beneath the summit of Kehlstein Mountain at an elevation of 1,834m (6017ft).

Initially, the Eagle’s Nest was intended to fulfill representational purposes and was a gift to Adolf Hitler for his 50th birthday. Hitler however visited the Eagle’s Nest only a few times.

Except for the Eagle’s Nest, only a few “authentic” buildings of the Third Reich are preserved to this day. The Eagle’s Nest was not hit during the airstrike on 25th April 1945 and still exists in its original form today.

Its name was coined by a French diplomat who supposedly gave the building the nickname “Eagle’s Nest”.

Today, the building is used as a mountain inn. The restaurant boasts a unique panoramic view of the Berchtesgaden mountains and the area around Salzburg. Additionally, it is a reminder of the horrors and human abysses of the Nazi dictatorship under Adolf Hitler.

Good to know

◾ Please make your own way to the meeting point, 15 min. prior departure
◾ Infants up to 4 years are not entitled to their own seat
◾ In case of border controls, please make sure you carry a valid passport!

Health and safety

✔ Provider complies with local legislation and applicable health recommendations with regard to Covid-19 prevention measures

Tour Supplier

PanoramaTours

Description - What to expect

This Eagle’s Nest tour takes the route from Mirabell Square in Salzburg via the Alpenstraße to neighboring Bavaria and finally to the Obersalzberg. Upon arrival, change to a specifically equipped bus that takes you up the 6.5km (4 miles) long and 4m (12ft) wide road with a gradient of 22%. The last stretch to the Eagle’s Nest consists of a 124m (406ft) long tunnel through solid rock and a sumptuously decorated elevator, which takes 41 seconds to go up the 124m (406ft) to the interior of the Eagle’s Nest.

Enjoy the striking views of the Alps from the Eagle’s Nest plateau at 1,834 m (406 ft) elevation. Discover alpine flora and fauna and greet each other with a “Berg heil” (“Hail to the mountain”; traditional mountaineer greeting) at the summit cross, close by.

Before we get back on route to Salzburg, stop at Berchtesgaden where you get the chance to explore this picturesque town.
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