The Salzburg
Cathedral (German: Salzburger
Dom) is a
seventeenth-century Baroque cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Salzburg in the city of Salzburg , Austria, dedicated to and Saint Rupert and Saint Virgilius. Founded by Saint Rupert
in 774 on the remnants of a Roman town, the cathedral was rebuilt in 1181 after
a fire. In the seventeenth century, the cathedral was completely
rebuilt in the Baroque style under Prince-Bishop Wolf Dietrich Raitenau present appearance. Salzburg Cathedral still
contains the baptismal font in which composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptized.
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