Hallstatt exists where a town should not fit. With steep mountains on one side and deep lake water on the other, there was never space to sprawl, so the village built upward. Homes stack vertically, walkways cling to slopes, stairways replace streets, and daily life adapted to permanent limits. In this short, we break down how salt made Hallstatt essential, how geography forced its architecture into a narrow footprint, and why it still feels like a settlement carved into the mountain itself.
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