Salzburg traditional cloth

     Salzburg is famous for it's traditions and unique culture, connected to it's region called Tirol. Many citizens of Salzburg and those who live in Tirol region are following traditional style of clothing, however because of pop culture diffusion, people now wearing it mostly on celebrations, holidays or other types of traditional occasions. In the Old Town, many workers, such as horse riders, clercs in souvenir stores, etc. are wearing it to attract more people and to show tourists how typical traditional cloth look like. Old people are wearing cloth more frequently, as they are more into traditions than younger generations and are adopted to this style. This style of clothing made out of leather and high quality materials, so their costs are pretty high. Therefore, mostly middle and high class people can afford them.

     On the picture below, you can see how it look like and also notice the interior of the store and other types of cloth they are selling in this style.

  As I tried on the cloth myself, I can tell that the materials are expensive and made of leather, wool and detailes are hand-made. You wouldn't find the exact same item in the store. The prices are pretty expensive, The shorts cost around 200 Euros and the Jacket around 300 Euros. Outside the Austria, this outfit would cost much more expensive, as it is unique and would not probably be produced in another country, or even another Austria region and it be exported. The full set of traditional clothing would cost from  2000 to about 4000 Euros, depending on the season collections.

Below you can see a set of Male and Female Outfit that you can buy in the store. ( left is male, right is female)

   Such outfits have it's roots from farmers and hunters who used animal materials and through time it became a fashion style called "Landhausmode". Today, many designers have adopted the shape, texture and colors and combined them with modern trends. This clothing represents the national pride and appreciation of traditions and cultural heritage. 

Here is a picture of one of the stores which is located just in the center of an Old Town. People promotes the style and when you are in center, you can notice lots of such shops as well as people wearing them. 

  Here is the map of the store 

                                     Thank you for attention! Learn more of a folk culture of Tirol region

  In most of the cities there are plenty immigrant communities that actually diffuse their culture and traditions to the country they are staying in. To take an exaple, I went to such community; it was Turkish mostly and I've made an expedition myself to show you the example of how immigrants can impact other culture by spreading their traditions.

This is how a typical Turkish neighbourhood look like in Salzburg. Usually, it is either low or middle class. It is located just near the train station and has a lot of Turkish stores, restourants, and other buisnesses around. I saw a lot of Turkish people in this community and they are living there, so we can assume that this is a Turkish community. 

Just on the way to the neighbourhood shown above, I saw a lot of  such stores and cafes that have traditional routes from Turkey. This small cafe, as they call it "bistro" has typical traditional fast food of Turkey, such as "kebab", "durum", etc. and mostly, Turkish people from those communities are visiting it and all the cashiers and cooks are speaing Turkish. I visited it and had one of those traditional meals, inside, the traditional music was playing as well as Turkish channels on TV. 

Another traditional store was selling fast food. National products and food that are common to eat on their motherland. Those products were mostly snacks, such as nuts and sweets, such as "rahat lukum". There were a lot of kinds of their national food that not only offers fast food. 

Down the street, I saw the store that was selling national cloth and what is important, mostly for women. As the way how women are dressed in Turkey is one of the biggest traditions they follow, this tradition is even connected to religion. The store is selling special scarfs that women have to wear on their head and hijabs, that by traditions, they have to wear it casually. So most women from the community are going to this store, as it is the closest one to the neighbourhood, and buynig their traditional, even cultural cloth.

This is the view on the fast food "bistro" and this is the best example of how the traditions of immigrants impact city life and businesses.
In this link ypu can check how this community, that is located by the train station look loke 

     Salzburg Geographical Expedition team visited a labyrinth by the Landeskrankenhaus Salsburg. The labyryinth was designed as a phylosophical symbol that can represent many things from issue you have to solve to the way of life: from birth to death. The structure of the labyrinth has one entrance and one final destination. While you are going on it's road you may consider many questions and realize that you may be close to your goal, however, you will have to find out much more in order to complete it.
     I myself realized and felt the two perspectives of this labyrinth: perspective from Google map and being inside of it. From Google map you see it's shape, the full shape which shows you the labyrinth with it's clear passes; however, you don't know what is it made of. My expectations were that the labyrinth is surronded by short walls and you actually have to go through it. When I got there, the labyrinth was used as a decoration for the most part and the road was not wide and made of rocks. Also I expected the size of it be bigger. However, in the labyrinth entrance were written words that have some meaning, that you couldn't see on the map. The labyrinth is not the map, it represents more some symbolic meaning about life and it;s difficulties. The labyrinth, however, organazes the space as it influences mind and behaviour. As it is located just by the hospital it
probably influences patient's spatial's environment.
     This labyrinth was a good exercise for our Team to develope geographical imagination. First we saw the map of it in 2D where we couldn't recognize small details that could affect our opinion about it. Later we went there and saw much more, more of our sences were used there: we could touch it, srep on it, feel the environment and facility that surrounding it and it's purpose.







                                                                               


                                                                           This is the picture I took during our expedition, lower,                                                                         you can see the link that will show you it's look                                                                                       from 2D perspective.                                                        

                                              Map on which labyrinth is located