The cultural city, situated approximately 10 km in the east of Innsbruck, is among the best kept historic old-cities of Austria. With its medieval, lovely restaurated facades of the bourgeois-houses and the pittoresk, narrow crooked alleys of the good kept old-city, Hall almost today gives pictures of its remarkable past. As lasting appreciation the city has been awarded the Austrian State-Award of Preservation of Monuments. The guest-friendly Inn-City Hall in Tyrol presents itself to its visitors with the impressing historic ambiente as al living "City with heart". Connected with the city-history is the time of the salt-mining and the minting, that has been transferred in 1477 from Meran to Hall in Tyrol. The "Guldiner" that was mintet in Hall in Tyrol, was once the greatest silver-mint of the world. Beside the international cultural events, hospitalities, many historic sights, as for example the "Münzerturm" (mint-tower), the "Bergbaumuseum" (mining-museum), the gothic St. Niclas church or the "Damenstift Kloster Herz Jesu" (lady-convent cloister heart of Jesus), Hall in Tyrol offers itself as a manifold shopping-mekka, too.