Decorated cows of Salzburg

I saw these advertising full-sized cow sculpted out of clay or something and painted over in Salzburg.

They really looked nice. Stern Biergarten in Salzburg is a remodeled old Bier Garten of the 1930's.

This beer garden/arcade is on one of the side streets of Getreidegasse, a busy shopping street. The most famous of Salzburg's sons, Amadeus Mozart was born on this street. The street is lined with ground level fountains. The day we came across this place, a European football games was playing and the bier garden was overflowing with the soccer/beer enthusiasts.

These cows are called the 'Sternbrau cows'.

This one was not part of the Sternbrau but in another location nearer to  the house where Mozart was born.

Here is an Austrian tradition of brining cows from higher alpine regions to lower levels.