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The Sound of Music
As they say "the hills are
alive with the Sound of Music." No visit to Salzburg would be complete
for Americans without a tour to the locations where the SOM was filmed and
some where events actually happened in the 1930s.
This is Leopoldskron Castle.
You may be able to recognize it as the front of the Trapp family home in the
movie. The lake that is frozen in this photo (since it is December) is
the same lake that the children were boating on and fell into in the film.
Mom and Susan take a moment at the
gazebo where the Captain and Maria began to fall in love. This gazebo
is at Hellbrunn Castle and was placed there by Fox studios for all Sound of
Music fans after the original one was covered in graffiti and destroyed by
some kids.
This is Nonnberg Abbey, the oldest
convent in the German speaking part of Europe. Maria was sent to the
Trapp family from there and she married the baron there in 1927.
One of the mountains used near
lake Mondsee to film and show that "the hills are alive."
Church Mondsee is the location
of the wedding in the movie between Maria and the baron.
Mom and Susan
inside this lovely church.
Us in front of Lake
Mondsee and the Austrian hills.
The gardens at
Mirabell Palace You can see the Salszburg fortress in the background.
Us in front of the
Pegasus statue in Mirabell Gardens. This is the statue Maria and the
children danced around and sang Do-Re-Mi.
Dinner in Salzburg
We had our dinner
at a proper at an Austrian brew house at Augustiner Brewery. All items
were al la carte and there was lots of meat, potatoes and beer.
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