Salzburg - Sound of Music Tour

We planned to explore Salzburg a bit before taking the 4 hour Sound of Music tour at 2pm but we left the pension late and by the time we finished lunch it was time for the tour. The tour took us around Salzburg by bus showing us both the real Trapped family sites and those from the movie.

The real Trapps were married in the abbey which is still run by 17 nuns.

The movie used the cathedral in Mondsee.

The real Trapp villa is now a private hotel while the movie villa used one villa for the grounds and lake

and another for the building

(scenes where one actor has their back to the lake and another their back to the villa were actually filmed miles apart).

The boat scene was filmed in the lake, requiring 5 takes and in the final take the actress playing Gretal swallowed a lot of water, was sick and scared and had to be played with treats to go on filming.

The original gazebo used for the "I Am Sixteen" song was on the same villa grounds with the lake but has since been moved to another park for easier movie fan access (though 3 different sized gazebos were used in the movie).

Mirabell park was the scene for the "Do-Re-Me" song with much of the park shown including the trellis arch path, stairs, fountain and dwarves. All of the interior scenes were filmed in soundstages in Hollywood.