You also learn details about filming the movie and most importantly the true history of the Von Trapp family. Maria, a novice at a strict Salzburg convent, loves the majestic landscape of the Alps and often forgets about her religious duties and instead goes hiking on the mountains.The Mother Abbess, a very wise woman, thinks Maria might be better suited to life outside of the convent and decides to send her to Captain von Trapp's home to be the governess to his seven children. In The Sound of Music, Maria and the Von Trapp children sing “Do, Re, Mi” while dancing, running and skipping around Mirabell Gardens. The movie shooting with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in 1964 was scheduled to take six weeks but was stretched to 11 thanks to Salzburg’s infamous heavy rain. The Sound of Music World unites two worlds.

Visit the film locations on foot or by bike tour with our free Sound of Music movie tour map. Each unit is fitted with a patio, a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a seating area with a sofa, a flat-screen TV, a washing machine, and a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer. Untersberg is depicted twice in the Sound of Music, once during the opening scene in which Maria is singing the “Sound of Music” and again when the family is escaping over the mountain to Switzerland while singing “Climb Every Mountain”. Watch the first few minutes of The Sound of Music and the movie pans to various locations of loveliness in Austria. You know how a movie often over romanticizes a place and it's beauty? The scenery around Salzburg and surrounding areas alone is worth the time and money. Salzburg: The Sound of Music Shooting Locations. FREE do-it-yourself Sound of Music movie tour in Salzburg Austria. That isn't the case in Salzburg, or Austria in general. Here's my complete guide to the Sound of Music in Salzburg.

Fiction and reality meet for the first time in one place. In my humble opinion, The Sound of Music Tour is a MUST DO for anybody visiting Salzburg, Austria. Mt. See the best sights from The Sound of Music walking tour including Gazebo Pavilion Location, dwarf statues, horse fountain, wedding church, do re mi singing spots from the SOM movie.

Panorama Tours’ relationship with The Sound of Music in Salzburg goes back to the filming of the movie when their drivers were ferrying the cast and crew around. Set 1.7 miles from Kapuzinerberg & Capuchin Monastery, Sound of Music Resort Nonntal offers accommodation with a balcony, as well as free bikes and a garden. "The Sound of Music" made Salzburg and its surroundings famous around the world.