20 Activities
The Sound of Music Route Around Salzburg
Starts from
Salzburg
Transportation
By Car
Guidance
Self-Guided
Activities
20
Duration
2 days
Length
112 mi
Guide details
Starts from
Salzburg
Transportation
By Car
Guidance
Self-Guided
Duration
2 days
Length
112 mi
Monika Fuchs
Travel Expert
- Visit the wedding church from the musical The Sound of Music at Mondsee.
- Discover where Maria Kutschera lived and worked before her marriage to Baron von Trapp.
- See the castles that served as filming locations for the von Trapp family home.
- Hike to the place where Julie Andrews danced across the meadow with her movie family.
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In Salzburg, one always encounters the name of the von Trapp family. Baron von Trapp, his second wife Maria Kutschera and the ten children from both of the baron's marriages lived in Salzburg. There, the family launched a successful singing career until they were forced to flee to the United States to escape the Nazis. This story provided the basis for the musical The Sound of Music, which became a worldwide success starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. On this route you will follow the traces of the von Trapp family around and in Salzburg and get to know film locations, but also the places where they actually lived.
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In Salzburg, one always encounters the name of the von Trapp family. Baron von Trapp, his second wife Maria Kutschera and the ten children from both of the baron's marriages lived in Salzburg. There, the family launched a successful singing career until they were forced to flee to the United States to escape the Nazis. This story provided the basis for the musical The Sound of Music, which became a worldwide success starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. On this route you will follow the traces of the von Trapp family around and in Salzburg and get to know film locations, but also the places where they actually lived.
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Monika Fuchs
Travel Expert
- Visit the wedding church from the musical The Sound of Music at Mondsee.
- Discover where Maria Kutschera lived and worked before her marriage to Baron von Trapp.
- See the castles that served as filming locations for the von Trapp family home.
- Hike to the place where Julie Andrews danced across the meadow with her movie family.
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Travel itinerary
10 Activities
Day 1
50 mi1 mi
Musical Filming Locations and True Stations in the Life of the von Trapp Family
Filming locations of the musical The Sound of Music exist in and around Salzburg, as well as places where the von Trapp family actually lived. Today's route is a potpourri connecting these places. You'll see the wedding church from the film, the place where Maria Kutschera lived and worked before she married, and one of the filming locations that was the family's home. You will have your dinner at the Schloss Gasthof Aigen, near where the von Trapp family once lived. You will spend the night at Schloss Leopoldskron, which served as one of the musical filming locations for the von Trapp family home.
16:50
10 Activities
Day 2
62 mi2 mi
Castles and Other Locations in Salzburger Land as Filming Sites for the Sound of Music
In the musical The Sound of Music, the film crew used two castles as filming locations for the von Trapp family home. In the park of Hellbrunn Palace today you will find the pavilion that stood in front of Leopoldskron Palace in a famous singing scene. On a hike from Werfen south of Salzburg into the mountains, you will find a viewpoint of the place where the family in the musical left for their journey across the mountains to America. Julie Andrews danced across the meadow at this spot with the children of her movie family.
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