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The
Sound of Music location: The Do-Re-Mi steps in the Mirabell
Gardens, Salzburg
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THE
SOUND OF MUSIC filming locations
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CREDITS
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The Do-Re-Mi number begins atop the Monchsberg
Cliffs, on Winkler
Terrace which you can reach from the Monchsberg
elevator in Anton
Neumayrplatz, at the end of the Gstattengasse
shopping street.
The picnic is at the village of Werfen,
25 miles south of Salzburg
in the Salzach River valley (the location for wartime
action movie Where Eagles Dare).
The number continues at Mirabell
Gardens, on Schwarzstrasse,
over the Salzach River behind Schloss Mirabell, where
you’ll find the fountains, statues and, famously, the
flight of steps on which the children hop. The little footbridge is Mozart
Steg, north of Mozart Platz.
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The
Sound of Music location: The Sixteen Going On Seventeen gazebo: Schloss Hellbrunn, Salzburg
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The Von Trapp gazebo, used for Sixteen Going On Seventeen,
once stood in the grounds of Leopoldskron,
but constant trespassing resulted in it being moved
and reconstructed in the ornamental gardens of Schloss
Hellbrunn, Morzger Strasse, south of the
city. And another cheat. It was recreated, slightly larger, back at 20th Century-Fox in Hollywood for the interior shots.
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The
Sound of Music location: Mariaís wedding: Mondsee Cathedral, Austria
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Maria’s wedding, which took place in Nonnberg
Abbey, was filmed in the baroque, twin-towered
church of Mondsee,
about 15 miles east of Salzburg
on the E55/E60.
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The
Sound of Music location: Mariaís wedding: Mondsee Cathedral, Austria
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The Anschluss scene, Austriaís enforced unity with Nazi
Germany, was staged back in the centre of town in Residenzplatz.
The music festival, where the family perform their disappearing
act, is at the Felsenreitschule (‘Rock Riding School’) on Toscaninihof,
a massive rock arena built by the Romans for tournaments
and part of the Festspielhaus.
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The
Sound of Music location: The Von Trapp Family performs at the music festival: Felsenreitschule, the ëRock Riding Schoolí, Salzburg
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The cemetery, in which the Von Trapps hide from the
Nazis, is a Hollywood studio set based on St Peter’s Graveyard, which you can see just off Kapitelplatz.
The mountain over which the family finally escapes to
freedom is Mount Obersalzburg (once proposed as the site for Hitler’s Eagleís Nest
hideaway), near the village of Rossfeld,
on the 319, 12 miles south of Salzburg.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE SOUND OF MUSIC
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TRAVEL
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Several companies offer Sound
of Music tours which visit the locations:
try Bobís Special Tours
(tel: 0662. 872484) or Panorama
Tours, Mirabell Square
(tel: 0662.871618)
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ASSOCIATED
FILMS |
WWII
actioner Where Eagles
Dare, with Clint
Eastwood and Richard
Burton, was filmed at the village of Werfen,
about half an hour by train from Salzburg.
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