Salzburg · the Salzkammergut · Stowe, Vermont
1965
One octave · eight places
“Do-Re-Mi” ends on the steps at Mirabell. Start there and go up: through the old town, out to the lake, to the mountain at the top. From the first Do to the last is 9 km as the crow flies.
Do, step 1 of 8: Mirabell Gardens.
Mirabellplatz, Salzburg
Up and down the steps, round the Pegasus Fountain.
Maria and the children dance and sing “Do-Re-Mi” up and down the steps here, with the Pegasus Fountain behind them.
The production used the steps up to the Rosenhügel, the rose hill, for the end of the song.
Gardens open daily from about 6am to dusk; free. The dwarf garden and hedge theatre close in winter.
From Mirabellplatz · Daily 9.15am and 2pm · from €70
Four hours by coach with a live guide: Mirabell and the Pegasus Fountain, Leopoldskron across the lake, the gazebo at Hellbrunn and the church at Mondsee.
Book the tourFrom Mirabellplatz 4 · Daily 9.30am · adults €50
About three and a half hours by bike, on paths the coaches cannot use, from Mirabell out to Leopoldskron and Frohnburg. Runs April to October.
Book a bikeThe real Maria
26 November 1927
Founded in the eighth century, it is the oldest nunnery north of the Alps, and the real Maria Kutschera was a novice here.
Maria became a postulant at Nonnberg in 1924; she married Georg von Trapp at the abbey on 26 November 1927.
The church and cemetery are open to visitors; the abbey itself is closed to the public.
Filmed 1964
The wedding was filmed here, and was one of the first scenes shot.
The monastery was founded in 748.
A parish church on the market square; visit outside services.
The Trapp villa
On screen it is one house. Put it together.
Three pieces, three places. Press one to set it in.
Salzburg
Twelve suites in the palace and 55 rooms in the Meierhof across the courtyard, among them a Sound of Music double room looking over the pond to the Untersberg. Breakfast is in the palace’s Marble Hall.
Check rooms
Hellbrunn
The gazebo is the setting of “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” and “Something Good”. The Salzburg Museum calls it the only film set from The Sound of Music still in Salzburg.
The glass doors are shut. Knock anyway.
In the park at Hellbrunn. The museum beside it: daily 9.30am–5.30pm until 1 November 2026, adults €8; it reopens on 20 March 2027.
Hellbrunn, Salzburg · Daily 9.30am–5.30pm until 1 November · adults €8
The new museum beside the gazebo at Hellbrunn: the film, the musical and the real family, with costumes, photographs and a full-size gazebo you can walk into.
Plan a visitThe last shot
At the foot of the Untersberg.
The mountain opens the film, as Maria sings, and closes it, as the family climb towards Switzerland.
Keep climbing.
Cable car every half hour, 8.30am–5pm in October; adults €34 return. Closed for maintenance from 2 November to about 13 December 2026.
The village appears from the air at the beginning of the film.
A lakeside village with boats across the Wolfgangsee.
The castle in its pond appears in the aerial shots at the start of the film.
Privately owned with no tours: see it from outside only.
Werfen gave the backdrop for “Do-Re-Mi”, with Hohenwerfen fortress behind.
The fortress is open until 2 November 2026, 9.30am–4pm, closed Mondays; its rooms by guided tour.
St Leonhard, Grödig · 8.30am–5pm in October · adults €34 return
Eight minutes up the mountain from the film’s first and last shots. Departures on the hour and half hour.
Check timesThe people
The stars at the premiere and on location. The wedding at Mondsee was one of the first scenes shot.
Georg had seven children with his first wife and three with Maria: ten, not the film’s seven. In real life, the family won first prize at the Festival’s folk-song choir competition in 1937.
Stowe, Vermont
The family bought a farm in Stowe in 1942 and began taking guests in a 27-room lodge in 1950. After a fire in 1980 it was rebuilt as a 96-room lodge on 2,600 acres, still owned and run by the family.
Maria von Trapp died on 28 March 1987 and is buried in the family cemetery here.
A family-run resort; guests can take a family history tour.
Stowe, Vermont
The real family’s lodge in Stowe: 96 rooms on 2,600 acres, still owned and run by the von Trapps. Guests can take a family history tour.
Check rooms15 places you can visit. Villa Trapp in Aigen is a private house and is not on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Gardens open daily from about 6am to dusk; free. The dwarf garden and hedge theatre close in winter.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An open square in the old town, free at any hour.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Opposite the Festival halls; free to see at any hour.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Festival hall tours cost €7 for adults, about 50 minutes; building work in the foyers limits them for now.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working cemetery, open to walk through; keep it quiet. The catacombs in the rock are a separate visit.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The church and cemetery are open to visitors; the abbey itself is closed to the public.
Mirabellplatz, Salzburg
Maria and the children dance and sing “Do-Re-Mi” up and down the steps here, with the Pegasus Fountain behind them.
Gardens open daily from about 6am to dusk; free. The dwarf garden and hedge theatre close in winter.
Residenzplatz, Salzburg
Maria sings “I Have Confidence” across this square and splashes water at the marble horses of the fountain.
An open square in the old town, free at any hour.
Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Salzburg
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach built it in 1695 to wash and water the archbishop’s horses.
Opposite the Festival halls; free to see at any hour.
Hofstallgasse, Salzburg
Once a quarry for the cathedral’s stone, it became a riding school in 1693 and is now a Salzburg Festival stage.
Festival hall tours cost €7 for adults, about 50 minutes; building work in the foyers limits them for now.
Below the Mönchsberg, Salzburg
Salzburg’s tourist board counts it among the oldest cemeteries in the world, with catacombs cut into the Mönchsberg rock.
A working cemetery, open to walk through; keep it quiet. The catacombs in the rock are a separate visit.
Nonnberggasse, below the fortress
Founded in the eighth century, it is the oldest nunnery north of the Alps, and the real Maria Kutschera was a novice here.
The church and cemetery are open to visitors; the abbey itself is closed to the public.
Stay
The palace on the lake in Salzburg, and the lodge the von Trapps still run in Vermont.
Salzburg
Twelve suites in the palace and 55 rooms in the Meierhof across the courtyard, among them a Sound of Music double room looking over the pond to the Untersberg. Breakfast is in the palace’s Marble Hall.
Check roomsStowe, Vermont
The real family’s lodge in Stowe: 96 rooms on 2,600 acres, still owned and run by the von Trapps. Guests can take a family history tour.
Check roomsGo there
The bus tour, the bicycle tour, the new museum, the mountain and the Festival halls.
From Mirabellplatz · Daily 9.15am and 2pm · from €70
Four hours by coach with a live guide: Mirabell and the Pegasus Fountain, Leopoldskron across the lake, the gazebo at Hellbrunn and the church at Mondsee.
Book the tourFrom Mirabellplatz 4 · Daily 9.30am · adults €50
About three and a half hours by bike, on paths the coaches cannot use, from Mirabell out to Leopoldskron and Frohnburg. Runs April to October.
Book a bikeHellbrunn, Salzburg · Daily 9.30am–5.30pm until 1 November · adults €8
The new museum beside the gazebo at Hellbrunn: the film, the musical and the real family, with costumes, photographs and a full-size gazebo you can walk into.
Plan a visitSt Leonhard, Grödig · 8.30am–5pm in October · adults €34 return
Eight minutes up the mountain from the film’s first and last shots. Departures on the hour and half hour.
Check timesHofstallgasse, Salzburg · Adults €7
About 50 minutes inside the Festival halls. Building work in the foyers limits the tours for now; check which halls are open.
See tour datesSalzburg
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The marionettes this autumn and winter, and a new production at the Landestheater from December.
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Take it home
Two original 1965 one-sheets from our store, Maria’s own book, two memoirs and the soundtrack LP.
An original 1965 US one-sheet, 27 × 41 in, linen-backed, near mint.
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View posterAn original 1965 US one-sheet, 27 × 41 in, near mint.
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View posterMaria Augusta Trapp
Maria’s own account, the book the musical and the film grew from.
Find the bookJulie Andrews
Her memoir of the Hollywood years.
Find the bookRodgers & Hammerstein, film cast · LP, RCA Victor, 1965
The soundtrack LP, sung by Julie Andrews and the cast.
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16 of 16 places · 17 of 17 Moments
Mirabellplatz, Salzburg
Up and down the steps, round the Pegasus Fountain.
Residenzplatz, Salzburg
Maria crosses the square and splashes the marble horses.
Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Salzburg
Maria passes the horse pond on her way to the Trapps.
Hofstallgasse, Salzburg
The family win first prize at the Festival’s folk-song choir competition; on screen they never collect it.
Below the Mönchsberg, Salzburg
The escape scenes.
Nonnberggasse, below the fortress
Maria Kutschera becomes a postulant at Nonnberg.
Maria and Georg von Trapp marry at Nonnberg Abbey.
Leopoldskronstraße 56–58, Salzburg
Pink lemonade, a rowing boat and an argument by the water.
Hellbrunner Allee 53, Salzburg
Maria arrives at the villa’s front gate.
Hellbrunn park, Fürstenweg, Salzburg
The duet in the gazebo, now at Hellbrunn.
Anif, south of Salzburg
Schloss Anif in the opening aerial shots.
Traunstraße, Salzburg-Aigen
The family home in Aigen, until 1938.
Cable car from St Leonhard, Grödig
Maria sings on the mountain as the film begins.
Werfen, Salzach valley
“Do-Re-Mi” with Hohenwerfen behind.
Mondsee, Upper Austria
The wedding, filmed at Mondsee and one of the first scenes shot.
St Gilgen, Salzkammergut
The film opens from the air over the lakes.
700 Trapp Hill Road, Stowe, Vermont
The family buy a farm in Stowe and later open it to guests.
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