Trip Plan
Two palaces play one house in the film. Leopoldskron is the back, with the lake terrace, and Frohnburg is the front, with the gate. Leopoldskron is a hotel and Frohnburg belongs to the Mozarteum, so you see both from outside, which is where the film shot them anyway.
The first three stops are part of my daily walk, two to three hours on foot from the old town. By bike, Frohnburg is ten minutes from the old town or from Leopoldskron. Bus 25 runs past all four and stops in front of the Untersberg cable car, and a Salzburg Card covers the bus, the trick fountains at Hellbrunn and the cable car.
Ordered route
The sequence and every stop note are preserved exactly as authored. Hover a stop to see it on the map; click a marker for the details.
The back of the von Trapp house: the boat scene and the Captain hearing his children sing were filmed on its lake terrace. Only hotel guests get into the grounds now, so walk around the Weiher to the view from the far shore.
The front of the von Trapp house, where Maria arrives singing I Have Confidence and the Captain tears down the Nazi flag. The gate and the wall are right on Hellbrunner Allee, and you often hear Mozarteum students practising inside.
The gazebo from Sixteen Going on Seventeen, moved here from Leopoldskron after fans kept trespassing to see it. You cannot go in since a visitor danced on the benches and got hurt, but it is free, and you can still dance around it.
The opening meadow is private farmland across the German border, and the escape mountain is hard to reach, so I send people up the Untersberg instead: bus 25 to the valley station, then the cable car. The real family never walked over these mountains; they left by train.
Editorial connections
The lakes from the opening flight, the church where Maria marries the Captain, and the Do-Re-Mi picnic meadow. Two days out of Salzburg: three stops east in the lake district, easiest by car, and two south in Werfen, forty minutes by train.
The Sound of Music bus tours skip the old town because it is pedestrian-only, so this is the half of the film they miss. Fifteen stops from the Do-Re-Mi steps to the gate of Nonnberg Abbey, in the order I walk them. Two to four hours, depending on how many scenes you re-enact.
