Salzburg

04 July to 09 July 2025

Looking down the Salzach River at the Kapuzinerberg

Wild Man (or Green Man) Fountain from 1620 A.D.

Sign on the bridge across the Salzach River.

Can you spot the Anthony?

On Friday, Julie and Anthony take the ORIGINAL Sound of Music tour.

Untersberg mountain, rising up the distance

Schloss Leopoldskron

The pond in front of this palace was used for the canoe scene in the Sound of Music. From 1918 to 1939, the palace was owned by Max Reinhardt, who was a noted theatre director and co-founder of the Salzburg Festival. The character of Max in the Sound of Music was inspired/based upon him.

The scene in the SoM, where Maria and the Captain are having a conversation, she in front of the pond and he in front of the house was actually filmed in two different locations. Her scenes were here, his at the Schloss Hellbrunn (more pics later on)

The Gazebo, Fifteen going on sixteen scene was filmed here.

Schloss Hellbrunn from the road. Maria approached the palace on this lane.

The Abbey

The SoM director, Robert Wise, asked the Abbess if they could film inside the Abbey. She said no. Then, Well…. In the end they were allowed to film in front of the Abbey (Maria leaving the Abbey for her nanny job) and the crypt scene.

Views from the bus. Left a aircraft museum. Right, the Redbull Headquarters (under repair)

The Redbull HQ building had something that looked like giant ticks pulling it. We missed getting a picture, but it was kind of creepy.

The tour took us to a couple of beautiful lakes that we do not remember the names of. It was North/East of Salzburg. Maybe Wolfgangsee.

Basilica of St. Michael in Mondsee, Austria.

The Basilica of St Michael was used for the interior shots of the wedding in SoM.

Our tour guide Simon, note the lederhosen shorts with the Hawaiian shirt. Awesome! Anthony asked Simon about ghost tours in Salzburg. He said that ghost tours were not popular in Germanic speaking countries, probably because the tours are very literal and historical. This fit our experience with the ghost tour in Berlin.

His name may not have been Simon. Also, this picture was taken without his permission.

The following shots are from the garden used in the Do-Re-Mi scene of SoM.

The kids may or may not have patted one of these fellows on the head. The original dwarf may have been removed due to all the patting of tourists in the following years.

That afternoon, Julie and Anthony took a bus to Untersberg and caught the gondola up to the mountain top.

Two of the band members had taken very cool pictures from a mountain on the German/Austrian border. We were thinking they may have been on Untersberg, since we knew they’d been to Salzberg.

Very cool mountain!!!!! Not on the German/Austrian border. Not even close.

Still having hope that we were at the spot, we were trying to get to the top of the next rise. Sadly, we were running out of time and Julie was just too slow, so Anthony said goodbye to Julie, and went on without her. She turned around and started back to the gondola.

Julie and Anthony took the last cable car off the mountain. It was packed and the ride was more than a little scary.

Julie and Anthony’s bus ride into the Salzburg olde city passed through a neighborhood called Maxglaner. Historically, Maxglaner was a Romanish (Gypsy) enclave. The Little German Band (and Dancers) has a new piece called “Maxglaner” which is upbeat and one of Anthony’s favorites.

This punk Mozart sign also appeared on front of a hotel along the bus route into the olde stadt. Anthony enjoyed driving past it at least twice each day.

6 July 2025, Julie and Anthony visited the Salzburg castle, overlooking the city.

Photos on the way up to the castle.

Left: Salzburg Cathedral

Right: “Do Re Mi” Bridge - In THE movie, the Von Trappe family sang the famous song crossing the Mozartsteg on this bridge.

The wooden plank was original!! Put there to protect the stone.

The White Lady is the ghost of Fortress Hohensalzburg

After the fortress we went to a marionette museum

The Monchsberg lift

Anthony was FASCINATED by this structure. Sadly, we did not have the time to go up (or down) it.

Julie and Anthony took the tram ride down from Hohensalzburg into the old stadt.

Julie and Anthony ate lunch at the famous Stiegl-Keller restaurant, which afforded terrific views of the city.

Sadly, the food was NOT all that good.

After the fortress and lunch, we visited the Mozart Museum

Mozart, Mozart, his wife Constanze, Mozart

Mozart’s death bed

Maybe his childhood violin

From his opera, The Magic Flute

Mozart’s skull is (allegedly) kept at the Mozart Museum. Sadly, it is no longer on display as it creeped out the museum docents.

Not only was Schloss Hellbrunn used for exterior shots of the Captain’s home in SoM, but it also boasts a wonderfully bizarre water garden and trick fountains.

Prince-Archbishop Markus Sittikus built Hellbrunn Palace in the early 1600s. He was fascinated with Greek mythology and had a water garden (with trick fountains) built show casing Greek myths.

Not shown was a table, where he would entertain guest. At a queue from him, fountains would soak all the guests, leaving him dry.

There was another fixture that also had trick fountains that would soak unsuspecting guests.

Last image of the Fortress. You really can see it from EVERYWHERE!!

On Monday, Julie and Anthony take to the highway.

Tram to Berg Hohenwerfen

We saw a falconry exhibition. Totally in German, but still very cool. And not all falcons.

The Witch Museum

We took a tour of the castle

View of the Salzach River from the bell tower

We saw a lot of these, or variations thereof. Tunnels to keep the road clear of avalanches, mudslides or other calamities. We couldn’t help but wonder if something like this could be used on I40, west of Asheville.

We took a drive up the Grossglockner Alpine Highway.

Julie was very happy. Anthony was happy too, but I think Julie may have been happier.

The weather was here

We drove to Bad Gastein for dinner. Bad Gastein is famous for having three waterfalls divide the town in half.

Anthony enjoyed his dinner very much, Julie not so much.

If you want to hear a fun story of us getting back to Salzburg, just ask.

The next day we drove to Hallstatt, famous for beautiful lake views.

Day Two driving around Salzburg

We could not find the base of the funicular, and ran out of time. Sigh.

We had a very good lunch in Hallstaat

We left Salzburg on Wednesday, heading towards Innsbruck. On the way, we stopped at The Eagle’s Nest.

It was agreed, before The Eagle’s Next could be made into a National Site, that it would not be a place that could be used to glorify the Third Reich. Besides the view, there is a restaurant. No tours. We think they did a good job.

We had dinner in Zell am See

04 July to 09 July 2025

Vienna