The historic Schloss Leopoldskron has been open as a hotel since 2014 Much like those famous hills, the Austrian palace that inspired the von Trapp family villa is still alive with the sound of music.

The iconic Von Trapp kids from the Sound of Music are now completely unrecognisable, almost sixty years on from the date the ...

Another location that many people connect with The Sound of Music is the Horse Pond, which is next to the Festival Building. Fischer von Erlach, an Austrian architect, constructed it in 1695.

One of the original cast remembers the show as a powerful experience. The opening scene of The Sound of Music remains fixed in Tim Crouse's mind. But he's not recalling Andrews striding across the ...

Related: Behind the Scenes on 'The Sound of Music', 57 Years Later Similarly, the palace’s terrace and a gate overlooking the pond and flanked by two distinctive hippocampus — or merhorse ...