MARTÍNEZ: "The Sound Of Music" was filmed 60 years ago in Salzburg, Austria. That small city at the foot of the Alps is getting ready for a big celebration next year.

Fans can arrange the Original Sound of Music Tour, where people are escorted to all the major film locations on a bus. The owner of Panorama Tours, Stefan Herzel, explains his unique connection to ...

IF YOU GO Salzburg can be combined with a visit to Austria or Bavaria, reachable from Munich, Germany, by train in 90 minutes or two-and-a-half hours from Vienna.

Text: SALZBURG, Austria - Move over Mozart. Toes in Salzburg are tapping to a new beat as residents finally embrace the Hollywood musical that put them on the map nearly half a century ago.

According to city tourism officials, about 40 per cent of the 300,000 tourists who visit the Austrian city every year are fans of 1965 film The Sound of Music.

SALZBURG, Austria - Move over Mozart. Toes in Salzburg are tapping to a new beat as residents finally embrace the Hollywood musical that put them on the map nearly half a century ago.

"This is why I came to Austria," she said recently, as her Sound of Music tour bus set out for its first stop — Leopoldskron Lake (where Maria and the children capsized their boat).

Updated August 17, 2024 at 06:14 AM ET SALZBURG, Austria — Dhananjay Raval first saw The Sound of Music, as a young child.