More Salzburg
Thursday, December 21st, 2006After the Sound of Music tour, we were dropped off at — and walked through — the Mirabell Gardens, which were also used for filming the Sound of Music. Then, we crossed the Salzach River and walked through the atmospheric, old St. Peter’s Cemetery, complete with iron-gated tombs that were the basis for the cemetery scene in the S.O.M. movie. We continued our walk up to the massive fortress and, then, around to Nonnberg Abbey, which was the actual — and film — abbey that Maria was preparing to become a nun. We continued to walk — yes, we did a lot of walking today (it’s cheap!) — all the way around the mountain the fortress sits on and along the river bluff for a ways.
We left Salzburg the next morning for Vienna, transferring trains in Innsbruck.
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