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with the Sound of Music! Salzburg is the home of Mozart, magnificent churches and Suchar Cake, a rich chocolate cake that the locals rave about. It is also the place where many of the exterior scenes for the movie, "Sound of Music" were filmed. One afternoon Sherri and I took a tour and saw Mirabell Gardens - Sherri stood on the steps where the song, "Do-Re-Mi"was filmed; saw the gazebo which was copied and used in the film (we kissed in front of it, just like Lisle and Rolf and the Col. and Maria) and also traveled to parts of the Salzkammergut countryside where we saw the church used in the wedding. Our guide told us that the house that the Von Trapp family lived in the film was actually two different houses. One house was used for the "front yard"shots and a second house for the back patio and lake shots. Above is the house that was used for all those famous patio shots - drinking lemonade, playing ball, and so forth. Yes, Julie Andrews fell in that lake! The house is privately owned so we were able to see it by looking back across the lake. I'm not much of a photographer but I thought the picture above turned out pretty well.
