Visiting Austria's Villa Trapp
The Sound of Music Family Home Opens its Doors in Aigen Salzburg
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music song "My Favorite Things" includes brown paper packages wrapped up with string, girls in white dresses and schnitzel with noodles. Villa Trapp has the potential to deliver to musical theatre and film fans their Favourite Things as the authentic property’s grounds joins Salzburg’s The Sound of Music Tour from 2008. Refurbished as a hotel, Villa Trapp, the von Trapps’ former family home, will also offer dinner to hotel guests and open its chapel for weddings.
Salzburg’s Musical Connections
Salzsburg tourism celebrates its musical legacies. Cobbled streets near to the central square of Salzburg shout out their appreciation of the classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Chocolate Shop will not be disappointing.
For more than 15 years, the horse drawn carriages have departed from the central square of Salzburg to meet visitors’ desires to see the sights that inspired the familiar Robert Wise film production of The Sound of Music chronicling Maria von Trapp’s story.
Villa Trapp and its Gardens
The von Trapp family lived in Villa Trapp in the Aigen district of Salzburg Austria from 1923 to 1938. Built in 1863, the 22-room building has been restored to its outwardly yellow colour that will be familiar to appreciation societies of the 1965 Robert Wise film production of The Sound of Music. Closed to the outside world since 1939, the Hotel Villa Trapp aims to communicate its historical significance with a ground-flour exhibition. The parklands around the Villa Trapp will be of interest to see the stone bench where Maria and Baron Georg von Trapp used to sit. Today Villa Trapp gardens are enclosed with a white wall and claims that it is the largest privately owned park in Salzburg Austria.
Events at Villa Trapp
From 2009, it is expected that a summer night’s charity ball, an annual event, will take place at Hotel Villa Trapp. Weddings can take place in the large room that was converted into a chapel during Maria’s residence. The film set - Gazebo – where the duet “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” between Rolf and Liesl is performed is located as a Pavillion by the Villa Trapp. Dinner, for up to 20 guests, will be served in the drawing room of the Villa Trapp.
Opening of Villa Trapp in Salzburg
The Villa Trapp opened for a visit from Maria von Trapp and other guests in Aigen, Salzburg, Austria on 25 July 2008 who stayed for several nights. The Villa Trapp Hotel is expected to be open to hotel guests from October 2008 with reservations possible from the end of August 2008.
The hotel and park, with its social history of Maria and the von Trapp family, the popularity of The Sound of Music as a Hollywood Musical film and on musical theatre stages worldwide and the exhibition for filmtourism, a visit or a stay at Villa Trapp should be "Something Good".
Villa Trapp GmbH, The Original Sound of Music Family Home, Traunstrasse 34, 5026 - Salzburg/Aigen Telephone/Fax: +43 (0) 662/630 860.
