Schloss Leopoldskron in the city of Salzburg, in Austria

 “The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years...." — The Sound of Music,” sung by Maria (Julie Andrews) in the opening scene

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(in Leopoldskron-Moos, a southern district of the city of Salzburg, in Austria) Schloss Leopoldskron is a rococo palace and a national historic monument in Leopoldskron-Moos. The palace, and its surrounding seven hectare (~17 acre) park, is located on the lake known as Leopoldskroner Weiher. In 1736, Salzburg prince-archbishop Leopold Anton Freiherr von Firmian built Schloss Leopoldskron as the family residence. Since 1965, Schloss Leopoldskron has been well known far beyond Austria’s borders as an original shooting location for the world-famous movie “The Sound of Music.“ (The grand rococo palace is where the lake scene was filmed in The Sound of Music. Its Venetian Room was the blueprint for the Trapps' lavish ballroom, where the children bid their farewells.) In 1918, the palace was bought by theater impresario Max Reinhardt, who restored it and came up with the idea of a Salzburg Festival within its walls. (The palace is a 15-minute walk from Festung Hohensalzburg -- the formidable clifftop fortress and the mountains beyond; it's a backdrop that did the lordly prince-archbishops and Maria proud.)