Day 10 : Salzburg

We started the day with seeing the sound of music sites.  It's amazing how many different places were used to film.  Even the house was a couple different places. 

First stop was the lake view side of the house gardens.  This is where they fell into the river out of the boat.  It's private property so you can only view it from the other side.

Next stop was the front of the house.  There was this palace on the outskirts of town that served as the front of the house.  It was decorated with dates for Christmas like and advent calendar.  The grounds had some great walking areas and e first time we really saw ornaments.  And they were gigantic.

Then walking around the grounds they had moved the gazebo to a new location here.  Originally it was else where.

But really gotta love the yellow house with the Christmas decorated trees with bright red balls.

Next stop was the treed drive the kids were hanging from we took a long walk down this to some other palace like houses that not sure their significance.

But they were all yellow as well.  Guess maybe this area is a little more conservative with their colors.

After those stops we took a funicular up to the castle.  This place has been enhanced for centuries.  

During recent excavations they found roman coins in the lower portion of the castle.  In an upper section during renovations hey found covered archways.  Kinda cool to look at old stuff that they remodeled by hiding the older things.  

Funny because it really was e best way to preserve something hide it in a wall.  Reminds me of how you find old wood floors in houses underneath era carpet or other things.

And then there was the armor and torture stuff.  Bad picture but checkout this helmets they shamed people with.

Before we headed down we took a tour up a tower and had some great sunset opportunities.

Then back down the spiral stairs, and down long hallways with wee little windows.

Final stop of the evening was a marionette, we saw Mozarts Magic Flute.  It was in German with an occassional sub title off to the side that explained the jist of the scene.  Would have preferred to have more of a translation.  But it was neat, at the beginning a stage hand was setting up and a few marionettes were following here around like little people. One scene had animals and there was a playful goose and lion that made a little scene.