Basilika St. Michael
Baroque-fronted lakeside basilica whose seven-part altar holds a medieval abbot's skeleton in golden robes.
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The guide to Basilika St. Michael in Salzburg traces a building that changed hands more than once: founded as Mondsee Abbey by a Bavarian duke in 748, dissolved by Emperor Leopold the Second in 1791, then taken over by field marshal Karl Philipp von Wrede, whose family ran the estate for generations. It then follows the church into an unexpected second life, when director Robert Wise arrived to film a wedding scene here for The Sound of Music in 1964. Look up at the seven-part reliquary altar above the rail while you listen, and picture the six hundred villagers in wedding clothes who once filled these pews for the camera.
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