Friedhof St. Peter (Petersfriedhof)
Salzburg's oldest cemetery, arcaded in wrought iron and Baroque family vaults sheltered beneath a cliff.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Petersfriedhof in Salzburg starts with the von Trapp family's hide-and-seek scene from The Sound of Music, filmed among tombs meant to look exactly like these, and follows why a working graveyard could never actually host a Hollywood crew. It turns from there to the real cemetery, settled by monks around the year 700, with arcaded family vaults and wrought-iron grilles that descendants still tend today. Walk the arcades slowly and look for how old the surviving tombstones really are.
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