Frohnburg Castle
Baroque summer palace whose courtyard doubled as a film family's villa entrance in a beloved musical.
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This guide to Frohnburg Castle in Salzburg starts at the gate with a simple question: would you recognize it from a film you've watched a dozen times? It follows a film crew who spent ten days in June 1965 dressing this quiet baroque courtyard, built by Prince Archbishop Max Gandolf in the 1660s as a summer retreat, as the front door of a family that never actually lived here. Behind you, the grounds still carry the orangeries and orchards a small army of gardeners once tended, leisure architecture long before it was movie architecture.
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