Salzburg Photos: St. Peter's Cemetery
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Speaking of "The Sound of Music" in the text to our previous photo: This picture
was taken on the Petersfriedhof, the ancient cemetery associated with the
Erzstift St. Peter monastery. Tour guides often like to tell the story that the
cemetery scenes in "The Sound of Music" were filmed here; this information is
wrong, all cemetery scenes were shot indoors in a studio in California. Don't
believe any of these bloody tour guides telling you anything else. There are
more lies and myths, though: This picture shows the graves of Sebastian
Stumpfegger and his wives. According to a popular local legend, he killed them
by tickling them to death. Which is of course not true - the man was in fact a
highly reputable artist and mason that worked at the court of the Prince
Archbishop and was involved with various buidligng projects around the
Salzburger Dom Cathedral. It is a good story, though, which is why we have
included it in our "fun facts about Salzburg" section. You find it there for
further details.
photo (c) visit-salzburg.net
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