Salzburg nixes Von Trapp hotel
The Austrian city of Salzburg has blocked plans to open a hotel in a former home of the Von Trapp family immortalized in “The Sound of Music.”
The “Villa Trapp” had been expected to open this year in a quiet, upscale Salzburg neighborhood. Area residents feared tourists would tie up traffic and make a nuisance of themselves, and on Wednesday the city’s urban planning committee took their side.
Hotel organizers said they would appeal the decision.
The home once belonged to the Von Trapps, the family made famous in the 1965 movie in which Julie Andrews played a nun-turned-nanny who cared for a widower’s seven children and fell in love with him during World War II.
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