A crisp morning in Salzburg: the van’s engine hums as you slide past baroque façades, the Salzach river glinting silver. Within minutes you’re out of town, the landscape opening into valley and ridge. Schloss Leopoldskron sits by a pale lake, its façade recalling the von Trapps’ quiet drama; at Hellbrunn a small, romantic gazebo still frames the same choreography captured on film. The tour then follows the Salzach River valley, cathedral spires traded for limestone cliffs and alpine pasture—Hohenwerfen Castle punctuates the route before the meadow near Werfen reveals itself, an open stage of grass and mountains where The Hills Are Alive was filmed.