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Von Trapp's "Sound of Music" villa to become hotel

Hotel director Marianne Dorfer stands in frontVilla Trapp, the original Sound of Music family home, in Salzburg May 13, 2008. Georg von Trapp and his family used to live in this house from 1923 till their emigration to the U.S. in the late 1938. The original von Trapp family home will be reopened as a hotel in July to give people for around 100 euros ($155) a night the chance to lay their head to rest where the von Trapp family once lived, get married in the house's chapel or have a Sound of Mus

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - "The Sound of Music," one of Hollywood's greatest money-spinners, will scale new heights when the original von Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as a hotel in July.

The Villa Trapp hotel will give visitors a chance to sleep in the family's former bedrooms or get married in their chapel.

And the gazebo where Liesl, eldest of the von Trapp daughters in the film, and her boyfriend Rolf meet secretly and perform "Sixteen going on 17" will also be available as a self-assembly construction set.