No more Sound of Music hotel
2008-12-03 22:13
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Vienna - The Austrian city of Salzburg has blocked plans to open a hotel in a former home of the Von Trapp family immortalised in The Sound of Music after protests by neighbours.
The "Villa Trapp" had been expected to open this year in a quiet, upscale Salzburg neighbourhood.
Area residents had feared tourists would tie up traffic and make a nuisance of themselves.
Hotel organisers say they will appeal Wednesday's decision by the urban planning committee.
The home once belonged to the Von Trapps.
The family was 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.
The film altered some details of the family's history.
- AP