2. St. Peter's District

St. Peter's District really is the oldest part of Salzburg. The first monks, headed by Saint Rupert, settled here. The rest of the city started to spread out slowly around the monastery. Today you can still see the catacombs cut in the rock of the Mönchsberg and originating from the year 1000 A.D.

St. Peter's cemetery is the oldest one in Austria still in use. Only priests and monks were buried here up to the year 1454. The arcades around the cemetery house family vaults from the 17th century with examples of local wrought iron work.

This was Rolf had his biggest scene in the movie, as he blows the whistle on the Trapp family. The confrontation between his earlier mentor, the captain, and the gripping tension of the Trapp family in hiding between the tombstones of St. Peter's make it a must see here in Salzburg.