Fräulein Maria´s Bicycle tour visits the main attractions from the film the "Sound of Music". What makes our tour so unique is that you get to experience it all up close. We recommend that you watch the film before the tour so that the scenes from the movie stay fresh in your memory! The main characters of The Sound of Music are members of an actual family, the von Trapps, who successfully toured the world with their choral concerts.      

The first scene takes place at the Nonnberg Abbey in Austria in 1938. All the nuns are pursuing their respective tasks, but the postulant Maria is not with them, for she is singing and running on the mountain top enjoying the beauty of nature. The nuns, and the mother Abbess particulary, are consderably disturbed about her, since they are convinced she is not ready to enter upon a life dedicated solely to religion. The mother Abbess confesses that there are many pleasures in life which she shares with Maria, but for Maria´s sake she decides to send the postulant away to serve as temporary governess for the seven children of Captain Georg von trapp, a retired Austrian Naval officer, and a widower.                                                                                                                                                Maria comes to his household and completly wins over the children´s affection, particulary after she entertains them and allays their fears during a thunderstorm. She teaches the children to love music, and especially to sing. And she can be uniquely sympathetic to the oldest of the children, Liesl, when she gets involved in her first love affair with the village boy, Rolf Gruber.                                                                                                                                                                                  The Captain brings his fiance Elsa Schraeder from Vienna, who encourages him to give a huge party. After the children bid the guests good night, Maria becomes suddenly aware that she has fallen in love with her employer. Horrified, she flees from the villa back to the abbey, where the Mother Abbess encourages her to face her problems and seek her destiny.                                                 Returning to the villa, she finds that the Captain and his fiance have separated.                                      The romance of Maria and the Captain now develops rapidly. They get married in a ceremony at the abbey. After returning from their honeymoon, the Nazis, who by now have invaded Austria, summon the Captain back to naval duty. An avowed anti-Facist, the Captain resolutely refuses to do so. He arranges to flee from the villa with his wife and children. With the Nazis in pursuit, the Trapps hide in the churchyard of the Abbey, and then make their way to freedom on foot over the mountains.