Fans of the 1965 film The Sound of Music are in for a treat when a hotel of the same name opens.

The hotel is a conversion of the original von Trapp family home in the Austrian city of Salzburg.

The developers have made very few alterations to the building and die-hard fans have the opportunity to sleep in the family's former bedrooms or get married in their chapel.

The famous musical starred Julie Andrews as the aspiring nun Maria and Christopher Plummer as Baron von Trapp.

The 94-year-old Maria Von Trapp on visiting her former home said recently: "Our whole life is in here, in this house...especially here in the stairwell, where we always used to slide down the railings."

She added: "We sang a lot and we sang all the time. We didn't even want to go for a walk alone, because we wanted to sing all the time together."

The villa in Salzburg was taken over by Nazi security chief Heinrich Himmler, who used it as a home close to the Austrian Alps until 1945.

After the war, a missionary order took over the home, agreeing to relinquish it for use as a hotel.