Salzburg City Council in Austria has rejected a bid to turn the Villa Trapp, the home of the family who inspired the 1965 film The Sound of Music starring Julie Andrews, into a hotel.
The council says it would have disturbed the well-heeled neighbours and caused traffic congestion (most of the visitors to Salzburg are Sound of Music fans apparently, despite it being the birthplace of Mozart).
The Von Trapps lived in the house from 1923 to 1938 before fleeing to America from the Nazis. Nazi Germany took over a mostly willing Austria in the so-called Anschluss ‘re-unification’ that year.
In the Second World War the villa was appropriated by Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler as one of his many stolen residences.
After the war it was bought by a missionary group who are still the owner and wanted to sell it to the hotel operator.
Not a lot seems to happen in Austria and clearly they want to keep it that way.