Schönbrunn Palace Schloss Schönbrunn is a former imperial 1,400-room Rococo summer residence in Vienna.
Queing to the palace - audio tour is also available with a variety of languages to choose from
- been there before, so just walked through thre palace this time.
The palace and gardens illustrate the tastes, interests,and aspirations of successive Habsburg monarchs.
Gorgeous topiaries everywhere!
Flower beds here and there in the garden.
The garden is open for public free - sporty people even running there,
why not as the surrounding is gorgeous, but the amount of tourists must be disturbing
The sculpted garden space between the palace and the Sun Fountain is called the Great Parterre.
Neptum-Brunnen Sun Fountain sculptored by Franz Anton Zauner in 1780.
32 sculptures are lining the Great Paterre.
Labyrinths near the zoo - admission fee to see and experience them.
Walked up to see the Gloriette.
The garden axis points towards a 60 meters higher hill, which since 1775 has been crowned by the Gloriette structure.
Maria Theresa decided Gloriette should be designed to glorify Habsburg power and the Just War
and thereby ordered to recycle "otherwise useless stone" which was left.
The Gloriette is a Neo-Classical arcade designed by Ferdinand von Hohenberger in 1775.
Fantastic views from the Gloriette down to the palace and over Vienna!
There is a spacious cafe in Gloriette - had lunch there.
Didn"t have this plate of sausages, mustard and horseradish...
Instead had a pannini with tomato and mozzarella - nice!
UNESCO catalogued Schönbrunn Palace on the World Heritage List in 1996, together with its gardens, as a remarkable Baroque ensemble and example of synthesis of the arts.
Wisteria.
The gardens and palace have been the location for various movies, such as the Sissi trilogy in 1950s,
in A Breath of Scandal with Sophia Loren and briefly in James Bond's The Living Daylights.
Also the movie "The Great Race" was filmed there in 1965.
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