Schloss Schönnbrunn

This is the main summer home of the Hapsburg ruling family of Austria. This rococo palace of 1,441 rooms was built in it's current form in the 18th century by Maria Theresa.
The pictures are all exterior as no photography is allowed inside the palace. There are lots of places on line where you can find interior pictures. I will say that the palace decor reminded me of some of the palaces in Russia that were built at about the same time.
The 1st picture looks at the front of the Schloss. The 2nd picture is around back looking across the gardens to the hill with the Gloriette on top. The Gloriette is the 3rd picture. In general, a gloriette is a building in a garden on a hill. This dates to the late 18th century except that this is a reconstruction replacing the damage in world war 2.
The 4th picture is of an archway built in the fashion of copying damaged architectural features of the ancient world.
The last 2 pictures are more gardens. (There are lots!). In the 5th picture, the tall building houses tropical plants while the barely visible one story building behind it is houses desert plants.Weiterlesen