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The Upper Belvedere was erected in 1721-22 like pavilion for the festivities. At the end of 1700 was arranged the imperial collection of art. From 1904 to 1914 it was residence of the archduk Francisco Ferdinand, hereditary prince, assassinated to Sarajevo. In 1955 was signed the Osterreichischer Staatsvertrag, corporate charter of the Republic of Austria who put aim to the ally occupation. The palace has two monumental facades with more pavilions and bodies; the one toward the garden is characterized from the balcony to three arched on double columns of the body centers, from the balustrade with statues and from the octagonal pavilions to the extremity of the wings.Two lateral courtyards give approached the posterior garden, witha great bathtub, on which this points out the beautiful income of honor, with a shape made with glasses, preceded from two symmetrical widths rampe with perron in its centers and adorned with sphinxes and horses. From the posterior garden, on the left, there is the Alpengarten, ancient alpine botanical garden, that its collects beyond 3600 different types of mountain flora, coming from all the world. Inside the Upper Belvedere, there is the main section of Galerie Des XIX und XX Jabrhunderts, that it offers an immense panorama on the Austrian art from the neoclassic period to today with the most beautiful painting of Klimt and Munch. Leave a Comment
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