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Belvedere: Oberes Belvedere (Upper Belvedere)
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  • The Upper Belvedere was the summer residence of Prinz Eugen (Prince Eugene of Savoy). The palace was erected between 1721 and 1722; the interior decoration was completed the following year. The garden palace primarily served the purpose of pomp and display. This is reflected in the elegant sala terrena (today the entrance hall), the grand staircase, the magnificent Marble Hall, rooms sumptuously embellished with frescos by Carlo Carlone, ceiling paintings by Giacomo del Po and the chapel with the exquisite altarpiece by Francesco Solimena. In 1752 Empress Maria Theresia acquired the palace from the prince's heiress. It was under Maria Theresia that the palace was first named Belvedere. In 1919 the palace passed into the possession of the Republic of Austria. In 1944 and 1945 both Upper and Lower Belvedere were badly damaged in air-raids. The Austrian State Treaty was signed in 1955 in the Marble Hall.

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  • Phone: +43 1 79 55 71 40
  • Directions: Tramways : D, O, 18 (Schloss Belvedere) Bus : 13A (Sudbahnhof)
  • Website: www.belvedere.at

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    Belvedere: Upper Belvedere
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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.

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    Belvedere: Belvedere Palace
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  • Updated By pili on October 19, 2003
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  • Upper Belvedere Palace - Vienna
    Upper Belvedere Palace
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    It consists of two separate buildings, one at the foot of the hill and the other at the top. The Upper Belvedere houses a gallery of 19th- and 20th-century Viennese art, featuring works by Klimt (including his world-famous painting ‘The Kiss’), Kokoschka, Schiele, Waldmuller, and Makart; the Lower Belvedere has a Baroque museum together with exhibits of Austrian art of the Middle Ages.

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    Belvedere: Unteres Belvedere
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  • Unteres Belvedere is the lower building - a lot smaller than the upper palace, but also with some great halls and ornate rooms with plenty of baroque paintings. Unteres Belvedere is next to Palais Schwarzenberg, that is one of the most exclusive hotels in Austria. The most interesting room in Unteres Belvedere is the marble-room in the centre and it shows a copy of the beautiful Providentia-fountain on Neuer Markt in Vienna. It dates back to 1739 and in Belvedere you may see the original sculptures made by Georg Raphael Donner: Providentia (goddess of providence)in the centre and around her 4 sculptures symbolizing the 4 most important rivers flowing into the Danube. The fountain in Belvedere looks like brand new, the one in Neuer Markt became grey and green already...

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  • Directions: You may get to Unteres Belvedere by tram #13A and take the 1st exit after Schwarzenbergplatz. You may as well walk down the park from Oberes Belvedere. Next U-bahnstation is Suedbahnhof in a distance of 1000 meters.

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    Belvedere: BELVEDERE PALACES
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  • Also located in the center of the city another beautiful palace to see is Belvedere.The two Belvedere Palaces,one facing the other,and the park between,were designed by Lukas von Hildebrandt as an integral architecture artwork. Now is one of most visited places in Vienna,here also you'll find two nice museums to see:MEDIEVAL ART MUSEUM,and BAROQUE ART MUSEUM,located in upper Beldevere.Don't miss the beautiful gardens here.

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    Belvedere: Belvedere, the far side (apologies to Larsen)
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  • I'd sort of done what I wanted to do in Vienna and, on the last day, I simply caught a tram one way and a train in the opposite direction. This was the result of my tram trip. Had I done my research better I would have gone here first and recommend that you do just that.

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    Belvedere: It's all different
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  • A ture palace from any angle - Vienna
    A ture palace from any angle
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    Sometimes in Europe I have to pinch myself to believe I'm seeing what I actually came to see. In Australia we don't really have seasons like Europe. Deciduous trees are thin on the ground (and in the ground for that matter) so what you see is what you get; generally. In Europe the white velvet of the winter snows can paint a vastly different, though just as pretty, picture to that in your brochure. Here the fountain might as well be an ice skating rink and the verdant landscaped lawns have disappeared.

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    Belvedere: THE GATE
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  • Passing through this beautiful gate,you'll reach the Beldevere Palaces and gardens.Is the perfect place to make some good photos.Unfortunatelly is not allowed to take any photos or videos inside all these palaces,the gardens is the only place where you can take the photos that you want.

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    Belvedere: Belvedere -Garden
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  • The garden that joins the Inferior Belvedere to the Upper Belvedere was arranged to the French in 1700-25 from the French Dominique Girard, with statues, fountains, bathtubs and scales: it is offers a wide panorama on the city. The perspective game of the lengthened rectangular shape is emphasized from the three terraces that follow the slope, each of them adorned from different fountains: the firtst, to wall, has got a great shell supported from feminine figures, follow two symmetrical bathtubs adorned from a group of scupluters in parterre intermediate and a third fountainwith a bathtub that exceeds previous the grassy slope the higher level that it is adorned with a twin circular river basins.

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    Belvedere: Inside and outside the Belvedere
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  • Updated By Manara on September 15, 2003
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    Tourist flock to this place especially because of the works of art exhibited inside. However this palace, built at the beginning of the 18th century, deserves a visit for its architecture and its gardens.

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  • Directions: You can get there with the tram D.
  • Website: www.belvedere.at

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