Schonbrunn Palace and garden

Unesco's Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization recognized Austria's Schonbrunn Palace and Garden as a World Cultural Heritage in 1996.

Schonbrunn Palace, built by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, is one of Austria's most important palaces of culture.

The palace was built in Baroque architecture and is a summer getaway of the Austrian royal so this palace is also known as the Summer Palace . Schonbrunn Palace consists of 1,441 rooms and has an extremely large flower garden with beautiful architecture. Although so large, the strange thing is that the palace does not have a kitchen. All cooking for the royal family was done in another building and food was brought into the palace every day.

The fame of the palace is of course because of the magnificent beauty and magnificence here. But besides that, the Schonbrunn Palace and Gardens are also known for another reason: in the 19th century, the palace was the residence of Emperor Franz Josefl I with his wife, Queen Elizabeth of Bavaria. . Queen Elizabeth is well known to people around the world as Queen Sissi .

In addition to the extravagantly decorated rooms and unique Baroque style architecture, the Schonbrunn Palace also has two extremely impressive flower gardens . A flower garden built in French style and a flower garden built in British style. Also on the palace site is the oldest old zoo in the world that still exists, 1 stables and 10 greenhouses to plant trees.

The entire Schonbrunn palace is surrounded by vast flower gardens. The flower garden behind the palace is built in French style with the name Great Parterre planting colorful flowers of the season. In the end there are always two kinds of red and white flowers representing the Austrian flag with two colors of red and white stripes. The two sides of the garden have 32 carved statues arranged and arranged beautifully. It is very attractive to any visitor to this palace that is in the garden with a maze planted with a porcelain plant and pruned and cared for very carefully. In the middle of the garden there was a fountain with a system of nozzles and a lake filled with water lilies.

On the hill next to the Great Parterre garden, the talented architect Fischer built the Gloriette cottage area. Above the cottage area is the words "JOSEPHO II. AVGVSTO ET MARIA THERESIA IMPERANTIB. ERECT ." From this small town, you can see the whole city of Vienna in Austria. This makes the palace's flower garden truly a great installation art piece - a giant flower painting adorned the city.

After Austria ended the constitutional monarchy, Schönbrunn Palace was preserved and preserved the status quo to this day.

In 1953 the Schonbrunn palace and garden were introduced by producer Kurt Ulrich in the film " Queen Sissi, " a classic cinematic work about Elizabeth Sissi 's life with many events and tragedies. Because of the ancient beauty and extremely beautiful architecture, Schonbrunn palace and garden were chosen by many filmmakers as a place to film their works. In addition to the classic " Queen Sissi " movie, it is also the location for filming films such as: A breath of scandal by starred Sophia Loren, or James Bond - The living daylights, or Marie Antoinette's movie Movie star Sophia Coppola . The Schonbrunn palace and garden are also home to two world-famous leaders President Kennedy and leader Kruschew meeting during the 1991 summit.

Today Schönbrunn becomes Austria's most famous tourist destination in particular and Europe in general, and also hosts important cultural events for the people of Vienna. On average, this world cultural heritage attracts about 8 million visitors.