Vienna - Schloss Schonbrunn & Around (PDF Chapter)

This is the Schloss Schönbrunn & Around chapter from Lonely Planet’s Vienna guidebook.

Few sights in Vienna enthral like Schloss Schönbrunn. The vision of its imposing baroque facade, glowing like warm butter on a sunny afternoon, is not one you are likely to forget in a hurry.

• wander the gloriously over-the-top baroque state apartments and laze in the foun-tain-dotted gardens of Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna’s paean to the giddy, gilded late-Habsburg era
• maps
• dive into the sensual, colour-charged imagination of Klimt at Klimt Villa, a reproduction of his last studio built on the site of the original property
• transport
• wander in Empress Elisabeth’s footsteps at 19th-century Hermesvilla, romantically nestled in woodland.
• restaurants & accommodation

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