The beautiful Mirabell gardens Bashny.Net

In the Austrian Salzburg has numerous historical attractions and one of the main Palace and complex regular the Mirabell gardens. The history of the construction of this luxurious Palace is associated with the romantic forbidden love.





Once upon a time, in the XVI century, the local Archbishop Prince wolf Dietrich von raitenau fell in love with the beautiful Salome Alt. Times were tough, but not so much that the Almighty Archbishop could not indulge our passions and weaknesses. So he lived with his mistress quite openly, moreover built for her an elegant residence near Salzburg. The woman was surrounded by comfort and luxury, the Palace it caused the admiration and envy of his contemporaries. Salome gave birth to von raitenau half a dozen illegitimate heirs, the love was strong and passionate, however after the death of the Archbishop in 1617, the Palace of the "depraved women" was selected in favor of the poor, that is, in favor of the Church. The Salzburg archbishops with great pleasure have turned the air Palace of pink stone in their permanent residence.





The subsequent fate of the Palace was quite prosperous, except for the fact that every Archbishop felt obliged to finish in the Palace, anything, to break a new piece of the garden or to create any architectural reminder on. In the period when the Palace hosted by the Archbishop Anton Harrach (this was in 1721 – 1727) residence, first, has been tastefully combined into a single Palace-Park unstable, and secondly, received a new name – since then the complex is called Mirabel. Another hundred years all was quiet and good, but in 1818 the Palace suddenly burned almost completely. To have survived only Grand staircase, Marble hall and chapel at the castle. The Church did not give up and rebuilt his residence. This was done in a more relaxed style, the composition is restrained and elegant, although has not lost its luxury. However, what remained from Raitenau is amazing. Marble hall critics consider one of a kind – his equal for beauty anywhere in the world.





Today the Palace is used by the city administration, it is the seat of the mayor of Salzburg – the Church eventually gave the complex to the people. Part of the castle open for tours – there is a Museum of Baroque art. But that's not all. The Palace itself is, of course, fine, but he is the main attraction of the complex. The main gardens. Luxury Mirabell gardens – the pride of Austria. Classical Park structure, the Baroque determine the shape gardens. Stone lions and fountains, garden Dwarfs, maze, and outdoor theatre with hedges instead of the scenes, vases and sculptures, elaborately trimmed trees and flowerbeds of different shapes, graceful stone balustrade, well-designed system of paths – in short, the Mirabell gardens are hard to describe. They need to see.





Traces of romantic history von raitenau and Salome Alt and in the garden is a sculpture-fountain "Suzanne in the font". With Salome in the late XVII century, unknown sculptor copied and Susanna. Originally the sculpture stood in a private garden of the Archbishop, but then it was moved to the garden – it was surprising that the memory of this love kept the successors of the Archbishop. In 1848, the Mirabell gardens was opened to the public – this popular step was taken by the Emperor Franz Joseph.





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