Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna, Austria

Visit duration: 1 hr 30 min Editorial visit time estimate

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Schönbrunn Palace Park

The Schönbrunn Palace Park is the garden of the Habsburgs' summer palace in Vienna. Its French garden was planned in 1695 by Jean Trehet, a disciple of André Le Nôtre, and the sculpted space between the palace and the Neptune Fountain is called the Great Parterre. UNESCO listed the palace together with its gardens as a World Heritage Site in 1996, as a remarkable Baroque ensemble. Since 1992 palace and gardens have been run by the Schloss Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H., owned by the Republic of Austria.

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What's inside

The park holds many features typical of European palace gardens of the time: the Tiergarten (zoo), an orangery built around 1755 and a palm house that by 1882 replaced about ten smaller glass houses in the western part of the park. The main garden axis points to a 60-metre hill crowned since 1775 by the Gloriette. Other highlights include the Neptune Fountain and the Roman Ruin, a set of follies by Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg erected in 1778.

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Tickets

According to the palace operator, entry to the Palace Park is free of charge during opening hours. The special attractions inside the grounds are ticketed separately: the Privy Garden, the Orangery Garden and the Maze, as well as the Zoo, the Palm House and the Desert House each need their own admission ticket. The palace interior is also a separate ticket.

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