During your tour with an audio guide, you will explore the entire piano nobile of the palace: in addition to the private apartments of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, the south-facing reception rooms and the State Apartments you will also get to see the rooms occupied by Maria Theresa. Your tour with audio guide includes the apartments of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and the southern reception rooms, in front of which the palace garden spreads out.
Here you will see unique works of art with grande halls and exquisite cabinets that give an idea of courtly display at the time of Maria Theresa as well as insights into the monarch's personal tastes. On this guided tour, you can explore the magnificent Bergl Rooms on the ground floor, the ceremonial state rooms and the most precious 18th century chambers on the first floor and learn fascinating facts about the remarkable life of Empress Maria Theresa.
This guided tour includes the state rooms and private apartments of the imperial couple Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, plus a few glimpses behind the scenes. Here you can learn lots of interesting facts about the everyday life of the imperial children. How did they dress? How did they greet the emperor and empress? Culture and history in your own home! One year after the sudden death of Franz Stephan in , Maria Theresa commissioned a bronze bust of her much-loved husband.
Designed as the crowning element of the Great Parterre, and sited at the foot of the hill behind the palace is the Neptune Fountain, which was conceived as part of the overall design of the gardens and park commissioned by Maria Theresa in the s.
The Early Classicistic colonnaded Gloriette was built to Hohenberg's designs on the crest of the hill in Situated in the middle of the wooded hillside on the eastern side of the park is the Small Gloriette, a tower-like, two-story pavilion built between and and probably based on a design by court architect Nikolaus Pacassi.
