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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 14:17:00

Built as the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the brilliant military commander who served the Habsburgs, the Belvedere is among the finest baroque ensembles in Europe. Designed by the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, it comprises two palaces, the Lower Belvedere completed by 1716 and the grander Upper Belvedere finished in 1723, linked by a formal terraced garden that descends between them. The Upper Belvedere, conceived less as a home than as a stage for receptions and displa...