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The Orangery, the Palace Stables, and two Baroque palaces—the Upper and Lower Belvedere—make up the famous Belvedere building complex Vienna, Austria. The buildings are located in the third district of the city, on the southeast corner of the city centre, in a Baroque park setting. The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, the Belvedere museum, is currently housed there. Baroque sculptures, magnificent wrought iron gates, and ornamental tiered fountains and cascades adorn the grounds, which are situated on a gradual gradient. Prince Eugene of Savoy used the Baroque castle complex as a summer residence. When the Belvedere was constructed, Vienna—then the seat of the Habsburg dynasty and the imperial capital—saw a surge in building activity. Following the victorious end of a string of wars against the Ottoman Empire by the commander-in-chief, Prince Eugene of Savoy, there was a time of prosperity. Prince Eugene bought a large piece of property south of the Rennweg, the main road to Hungary, on November 30, 1697, one year after work on the Stadtpalais began. Immediately, plans for the Belvedere garden complex were created. Instead of appointing Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, who designed his Stadtpalais, as the principal architect for this project, the prince selected Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. In 1702, Hildebrandt, whom the general had met during a military expedition in Piedmont, had already constructed Ráckeve Palace for him on the Danube River island of Csepel, which is south of Budapest. In his service, he subsequently constructed a great many other edifices. He worked as a court architect in Vienna starting in 1696, according to documents. The area was totally undeveloped when the prince was seeking to purchase the land outside of Vienna for his Belvedere project; it would have been the perfect location for a summer residence and landscaped garden. Prince Eugene requested a building inspection on July 5, 1713, indicating that the Lower Belvedere-construction had begun by 1712. The gravelled walkways and clipped hedges of Belvedere Gardens were part of their formal French design. Numerous mythological allusions in the gardens hint at the ascent of Prince Eugene, with a sculpture program that associates him with the god Apollo. Although there is still a large water basin in the upper parterre, as well as stairs and cascades that connect the upper and lower parterres and are decorated by nymphs and goddesses, the patterned bedding has long since been grassed over and is presently undergoing restoration. The Canaletto Blick, a well-known viewpoint of the city centre of Vienna, is shown in the painting View of Vienna from the Belvedere by Bernardo Bellotto. When it comes to changing the skyline of the old city centre, this vista from the Upper Belvedere Palace, with the Gardens in the foreground, is still a major factor in urban planning deliberations. #History #Architecture

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