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Located on the outskirts of Vienna, the Baroque Schönbrunn Palace was completed in the early 1700s and later converted into a summer residence by Empress Maria Theresa.
Highlights of a tour through the palace's 40 rooms open to the public are the Royal apartments, the Grand Gallery with its ornate ceiling paintings, the Room of the Million, and Maria's beauty salon. Theresa with carved and gilded rosewood panels. You'll also see the spectacular Hall of Mirrors, with its mirrors framed in Rococo gold. Behind the 1,441-room palace is a 500-acre park and garden, also in the 18th-century Baroque style.
Your visit to Schönbrunn should include the many attractions that span these grounds: the formal gardens; a maze; Palm House filled with tropical and exotic plants and butterflies; an Alpine garden with a farm; Europe's oldest zoo; and the Classic Gloriette, a large marble structure perched on a hill above the gardens.
A carriage museum in the former Winter Riding School displays dozens of historic state coaches and snowmobiles. The entire palace and garden complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.