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Walking routes · Vienna

Schönbrunn: palace, Gloriette and Palm House

Through the Schönbrunn park from the palace courtyard up the garden axis to the Gloriette, then down to the Palm House.

Best time: Morning (palace tours first), then the park; the climb to the Gloriette is steady but short.

The route, stop by stop

  1. 1
    Schönbrunn Palace

    State rooms tour and the main parterre. 90 min

    The Habsburgs' main summer residence: a 1,441-room Baroque palace whose garden axis climbs to the Gloriette, which has crowned the hill since 1775; Maria Theresa received the…

  2. 2
    Gloriette

    Climb to the 1775 hilltop pavilion for the view back over the palace; there is a café. 30 min

  3. 3
    Palm House (Palmenhaus)

    The park's great glasshouse, built by 1882. 30 min

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