Aigen Palace

This guide to Aigen Palace in Salzburg opens with a lodge named Apollo, believed to have gathered in a hidden grotto behind the grounds in the late 1700s, trading Enlightenment ideas the church and court did not want spoken aloud. You'll hear how the estate itself began as a humble farmstead recorded in 1402, then grew grand after Levin von Mortaigne bought the land in 1614, and how later owners filled the park with temples, grottos, and hidden benches built purely to be admired. It follows the painters, composers, and even a Bavarian king who were drawn to that theatrical landscape over the centuries. Look for the stone outlook called the Kanzel, where Romantic painters once sketched the Alpine view.