Hellbrunner Allee
Arrow-straight carriage avenue laid out in the sixteen-hundreds, repeatedly replanted after storms.
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This guide to Hellbrunner Allee in Salzburg starts with what's missing overhead: not one tree planted by Prince-Archbishop Markus Sittikus, who laid out this arrow-straight avenue between 1613 and 1615 so he could ride from his Residenz to his new pleasure palace at Hellbrunn without a single bend. It follows how fashions and a Christmas storm in 1954 reshaped what grows along the route, from the archbishop's original oak, poplar and beech to the linden and chestnut favored a century later. Look closely at the trunks lining your path as you walk beneath them.
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