Donaupark
Sprawling riverside garden park built for a nineteen sixty-four world garden show, with a lake, artificial hill and towering observation deck.
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This guide to Vienna's Donaupark uncovers what lay beneath its lawns before 1964: a military rifle range, wartime executions, and a ramshackle riverside settlement called Bretteldorf built on a garbage dump. It follows the frantic two-year push to turn that scarred ground into a garden for the 1964 Vienna International Garden Show, complete with an artificial hill and a purpose-built lake. Listen for how many visitors rode the chairlift above the flower beds that summer.
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