Historical landmark
Gloriette Schönbrunn
Gloriettestraße, 1130 Wien
Hilltop garden temple with a triumphal-arch centerpiece, an imperial café, and panoramic city views.
Atop Schönbrunn's palace gardens in Vienna, this triumphal-arch temple was Empress Maria Theresa's 1775 victory monument after decades of war, raised by architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg and carved with trophies by Johann Baptist von Hagenauer. The guide traces how an open-air lookout later became Emperor Franz Joseph's private breakfast room above the gardens, before a 1945 bomb tore through the very structure built to celebrate peace. Look for the eagle perched on a globe crowning the roofline.
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