Palm House
Vast wrought-iron and glass conservatory of three climate zones sheltering thousands of exotic plant species.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Palm House in Vienna opens on a bitterly cold February day in 1945, when a glass palace built for the tropics met the war. It looks back to the Emperor Franz Joseph's opening in 1882 and to the builder who signed his ironwork, then follows the house through its postwar patching and long years behind closed doors. Best heard walking slowly under the arches, with an eye on the metalwork.
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