Volksgarten
Rose garden and neoclassical temple laid out over a bastion blasted apart by Napoleon.
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This guide to Volksgarten in Vienna traces a marble statue Napoleon never got to keep, Antonio Canova's Theseus Slaying the Centaur, and the temple the Habsburgs built in the 1820s to house it on the site of a bastion the French blew up. You'll hear how architect Peter von Nobile modeled that temple on ancient Athens, and what happened when the statue that gave it its purpose was hauled away decades later. Listen as you stand facing the temple's columns.
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