Schloss Benrath
Pink baroque pleasure palace hiding four storeys and eighty rooms behind a low facade, set in parkland.
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This guide to Schloss Benrath in Düsseldorf starts with one small architectural secret tucked between two eighteenth-century bathrooms. It follows Elector Carl Theodor and his wife and cousin Elisabeth Auguste, the mirror-image palace their architect Nicolas de Pigage designed for them, and a marriage that was coming apart while it rose. Listen from the front lawn, facing the facade, which hides more than it shows.
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