Belvedere Palace

Prince Eugene Of Savoy'S Summer Palace, Built 1714 23 By Lukas Von Hildebrandt, Part Of The UNESCO Historic Centre Of Vienna. The Upper Belvedere Houses Gustav Klimt'S The Kiss And The World'S Largest Klimt Collection. The 1955 Austrian State Treaty Was Signed In The Marble Hall. · Vienna, Vienna

The Belvedere is a Baroque palace complex in Vienna's third district, built in the early 1700s for Prince Eugene of Savoy. It is two palaces, the Upper and the Lower Belvedere, joined by a long French-style garden of fountains, clipped yews and gravel paths on a slope. The Upper Belvedere holds the main art collection, led by Gustav Klimt's The Kiss (1908) and Judith, with works by Schiele, Kokoschka and Monet. The Marble Hall is where the Austrian State Treaty was signed on 15 May 1955, ending the Allied occupation, and the foreign minister Figl showed the document from the balcony. The Lower Belvedere and the Orangery hold temporary exhibitions, and the 21er Haus has been merged into the wider museum. The honest picture is that the art is excellent and varied, the Upper Belvedere is crowded, and the palace is smaller than Schonbrunn, which has its own entry. Trams D and 71 stop nearby, so it is easy to reach, and the gardens are free to enter and a pleasant walk, but the rooms need a ticket booked for a time slot.

Baroque palace complex of two buildings, the Upper and Lower Belvedere, in Vienna's third district, about 1 km south-east of the old town, with formal gardens between them, Vienna, Vienna, Austria

The Belvedere is generally open daily, with the Upper Belvedere and temporary exhibitions on slightly different hours, and one weekday with LATE opening on some weeks. The gardens open to walk all day and are FREE. Some rooms CLOSE for events or exhibition changes; check the day before.

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