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The Belvedere Garden is located close to Vienna's Downtown in the 3rd district Landstraße. On the property, both Upper Belvedere (behind the photograph) housing the Belvedere Museum and the Lower Belvedere which can be seen in the center of the photograph at the end of the gravel path.

The garden used to have a scenery enclosed by clipped hedges, even as the Belvedere was being built, in the formal French manner with gravelled walks and jeux d'eau by Dominique Girard, who had trained in the gardens of Versailles as a pupil of André Le Nôtre. Its great water basin (which takes up 2/3 of this photograph) in the upper parterre and the stairs and cascades peopled by nymphs and goddesses that links upper and lower parterres survive, but the patterned bedding has long been grassed over; it is currently being restored.

Description

The Belvedere Garden is located close to Vienna's Downtown in the 3rd district Landstraße. On the property, both Upper Belvedere (behind the photograph) housing the Belvedere Museum and the Lower Belvedere which can be seen in the center of the photograph at the end of the gravel path.

The garden used to have a scenery enclosed by clipped hedges, even as the Belvedere was being built, in the formal French manner with gravelled walks and jeux d'eau by Dominique Girard, who had trained in the gardens of Versailles as a pupil of André Le Nôtre. Its great water basin (which takes up 2/3 of this photograph) in the upper parterre and the stairs and cascades peopled by nymphs and goddesses that links upper and lower parterres survive, but the patterned bedding has long been grassed over; it is currently being restored.