Prince Eugene's BelvedereViews from the Upper Belvedere

Belvedere
A structure designed to command a view
In Italian "belvedere" means "beautiful view"


The Belvedere
Prince Eugene's Summer Residence
Looking over the Upper Palace's gardens
towards the Lower Belvedere Palace
and the city beyond -
in the center, the spire of St. Stephen's Cathedral


Photographed the morning
of 18 May 2013
Images and Text © by Merisi

Link to previous posts -> Views from the Belvedere

Empress Elisabeth of AustriaMemorial Garden at Volksgarten Park

Elisabeth of Austria
Memorial by Hans Bitterlich
Volksgarten


Hidden away in the northern-most corner of the Volksgarten Park -
in the Art Noveau inspired gardens by architect Friedrich Ohmann -


lies a marble terraced memorial garden
for Elisabeth of Austria, the empress who tragically died
at the hands of a vile assassin in 1898


Photographed 19 May 2013
Images and Text © by Merisi

Peony DaysAlpine Garden of the Belvedere

Peony
Alpine Garden at the Belvedere

The Alpine Garden of the Belvedere
was created in 1803, at the suggestion of Archduke Johann.
It was the first alpine garden and to this day
thousands of alpine plants and flowers
greet visitors who find the small gate
a few hundred feet from the southern entrance
of the gardens of the Upper Belvedere Palace
Photographed 25 May 2012 at 5:15PM
85 mm lens
Images and Text © by Merisi

Walking down the Strudlhof StepsOn a Sunday Morning in May

I fell out of bed
as soon as the sun rose


Oh well, I exaggerate -
even though, early it was!


I decided to visit the Strudlhof Steps,
once again - I always feel at peace


walking down those stairs,
like so many before me,


and, indeed, it felt
like coming home, again


When I reached the bottom landing,
 I looked back up,
and spied a flower thief in red,


stealing what was meant
to last the summer, for you and me and everyone
coming after us, climbing up or down
those precious steps in Alsergrund

Photographed before 8 AM
on 19 May 2013 - 50mm lens
Images and Text © by Merisi

What to do on a rainy Day in ViennaMay Showers at Prince Eugene's Belvedere

A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel --


A Resonance of Emerald --
A Rush of Cochineal --


And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head --


The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning's Ride -


Poem by Emily Dickinson

Photographed on this morning
of 18 May 2013 between showers -
and imaginary mail delivery -
at Prince Eugene's Upper Belvedere
and the Belvedere's Alpine Garden
Images © by Merisi

Under the Viennese SunThe Goose Girl Fountain at Rahlstiege

Looking Up
Blue blue Viennese sky and
a scaffolded building at Mariahilfer Strasse
next to the Rahl Steps


The Goose Girl
guarding her geese in the
late afternoon sunshine


Goose Girl Fountain and
balustrade on top of the Rahl Steps


Leaving Mariahilfer Straße
walking across Babenbergerstraße


Gänsemädchenbrunnen
Goose Girl Fountain by Anton Paul Wagner
Rahlstiege at Mariahilfer Strasse
5th District (Mariahilf)

Photographed 15 May 2013
Images and Text © by Merisi

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