Tuesday 21 May 2013

Prince Eugene's Belvedere
Views 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

9 comments:

  1. Beautiful set of images.

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  2. i feel as if i'm right there, sugar! thank you! xooxo

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  3. What a brilliant view and the blue, blue sky and the green of foilage...wonderful~

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    1. The last of the night's rain clouds had just done a briliant job clearing the air! ;-)

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  4. looks like a lovely time ....I like the new look of the blog. Hope you are doing well these days!

    Rosemary

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  5. Apparently it is good to be a prince. :)

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