Schönbrunn
It's the most popular tourist attraction in Vienna, hosting well over 2 million visitors each year. What many forget is that the golden and glorious palace itself is but one of many attractions in the Schönbrunn complex.
Apart from the extensive parks and gardens, there's a major zoo, the Gloriette, palm house, desert house, carriage museum, Christmas market and more...
Read on to discover all the details of this World Heritage site. Or get a multimedia flavor of the place with a photo slideshow or interactive map.
Schönbrunn palace
Interactive map
Photo slideshow
Palace history
Inside the palace
Christmas market
Vienna zoo
Gloriette
Wagenburg
Palmenhaus
Wüstenhaus
Roman ruins
Japanese garden
Children's museum
Getting there
In a city of top tourist attractions, Schloss Schönbrunn — the summer palace — is the undisputed queen of the sightseeing tours. >> Read more
Although the palace is now thoroughly embedded within the city confines, for most of its life it was a country retreat, located well outside the city walls. >> Read more
Anyone wishing to see the interiors of Schönbrunn Palace has to go on a guided tour or buy an entrance ticket for the self-guided equivalent. >> Read more
Each Advent, the forecourt in front of the Palace is turned into a Christmas Market of the better sort. >> Read more
The oldest working zoo in the world. Learn more about opening times, animal highlights, its history and the panda bears! >> Read more
Rumor has it that this hilltop construction was built solely to improve the view from the palace windows. >> Read more
If you want to experience just how ostentatious and removed-from-reality Imperial life was, drop in to the Wagenburg. >> Read more
The Palmenhaus in the Schönbrunn Palace gardens is one of the last of its kind; a giant steel and glass construction over 110m long, 28m wide and over 25m high. >> Read more
One of the advantages of being an Emperor is that when you start to worry about whether your houseplants will survive a cold Austrian winter, a purpose-built hothouse is a mere snap of the fingers away. >> Read more
A classic architectural landscape that might just be too good to be true. >> Read more
Back in 1913, the Schönbrunn palace gardeners built a small Japanese garden in the park which became disused and overgrown until a recent renovation. >> Read more
For those who wonder what life was like as a little prince or princess in the days of the Hapsburg Empire. >> Read more
The palace, gardens and related sights are well-served by public transport. >> Read more