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For those of you, who have not heard about the garden palace, I repeat: The Liechtenstein garden palace in the Rossau (meaning ‘horse meadow’, today a part of Vienna’s 9th district) was built under Prince Johann Adam Andreas I of Liechtenstein (1657–1712). He was one of the greatest patrons of architecture in his time. Initially, it was Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach who was to design his garden palace. Later, the Prince chose the Bologna-trained Domenico Egidio Rossi. After his death, Rossi’s concept was taken up by the architect Domenico Martinelli from Lucca, who eventually finalized the idea of a mighty Roman palace. Together with the Belvedere gardens, the originally Baroque Liechtenstein gardens were the most impressive example of Baroque garden art in Vienna. With their sculptures by Giovanni Giuliani and their large variety of ornamental plantings, they constituted a self-contained horticultural cosmos that was reconfigured into a vast English-style landscape garden in the 19th century. On this image you can see the second building, through the trees of the park.