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Roman Ruins (1778)
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The so-called Roman ruins at Schoenbrunn are a Romantic folly with the appearance of a half-buried palace with Corinthian columns dating from 1778. J. F. Hetzendorf von Hohenberg who designed it wanted to symbolize the fall of Greece before the might of the Roman Empire.

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