Author: Stenette

Of Tress and Their Keepers. Discovering the Complex Heritage of Belvedere Park
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July 19, 2022July 19, 2022Gardens, parks & cemeteries, Germany, Modern Times

Of Tress and Their Keepers. Discovering the Complex Heritage of Belvedere Park

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Belvedere Castle, the Baroque French-style summer residence of Duke Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar and his successors, was built over a period of twenty years in the early to mid-18th-century. Today the Castle-complex, its parks and gardens, form part of the UNESCO World Heritage site “Classical Weimar” and is managed by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Weimar Classical Foundation).