Палацовий парк Palace Park

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The small park is adjacent to the Hofburg. It is called Burggarten, ie Palace Park. It used to be the personal park of the emperor, and now everyone can come to it. People in this park can relax both on benches, which are enough under the trees, and just on the lawns. In the park there are monuments to the emperors - the lead of France and Stephen - the first equestrian statue in Vienna and the bronze of Franz Joseph. But the most popular is the white marble monument to Mozart, about which there is a separate page on the site. There is a small pond in the park, which decorates the fountain "Hercules". Next to the park - the famous house of butterflies. On an area of ​ ​.280 square meters created conditions of tropical forests - air temperature of about 26 degrees, humidity - about 80%. About 500 butterflies of 40 different species live and fly freely on the tropical plants. The building was built in 1902-1906 in the Art Nouveau style designed by architect Friedrich Oman.
Its length is 126 meters. Decorative elements of the central part (vases, sculptures) were made by sculptor Josef Vaclav Myslbek.