Welcome to Prince Eugene of Savoy’s summer “cottage.” In the minds of its creators, it was regarded as the Mt. Olympus of Vienna. The Belvedere was built in the early 18th century by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, the architect of Graz’s Mariahilferkirche and rival of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Flushed

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The Upper Belvedere houses the Belvedere Museum, where Austrian art mixes with grand state rooms. Like the Louvre, you’re liable to run into a mass of people standing around one famous painting – in this case, Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss. To tell you true, I think you’ll find better art (and

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