Hellbrunn Palace
Trip Start
Sep 09, 2005
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Trip End
Ongoing
Salzburg,
Austria
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Read on, this sounds like someone I would have as a friend!
The castle famous for its watergames in the grounds. These games were conceived by Markus Sittikus, a man with a keen sense of humour, as a series of practical jokes to be performed on guests. Notable features include stone seats around a stone dining table through which a water conduit sprays water into the seat of the guests when the mechanism is activated. However, one seat lacks a conduit: that of the Archbishop. Other features are a mechanical, water-operated and music playing theatre built in 1750 showing various professions at work, a grotto and a crown being pushed up and down by a jet of water, symbolising the rise and fall of power. It should be noted that at all of these games there is always a spot which is never wet: that where the Archbishop stood or sat, which is today occupied by the tour guide.
The main entrance to the palace. Quite a place.
There is aa mechanical exhibit where all the characters move and do things. It is all run under the set by mechanics run by water. I have a movie I will insert later.
During the tour the guide turns these fountains on an off. Usually on when we are directly in the path of the water! It was a glorious day here though, not a cloud in the sky so it was a lot of fun!
I finally found the gazebo from the Sound of Music. Then I found out it was built by the movie company and they just left it in Salzburg!! 
Inside the palace. This was the music room. It is difficult to believe that it is over 400 years old! 
