Being renovated.
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I’ve featured the Schönbrunn Palace countless times and I won’t tire…hope you don’t too. For the nine years that I have been in the city, there’s no year that I would visit and it’s always a pleasure no matter the season. Last month, a friend got married and I had the privilege to take the photos for the ceremony, we then went to the palace grounds to do more shots.
I went back last week as my daughter’s class had a special tour inside the palace, we were shown how the Rococo palace was when the emperors and empresses lived there. That’s extending from Empress Maria Theresa to her children and grandchildren. Most notable among the children was Franz Joseph I, who was born and who died in the palace, was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary among many titles for 68 years. Marie Antoinette was her daughter as well.
Though the palace is partly being renovated, we were still able to see the grandeur of the lives spent by royalty there…mind you, this is just their summer palace. 
There were 1,441 rooms…I think we went to about 20 only. ^_^ Taking photos inside the palace is prohibited, so I will vividly describe how it is inside on my next post.
The kids though a bit bored at first kept showing interest as our guide explained this and that…the gold-plated walls, the beautifully arranged tables and chairs, the paintings of all the children who prefer having gray hair all the time. They had fun dressing up in robes and I had fun photographing them as well.
Imagine how many windows there are.
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Wow! That’s a massive palace. I wonder how many people lived there and why did it have so many rooms.
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that is such a magnificent place to wander around, I hope I’d get the chance to visit this palace one day!
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The place is massive. They do live extravagant lives back then.
Wow nice Yellow palace! and 1,441 rooms! So many families can fit in that place, and you may end up not seeing each other for how many days with the size of it..
Love the architecture! Too bad they don’t allow visitors to take photos. I find European palaces and its luxurious interior mesmerizing. I love their ornate paintings & frames. I’m trying to collect various frames (the cheap kinds XD)
Beautiful building, beautiful Yellows!
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What’s it like to live there?
I’d never wished to live in that kind of place, but hey, everyone wants to experience, living in such massive 1,441 rooms!
(breathing in, and out) ^_^
wow that is very huge and beautiful structure.. hmmm.. I like this meme, I should join too soon..:)
that’s a very big place and it’s just for summer vacations… how lucky are other people to have such. do they have a specific rooms or they just choose the room they want to stay into? just kiddin… thanks for the info. Yahweh bless.
Wow! really nice… it will be nice to see this one in person.
I won’t get tired of that palace because it is a beauty to behold! Everything about it.
beautiful windows indeed! and yes there are many of them
wow so many windows… what a lovely place too…
I like to have big and many windows at home also. Yellow ochre is the interior color in our living room. It is bright and looks so spacious too.
What a great feeling to walk in the same steps and be in the same place where these historical and royal family used to live.
Just imagine the annual bill for cleaning all those windows! Beautiful place though.
huge palace! i wonder how would it be like to have a home with that many rooms? how can someone see each other?
lovely place! i hope that pne day i get to see one like this!
Europe has a lot of beautiful architecture! I’d love to visit places like this someday. The palace looks really nice! if that was just a summer palace with 1441 rooms I’m wondering how does it feels to be a royalty O.O Interesting post! (:
They really have a beautiful architecture and the place looks so peaceful.
Sometimes big areas entails huge expenses in terms of maintenance. But if the owner is rich, there’s no question about the expenses.
what a beautiful and huge building
Too much window, I doubt if the people got to see each other in a day hehe
Ang ganda. I’m used to seeing lumang structures na grey ang color. Feeling ko, kapag pipinturahan, mawawala na yung character ng building. OK naman din pala ang ganyang color
I think there’s no single palace like it in the Philippines.
How I wish I can see one in my lifetime. When kaya???
I wonder how long it would take to tour all of those rooms? And gold plated walls? WOW!
Hopefully I can come back and join your link up, i’ll be looking for some window photos that’s even remotely interesting 
Totally awesome! I wouldn’t get bored if I was there. I mean, I’m sure there are a lot of amazing things to see; even just walking where the royalty walked would probably amuse me. Haha. Although, the no-picture-taking rule was a downer.
that Schonbrunn Palace is so majestic! I would like to visit it someday
I love the way you took your photos. I hope I can travel and take pics someday.
I would imagine no less than two thousand windows! That sure is a massive summer place. Are ALL the walls really gold-plated? All that gold would be able to feed half of the indigents here in our country for months.
You take great shots. I’m curious though, why windows? I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with taking photos of windows but they’re not the usual subjects for photography.
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Eek! Hindi ako naka-abot! But I’ve been to Intramuros yesterday and I have interesting window shots. Hah!
Nice yellow palace and it’s neat looking ha. I assume the place is so clean and elegant.
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very interesting, I should start focusing on windows