After visiting Mirabelgarten, Hohensalzburg Fortress, Mozart's house museum and a wonderful dinner, I decided to ride to Helbrun. I read and heard something about this palace and park complex in the vicinity of Salzburg, it remains to see it with my own eyes. Which I did.
Helbrunn (with it. - "healing water") - the former summer residence of Archbishop Marcus Sittikus, who is related to the Medici family, was built (1612-1619) on the model of Roman villas in the Italian style for hunting, recreation and entertainment. The courtyard in front of the palace seems to have been created for magnificent receptions and princely festivities. Celebrations and entertainment events are held here today. So the next marriage again (well, what to do?) Prevented me from getting into the palace.
Having bought a ticket, she joined the motley company of a multilingual (except Russian) audience. Inspection of the fountains for some reason without fail involves an excursion (if you want, if you don’t want, it’s the tenth thing), it’s supposed to be an excursion. And the most interesting is in English! And since my knowledge of this is minimal, I practically did not understand anything said. In general, you can guess about something and so, I got some information from other sources, but God himself ordered photographing there, this activity is not only forbidden, but rather encouraged. As much as you want, even under the spray of fountains.
And amusing fountains, like 4 centuries ago, are the “highlight” of the program. There are fish in ponds of noble breeds.
Theater scenes in the prince's park in its original form, they have not changed since the beginning of the XVII century.
At the pool, a curly river god, as if taking an invisible part in water fun.
It was hardly possible to refuse an archbishop an invitation to take a seat at the princely table. However, this pleasure was probably brought only to the owner. Imagine guests sitting in a festive dress sitting at a festive table, and suddenly, unexpectedly, by the secret sign of the lord of the jet, they shoot at a thick finger directly from stone stools. But no one dares to rise from the table, according to etiquette, before his Eminence makes it. The archbishop himself sat, amused himself, and was in no hurry to get up (his stool remained dry).
The fountains - “crackers" and the amusing palace were built by the court architect Santino Solari.
There are 5 grottoes in the basement of the palace. You cannot refuse a fantasy to a master. Stone grottoes are full of mysteries and mystery. And water can splash in them from everywhere: from the ceiling, from walls, from holes in the floor, from deer horns.
And today, on a walk along the princely path, you, like visitors of a spiritual pastor once, can be doused with jets of water at any moment, whether along a stream or near a stone monster, a mythological deity or a fantastic creature, for whom you will linger for a moment. And there are a lot of such people in the park.
The prince-archbishop, walking with his guests, not only talked about the precariousness of human fate and the ephemerality of the world, but also showed them outlandish mechanisms in his park. For example, a large mechanical theater, built in 1750 on the site of the former Forge Grotto, representing the life of a small town in miniature. Water still sets in motion figures of people of different classes and occupations (of which there are 256) and a water organ that plays a melody of artisans, which drowns out the rattle of gears.
Towards the end of the tour, having wet a lot, they said goodbye to us and sent us home - to a large stall, to the zoo, wherever you want. Fortunately, the sun scorched mercilessly (+ 33 °), drying everything in a matter of minutes. And I went on.