Schlosspark, the princes' garden

Behind the palace stretches one of the great 19th-century landscape gardens in Austria, of almost 50 hectares. The prettiest part is the Leopoldine temple on its pond, from 1824, with a copy of the statue that Antonio Canova made of Princess Leopoldine Esterházy. There is also the orangery, the engine house, where the monarchy's first Watt steam engine ran and where there is now a café, and at the top an obelisk 26 metres high. It is free and open all year; you enter through the Joseph-Haydn-Gasse, the Bergstraße or the Glorietteallee.