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Not all those who wander are lost, but I certainly am!
Category: Destinations
The Louvre
If you love history, and you love art, then you’ll want to visit the Louvre. That said, if you want make the most of your time you will need a strategy!
Schloss Nymphenburg: Gardens
Much like Versailles, Nymphenburg was a palace with extensive grounds. As I have stated, the original building was a hunting lodge, so while other palaces might have manicured lawns, gardens, and orchards, Nymphenburg has remained more forested.
Schloss Nymphenburg: Badenburg
The Badenburg itself is located across the pond if you’re coming from the direction of the Great Cascade. The outer architecture is reminiscent of the rest of Nymphenburg, and the inner decorations are in the same Rococo style as the rest of the palace buildings, the Magdalenenklause not included, naturally.
Schloss Nymphenburg: Pagodenburg
Remember how Amalienburg had a kitchen with Chinoiserie in it? The Pagodenburg is nearly a whole building of it.
Schloss Nymphenburg: Magdalenenklause
Religion is also a very easy way to promote and hold power, and most European royal families were religions if not outright all Christians. Divine right to rule, and whatnot. Naturally, this means religion plays an important part of their daily life. Queue the Magdalenenklause.
Schloss Nymphenburg: Amalienburg
Karl had Amalienburg built and named after his wife, Maria Amalia. The Empress enjoyed hunting immensely, and the grounds of Nymphenburg were kept well stocked with pheasants and deer for the royal family to hunt.
Schloss Nymphenburg: Printzgarten
This building goes by many names. On google maps and the sign in front it’s called the Prinzengarten. Sometimes it is called the Kronprinzengarten, or Ludwigsgarten.
Schloss Nymphenburg: Carriage Museum
The Carriage Museum is a testament to the fact that people haven’t really changed, really, over any sort of time. For the most part, humans have always been the same. One doesn’t buy a fancy home only to have a beat up old car. Fancy house, fancy car. The same applies to ye ol’ days in the 16th and 17th century. And boy are these cars fancy!
Schloss Nymphenburg: Main Palace
When you arrive you are greeted with a canal which forms sort of a ‘grand mall’ entrance, with streets running on either side. These culminate into a semicircle with a pond in the middle and the palace set in the distance. If you came in via a hop-on-hop-off bus, you’ll be dropped off in this semi circle, greeted, in all likelihood, with a pond full of ducks, geese, seagulls, pigeons and swans.
November in Nymphenburg: Introduction
Welcome to November! Is it just me or has this year gone by super fast? Hopefully the day we can travel as we please again is hurtling towards us at the same speed, but until that time, let me introduce Schlosse Nymphenburg. I’ll be doing a whole month on it’s various buildings and gardens, so this is very much a brief intro to get the whole ‘bring good walking shoes!’ bit out of the way.
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