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Hellbrunn

Schloss Hellbrunn

Good for: having a picnic, families with kids, all who like history

  • Address
    • Fürstenweg 37
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 82 03 72-0
  • Price
    • adult/child/family €8.50/3.80/21.50
  • Hours
    • 9am-4.30pm Apr & Oct, 9am-5.30pm May & Jun, 9am-10pm Jul & Aug

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Lonely Planet review for Schloss Hellbrunn

An archbishop with a wicked sense of humour, Markus Sittikus built the yellow-painted Schloss Hellbrunn in the 17th century as a pleasure palace and an escape vault from his functions at Residenz. The Italianate villa became a wild retreat for rulers of state who flocked here to eat, drink and generally be merry. It was a Garden of Eden to all who beheld its exotic fauna, citrus trees and trick fountains – designed to sober up quaffing clerics without dampening their spirits. Domenico Gisberti, poet to the court of Munich, once penned: ‘I see the epitome of Venice in these waters, Rome reduced to a brief outline.’