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Inside Schönbrunn Palace Large Rosa Room
Landscape scenes of Switzerland
The Rococo decorative schemes devised by Nikolaus and northern Italy by Joseph
Rosa give this room its name.
Pacassi dominate the Schönbrunn state rooms, where The paintings are surrounded
white panelling, often adorned with gilded ornamental by Rococo gilded panels.
framework, tends to prevail. The rooms vary from extremely
sumptuous – such as the Millionenzimmer, panelled with
fig wood inlaid with Persian miniatures – to the quite plain
apartments occupied by Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

. Round Chinese Cabinet
Maria Theresa used this room for private
discussions with her State Chancellor.
The walls are adorned with lacquered
panels and vases.

. Great Gallery
Once the venue for imperial
banquets, the gallery was
used for state receptions
until 1994. Breakfast Room
The imperial family’s
breakfast room has white
Hidden staircase which wood panelling inlaid with
leads to the apartment of the appliqué floral designs
State Chancellor on the floor worked by Maria Theresa
above and was used for and her daughters.
access to secret conferences.

The Blue Staircase (so-called due to its
original decorative scheme) leads to the
entrance for guided tours of state rooms.

Blue Chinese Salon
The room where Karl I abdicated
in 1918 has hand-painted Maria Louisa and the
wallpaper with blue insets Room Guide King of Rome
showing Chinese scenes. The state rooms open to the public After Napoleon’s fall from power,
Napoleon Room are on the first floor. The suite of rooms his young son by his Austrian
to the right of the Blue Staircase were
Millionenzimmer occupied by Franz Joseph and Elisabeth. wife Maria Louisa was kept a
Two galleries divide these from rooms virtual prisoner in Schönbrunn
Palace. In 1832 at the age of 21,
in the east wing, which include Maria after a lonely childhood, he
Theresa’s bedroom and rooms used by Portrait of Napoleon died of consumption in what
Grand Duke Karl. Two guided tours, the
Memorial Imperial and the Grand Tour, take is known as the Napoleon
Room visitors through several rooms. Room. He was called the Duke
of Reichstadt, or the King of
Rome, and the Memorial Room
First floor Key contains his portrait as a five-
Franz Joseph’s apartments year-old and his effigy. There
Empress Elisabeth’s apartments is also a stuffed crested larch
. Vieux-Lacque Room Ceremonial and reception rooms under a glass dome; the unhappy
During her widowhood, Maria Maria Theresa’s rooms boy claimed that he never had
Theresa lived in this room, which a single friend in the palace
is decorated with exquisite Grand Duke Karl’s rooms Portrait of Maria Louisa apart from this bird.
oriental lacquered panels. Main entrance Non-exhibition space

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