The Schönbrunn Palace - © Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, 2009
I've wanted to visit the Schönbrunn palace (or castle as they call it here) for a long time. The palace is very big but it's not that astonishing. There is an obsession in Vienna with emperor Franz Joseph and Sissi and that fairy tale they imagine thier life was. The palace is full of photos of the old emperor and also some paintings showing him as a young person he might have been a long long time ago. Sissi is everywhere. She was crazy enough to wake up early in the morning in Hofburg and ride her horse until Schönbrunn wearing nothing but her sleeping clothes. Some of the furniture has got an awful taste, specially the fabrics with which some chairs are covered. Those who like death people can see the bed where Franz Joseph passed away and also the young Napoleon II, who was taken to Schönbrunn with his mother after Napoleon had fallen. However there is a very beautiful thing inside the palace: the bed of emperess Maria Theresia and her husband Franz Stephan. The best thing in Schönbrunn are the gardens, the beautiful roses and the pavilion on a small hill from where the view over Vienna is superb.
Sigmund Freud's house was another place I wanted to visit. It is placed in Bergasse 19 and it's the house where Freud lived between 1891 and 1938. The museum has a long story. At is opening in 1971, the museum was limited to few rooms of the former office, because the rest of the places continued to be inhabited by renters who had moved in after Freud's exile. Just on the 80's it was possible to acquire the entire apartment rented by Freud. The most interesting about the house is the house itself. Unfortunatelly just the hall and the waiting room keep some of the original appearance. The walls of the office and studio are covered with reproductions of photos and documents about Freud and psychoanalysis. There were some designers carrying out the concept of the museum. Unfortunatelly, it would be more interesting to see something like an house than simply pictures and documents you can search on internet.
The day ended in Karlsplatz. In Kunsthalle, of course...
Pavilion of Gloriette - © Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, 2009
Freud Museum, at Bergasse 19 - © Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, 2009
Sigmund Freud's house was another place I wanted to visit. It is placed in Bergasse 19 and it's the house where Freud lived between 1891 and 1938. The museum has a long story. At is opening in 1971, the museum was limited to few rooms of the former office, because the rest of the places continued to be inhabited by renters who had moved in after Freud's exile. Just on the 80's it was possible to acquire the entire apartment rented by Freud. The most interesting about the house is the house itself. Unfortunatelly just the hall and the waiting room keep some of the original appearance. The walls of the office and studio are covered with reproductions of photos and documents about Freud and psychoanalysis. There were some designers carrying out the concept of the museum. Unfortunatelly, it would be more interesting to see something like an house than simply pictures and documents you can search on internet.
Inside the Freud Museum- © Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, 2009
The day ended in Karlsplatz. In Kunsthalle, of course...
© Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, 2009
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