Baroque Meets Rococo
May 07, 2020
3 minutes
Credit Images: ©Palais Liechtenstein
Located in the heart of the city of Vienna, the Liechtenstein City Palace is a setting of opulence, where Baroque and Rococo styles merge in an architectural marvel without precedence in Austria. Work on the palace was commissioned by Count Dominik Andreas Kaunitz to Enrico Zuccalli and began in 1691. Three years later, the unfinished building was purchased by Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein, whose family still owns the palace to this day, and completed by Domenico Martinelli. The palace was conceived as the
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