Castle Eggenberg entered the UNESCO World Heritage

And ‘one of the greatest masterpieces of architecture of the whole Austria just come in, in law, UNESCO World Heritage: This is the Castle Eggerberg, A few miles from Granz. Surrounded by a huge park of 90,000 square meters, within which stands the beautiful Garden of the Planets, with a beautiful rose garden, the castle is, with its decorations, the entire universe with a structure very complex and intricate. If you have then planned a trip to Austria, this might be a good opportunity to discover a jewel of world.

The name Eggerberg is in itself symbolic: it means 365 windows. And this castle has 365 windows, as the days of the year, has 31 rooms on each floor, as the greatest of these days in a month, has four corner towers, just as the number of seasons, and 24 rooms for the party just as 12 hours in a day for each side of the building, indicating the day and night. But not only have the 24 rooms in all 52 windows, just as the number of weeks in a year, and if these are added the 8 windows in Hall of Planets, The nerve center of the residence, you will reach a total of 60 as the seconds in a minute or minutes in an hour. Not only that, but the 7 days of the week, as well as 12 months of the year, are the protagonists of the Hall of Planets.

It is not the first time we have the opportunity to talk about a castle are many, and for sale in Europe, as the beautiful residence in Belgium GhellinckBut it is the first time that we speak of a castle UNESCO Heritage of such beauty and complexity allegorical. The work was built between 1625 and 1631, commissioned by Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, Director of Archduke Ferdinand II of Habsburg. The numbers that characterized this true work of art are impressive: one square kilometer of frescoes, 2.5 miles of stucco and gilding, 450 chairs, 565 square feet of fine marble floors, 173 doors and it took 42 years to conclude decorations. A real castle of luxury but above all a great work of art UNESCO heritage.