Schwetzingen Palace Gardens 🇩🇪 (2025-07) en

Schwetzingen Palace Gardens are a cultural heritage site of European significance: more than 100 sculptures are scattered throughout this wonderful, and at times surprising, landscape. An assortment of whimsical buildings lend an exotic touch. The Apollotempel (temple of Apollo), a small, round building, houses a statue of the ancient Greek god of light and the arts, playing the lyre. The Badehaus (bath house) is a summerhouse with its own garden, modelled on an Italian villa. And, most spectacularly, in the Türkischer Garten (Turkish gardens), there is a mosque designed by Nicolas de Pigage – the largest structure of its kind in a German garden. Ornamented with oriental details, the late-Baroque building was purely decorative and served no religious purpose.
Compare some old postcard images from early 1900s with today's sights.

Sights of Schwetzingen Palace, Palace Gardens:
► Castle east façade as seen from the entrance
► Gardens Entrance
► Temple of Minerva
► Mosque
► Temple of Mercury
► Rhine Group
► Danube Group
► Castle west façade as seen from the garden
► Apollo Temple
► Dolphin Fountain
► Bathhouse
► Illusion (End of the World)
► Roman Water Fort
► Temple of Botany
► Northern Circle Hall
► Bacchus Children
► Deer Group
► Arion Fountain

Music:
Go Baroque by Freedom Trail Studio
Sarabande by Joel Cummins
Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions
Holiday Brass Ensemble by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions
Bourree by Joel Cummins
A Baroque Letter by Aaron Kenny
from YouTube Audio Library

Aerial footage:
Heidelberg Region and its Castles by JL Switzerland
https://youtu.be/OCqi9RFJP7Q?si=M-3TH35NTJWju1bH
@JLSwitzerland

Narration:
Google AI Studio

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Old postcards
04:08 Slide show
12:34 Outro

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