Inside Student BlogsThe Green Lung of AustriaVienna, Spring 2012
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- Our first stop for the Styria trip was the Open Air Museum, which displayed 80 different rural buildings from all regions of Austria.
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- Many of the buildings in the open air museum could be entered, or at least explored up-close.
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- If you were lucky, some Austrians would be dressed up and would chat with you about some of the history – so it was really like Conner Prairie a bit, back in Indiana.
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- A shot looking down on own helix of a double helix staircase build in the 1400s – our tourguide claimed its formation is completely unique to Graz, Austria.
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- The insides of another beautiful, baroque church in Graz.
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- In the courtyard of some dorms in Graz, there’s a sculpture of a snowman and his melted friend, and the snowman can see the looming clock in the reflection of the puddle-!
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- Schloss Eggenberg is a castle whose numbers are based on units of time – the entire building has symbolism.
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- The medieval section of this castle was started in 1460, and then it was expanded to the baroque structure in the mid-1600s.
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- The Planetary Room serves as the beginning and the end for the 24 state rooms within the castle, and is also the palace’s most beautiful room.
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- A curious structure tucked away in the court yard, it appears to be a small grotto beneath Eggenberg Castle.
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