Hello everyone! After having some trouble with peakd, things are finally back to normal and I can continue sharing posts about my Vienna trip that happened at the beginning of March. In today's post I will share some photos of the Liechtenstein castle, first stop of our "Vienna palaces" guided tour even though this is obviously a castle but I'll explain more about that in this post so let's get right into it...
We arrived at the Liechtenstein castle around 10am on a windy and quite cold Sunday morning. Our tour guide started talking about this castle and its history on our bus ride from the hotel and continued once we got to the castle. After that we had some time to walk and look around and take photos before leaving. We didn't go on a tour inside because of various reasons but that's okay...
Our tour guide told us that this castle is usually not on the list to visit for Serbian tourists mainly because of its location. As we found our Austria is made of nine states, Vienna being one of them and this castle is located is Lower Austria state (bordering Vienna) so when tourists visit Vienna, it's not really on their way and they mainly focus on many attractions in or nearby the city of Vienna. However, the castle was not that far from our hotel so they made it part of the "Vienna palaces" tour which is actually so nice and I'm glad I got to see something outside of the Vienna city.
Liechtenstein castle is located near a small town called Maria Enzersdorf and it was originally built in the 12th century. It was destroyed a couple of times before it was rebuilt. I am always amazed when I see something like this sustain over time and I try to imagine people standing/walking/living there over the years, right there where I was standing at that moment. I try to imagine different scenarios and life stories that happened during centuries and then I got brought back to the present moment where we were taking selfies with our smartphones - two different worlds in one spot.
As the name suggests, this castle was owned by the House of Liechtenstein but there was a period of time when it wasn't theirs before getting it back who later even got their own (micro)state with the same name. Nowadays, the castle hosts a film festival and scenes for a few movies were taken here.
