Salzburg - Mirabell Gardens Mirabellgarten

To the south of the Schloss Mirabell stretches the Mirabellgarten (also accessible from the Makartplatz), an excellent example of Baroque landscape gardening laid out about 1690, probably by J. B. Fischer von Erlach, with terraces, marble statues and fountains. The former aviary (Vogelhaus, c. 1700) is now used for exhibitions, and at the southwestern corner of the gardens stands a small open air theater. Adjoining the Mirabellgarten to the west, on an old bastion, is the Bastionsgarten or Zwerglgarten ("Dwarfs' Garden"), with original figures of dwarfs.